ordeal
nounHow many syllables in ordeal?
There are 2 syllables in the word ordeal.How to pronounce ordeal:
Definition of ordeal:
- ordeal (noun):
- a severe or trying experience
- a severe or trying experience.
- a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control
Synonyms for ordeal:
affliction
agony
anguish
baptism of fire
burden
challenge
cross
crucible
difficulty
fire
gantlet
gauntlet
grief
grievance
hardship
initiation
labour
misery
misfortune
nightmare
suffering
test
toil
torment
torture
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Antonyms for ordeal:
actuality
animation
bliss
blissfulness
buoyancy
certainty
comfort
contentment
daymare
delight
ecstasy
elatedness
elation
enjoyment
enthusiasm
euphoria
exaltation
excitement
exhilaration
extreme happiness
exultation
fact
fulfillment
fulfilment
gladness
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- flowerbed
- doglike
- smooching
- cloister
- blotches
- ushered
- spectre
- skimming
- romping
- flailing
- ebb tide
- boarder
- scowling
- midfield
- hobby's
- twining
- Judaized
- immersed
- crushing
- wouldn't
- stinker
- sizzled
- percuss
- entail
- wetness
- suffered
- plaudit
- footstep
- beadles
- backsight
- tillite
- ingrate
- framing
- unfix
- mildewed
- gnocchi
- slighting
- qua
- hutment
- compelled
- well-trained
- seeming
- reckoned
- swollen
- stringent
- showered
- seldom
- squawking
- method
- uncap
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