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Torturable vs Torturous - What's the difference?

torturable | torturous |

As adjectives the difference between torturable and torturous

is that torturable is capable of, or suitable for, being tortured while torturous is of or pertaining to torture.

torturable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Capable of, or suitable for, being tortured.
  • * 2000 , John Conroy, Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture (page 27)
    • The torturable class, initially limited to slaves, could be whipped, beaten with rods or chains, stretched on the rack, exposed to red-hot metal, confined in quarters that required painful constriction of their bodies

    Antonyms

    * untorturable

    torturous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to torture.
  • Painful, excruciating, torturing.

    • Usage notes

    * Sometimes confused with tortuous.

    Synonyms

    * tormentous