'ordeal' definitions:
Definition of 'ordeal'
From: WordNet
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 [syn: ordeal, trial by ordeal]
Synonyms of 'ordeal'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acid test,
- adversity,
- affliction,
- anguish,
- assay,
- blank determination,
- brouillon,
- calvary,
- criterion,
- cross,
- crucial test,
- crucible,
- determination,
- disaster,
- distress,
- docimasy,
- essay,
- feeling out,
- fiery ordeal,
- first draft,
- ghost dance,
- grief,
- hardship,
- kiteflying,
- magic circle,
- misery,
- misfortune,
- nightmare,
- ordeal by battle,
- probation,
- proof,
- rough draft,
- rough sketch,
- Sabbat,
- sounding out,
- standard,
- suffering,
- test,
- test case,
- touchstone,
- tragedy,
- trial,
- trials and tribulations,
- tribulation,
- tribulations,
- troubles,
- try,
- verification,
- visitation