Ordeal

What do we mean by ordeal?

A difficult or painful experience, especially one that severely tests character or endurance. synonym: trial. noun

A method of trial in which the accused was subjected to pain or danger as a means of invoking God's intercession, with the outcome regarded as revealing a divine determination of guilt or innocence. noun

A form of trial to determine guilt or innocence, formerly practised in Europe, and still in parts of the East and by various savage tribes. noun

A severe trial; trying circumstances; a severe test of courage, endurance, patience, etc. noun

Synonyms Proof, experiment, touchstone. noun

Pertaining to trial by ordeal.

An ancient form of test to determine guilt or innocence, by appealing to a supernatural decision, -- once common in Europe, and still practiced in the East and by savage tribes. noun

Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience. noun

See Calabar bean, under Calabar. noun

The root of a species of Strychnos growing in West Africa, used, like the ordeal bean, in trials for witchcraft. noun

A poisonous tree of Madagascar (Tanghinia venenata syn. Cerbera venenata). Persons suspected of crime are forced to eat the seeds of the plumlike fruit, and criminals are put to death by being pricked with a lance dipped in the juice of the seeds. noun

Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal. adjective

A painful or trying experience. noun

A trial in which the accused was subjected to a dangerous test (such as ducking in water), divine authority deciding the guilt of the accused. noun

A severe or trying experience noun

A primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence noun

A painful or trying experience.

A trial in which the accused was subjected to a dangerous test (such as ducking in water), divine authority deciding the guilt of the accused.

The poisonous ordeal bean or Calabar bean

Slang for vagina, often used in conjunction with situation. The useage developed so that one could discuss sex without alerting others. Urban Dictionary

A very unpleasant and painful or difficult experience. Urban Dictionary

When too many people are involved in a decision which involves all persons engaging in an activity, and it becomes too difficult to decide where to go, or how to execute the plan. Urban Dictionary

Adj: (also ordelic) describes a situation where one would experience a stressful, traumatic or otherwise uncomfortable event ot series of events Urban Dictionary

An Imposing Caucasian with characteristics peculiarly similar to that of George Costanza. A spin-off from "The Situation" that nobody conscious would claim. Urban Dictionary

Usually barbies use it to say something is cute (YOUR OUT FiT, SHOES,ACESSORIES. Urban Dictionary

1.) A practice used back in the medieval ages for determining ones innocence or guilt by doing something dangerous 2.) What the templar's sky fortress rumble is called 3.when you get an app and it makes you do a inescapable, one week trial and makes you pay for it for the trial Urban Dictionary

When you encounter a situation with an unnecessarily large number of options to choose from, and all you really wanted is something that just works... what kind of bread, what kind of cheese, condiments, meat.... sigh! (Where I come from, bread=white sliced bread)... Bonus points when used with cloud computing! Refer to "Funniest Milk Ad Ever! (Australian)" on youtube for further illustration. Urban Dictionary

The curious and unpleasant yet unsurprising and common experience of looking up a person's name (perhaps your own) on Urban Dictionary and finding that the results become more and more A) disgustingly homophobic (gaynotation) B) shaming of fat people (fatnotation) C) slut shaming (whorenotation) D) racist (racenotation) as you scroll down or go past the first page. Option A occurs mostly with typically male names. When occurring with typically female names, it tends to be that the definitions are about male homosexuals anyway. Option B and C occur mostly with typically female names. Option D occurs mostly with typically male names, for some reason. Urban Dictionary

1. A very potent, very hot expulsion of air from the anus. The heat usually lingers and is uncomfortable to both of which have "smelt" and "dealt". 2. A feverish, scalding, irritating defecating experience; often diarrheal and requires a cream, salve, or ointment to calm the burning sensation. Can be caused by spicy foods and some viruses. 3. A severe rash caused by an STD contracted by anal intercourse. 4. An instance in which someone is trying to get an asshole to behave sensibly, but they continue to make a scene. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to ordeal:
ordeal, ordal.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word ordeal:
innocence, endured, guilt, poison, brotherhood, bitter, arrow, accused, torture, innocent, linda, suspected, rescued, trial, memories, prove, lodge, prisoner, victim, jury, gilbert, hands, returns, victims.

Words that rhyme with ordeal:
deal, seal, appeal, wheel, feel, steel, steal, surreal, real, reel, heel, reveal, ideal, peel, zeal, kneel, keel, meal, puerile, repeal, teal, eel, piecemeal, heal, conceal, spiel, automobile, peal, genteel, anneal, creel, kreel, squeal, stele, keal, veal, congeal, creal, abele, audiophile, speel, unreal, oatmeal, beal, smeal, immobile, glockenspiel, seel, neil, leal, neal, riel, steele, emile, lille, emil, snowmobile, ezekiel, weil, viel, flywheel, ciel, newsreel, lucille, cartwheel, diel, brasil, ferris wheel, teel, kiel, corneal, cornmeal, beale, camille, peale, banana peel, stael, cele, beau ideal, neill, deel, bookmobile, neel, mele, reseal, verrill, scheele, unseal, oneal, oneill, tweel, steering wheel, shaquille, stainless steel, peele, beall, fifth wheel, vielle, biel, adriel.

Adjectives that are often used to describe ordeal:
terrible, long, whole, fiery, such, severe, painful, entire, physical, dreadful, fearful, final, horrible, similar, awful, day, recent, terrifying, difficult, cruel, worst, year, hour, supreme, frightful, greatest, emotional, daily, tremendous, grueling, unpleasant, grim, exhausting, fire, prolonged, humiliating, bitter, month, dangerous, agonizing, hard, frightening, turkish, terrific, initiatory, severest, excruciating, tragic, worse, traumatic, judicial, formidable, hot, usual, fierce, lengthy, water, protracted, bloody, stern, impending, ghastly, perilous, horrific, arduous, hideous, triple, severer, week.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective ordeal:
poison, bean, therapy, trial, fire, procedure, poisons, test, trials, times, ceremony, men, path, good, tree, drink, end, scene, torture, oath, tribunals, beans, days, degradation, past, swift, bark, thanks, water, method, free, ritual, purposes, hour, feeling, pit, points, undergone, tragedy, pits, unpleasantness, story, begins, character, iron, fate, common, ceremonies, battle, tolerable, tests, society, eliza, medicine, giver, phase, episode, show, cut, procedures, reactions, home, witness, misfortune, theory, thrust, stage, purer, stories, bridge, plant, breeze, narrative, diseases, incident, brand, novel, motif, combat, fasting.

Consonant match to ordeal:
airedale, ordal, ardelle, ard el, are dull, hair dull, hard deal, hard heel, hard hill, hard l, hoard all.

Words that sound like ordeal:
ordeal, ordal, ordeals, ardelle, auriel, oertel, ardell, ardel, cordele, ardal, orteil, airedale, airdale, oral, oriole, aural, adil, oriel, cordell, ardi, wardle, orda, orial, orel, ordo, chordal, ardee, cordle, oriol, wardell, cordal, orrell, bordel, ardea, oreille, artel, bordell, nordell, oradell, nardil, ordu, ortie, auriol, nordahl, r d, kordel, jordahl, wordle, ideal, hurdle, girdle, curdle, adeel, odile, cordel, adiel, nurdle, airtel, verdell, furdle, cordelle, fair deal, ideale, erdi, eared seal, orting, already, audi, arty, arielle, artie, ardo, arte, arda, arti, audie, aarti, aureole, audile, aral, arel, audia, cardell, auri, -ory, auria, arle, bardell, adl, audial, ardene, ardilla, ardella, ardeche, aortal, archdale, barred owl, ardu, chordee, artio.