Distressful

Quick meaning: Distressful is an adjective meaning Causing or feeling distress, anxiety, or strain; distressing.

Meaning

Causing or feeling distress, anxiety, or strain; distressing.

Example Sentences

If I'm never successful, / It won't be distressful, / 'Cos I don't care.

There, vvhile above the giddy tempeſt flies, / And all around diſtreſsful yells ariſe, / The penſive exile, bending vvith his vvoe, / To ſtop too fearful, and too faint to go.

Once more, that fulness of prophetic joy, / With which this unborn Jubilee he mark'd / Through the long vista of distressful years, / While the dark war-clouds gathering at his feet / Involved the scene.

Word Forms

• distressfull

Synonyms for distressful

Depending on context, synonyms include heavy, perturbing, disturbing, worrisome, distressing, troubling.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include distressing, troubling, disturbing, worrisome, worrying, heavy.

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