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Distressing

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Causing distress; upsetting

v. Present participle of distress.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Causing distress; painful; unpleasant.

ad. In a distressing manner.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Very painful or afflicting: as, a distressing sickness.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. causing distress or worry or anxiety

adj. bad; unfortunate

Word Usage

"I think he should get on The Incredibles 2 and stop wasting his time with something that people won't watch. zamarov i thought of use of the word distressing was a bit strong do people get distressed about this? wonka bar"

Equivalent

heavy bad

Antonym

comforting comfortable

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

painful unpleasant distressful uneasy tormentful dolorific carking heavy calamitous grievous

Verb Stem

distress

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Lessing acquiescing addressing assessing blessing caressing coalescing compressing confessing depressing