Distressing
11distressing — also distressful adjective making you feel extremely upset and anxious: a distressing experience distressingly adverb distribute, verb (T) 1 to give something such as food, medicine, books etc to a large group of people, especially in a planned… …
12distressing — adjective the news was terribly distressing Syn: upsetting, worrying, disturbing, disquieting, painful, traumatic, agonizing, harrowing; sad, saddening, heartbreaking, heart rending; informal gut wrenching Ant: comforting …
13distressing — UK [dɪˈstresɪŋ] / US adjective making you feel extremely unhappy, worried, or upset distressing news …
14distressing — [dɪˈstresɪŋ] adj making you feel extremely unhappy, worried, or upset distressing news[/ex] …
15distressing — distress ► NOUN 1) extreme anxiety or suffering. 2) the state of a ship or aircraft when in danger or difficulty. 3) Medicine a state of physical strain, especially difficulty in breathing. ► VERB 1) cause distress to. 2) give (furniture, leather …
16distressing — adjective 1. causing distress or worry or anxiety (Freq. 3) distressing (or disturbing) news lived in heroic if something distressful isolation a disturbing amount of crime a revelation that was most perturbing a new and troubling thought in a… …
17distressing — adjective Causing distress; upsetting …
18distressing — Synonyms and related words: acute, affecting, afflictive, agonizing, annoying, atrocious, baleful, baneful, biting, bitter, bleak, bothersome, calamitous, chafing, cheerless, comfortless, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive,… …
19distressing — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Troubling to the mind or emotions: disquieting, disruptive, distressful, disturbing, intrusive, perturbing, troublesome, troublous, unsettling, upsetting, worrisome. See HAPPY, PAIN …
20distressing — adj. troubling, worrying, saddening dis·tress || dɪ stres n. extreme danger; trouble, hardship v. upset, sadden, trouble, grieve; make a piece of furniture appear old, antique (by denting, scratching, painting, etc.) …
