painful, harrowing, heartbreaking, excruciating, agonizing, jarring, dramatic, poignant, riveting, gripping, unsettling, anguishing, heartrending, emotional, horrifying, sorrowful, devastating, tumultuous, bittersweet, profound, torturous, grisly, searing, brutal, startling, haunting, traumatic, gruesome, calamitous, terrifying, horrific, stark, dizzying, perilous, tortuous, nightmarish, jolting, tearful, momentous, dispiriting, unnerving, hellish, abrupt, disorienting, tearjerking, grim, sobering, savage, tumult, frightening, disquieting, spellbinding, cathartic, catharsis, unsentimental, agony, bewildering, climactic, heartache, disastrous, ruinous, depressing, yearlong, heartwarming, suspenseful, turbulent, cataclysmic, chilling, precipitous, unendurable, epochal, exasperating, monumental, discomforting, taut, grueling, protracted, movingly, scarred, tragic, inexorability, revelatory, thrilling, lacerating, humiliating, drastic, saddest, messy, distressing, epic, roiling, upheaval, reverberates, shuddering, shocking, elegiac, impassioned, numbing, heartfelt, ghastly, humbling, teary, ache, hurt, misgiving, rending, revulsion, shaking, throbbing, upset, wallop, contortion, excitement, jolt, lurch, sensation, sickness, twisting, wrench, battering, terrible, agonising, distressful, shattering, awful, dreadful, disheartening, horrendous

sprain

painful, racking