Synonyms for Distressed:

• adj.

  •affected (adjective)
  • more affected,
  • more stirred,
  • sympathetic,
  • more grieved,
  • dis tressed,
  • over whelmed,
  • ex cited,
  • over-whelmed,
  • most grieved,
  • over wrought,
  • ex-cited,
  • most stirred,
  • dis-tressed.
  •afraid (adjective)
  • more faint-hearted,
  • more disheartened,
  • terrorstricken,
  • more faint hearted,
  • timorous,
  • more cowed,
  • faint hearted,
  • more spooked,
  • most daunted,
  • panicstricken,
  • more terror-stricken,
  • dis-mayed,
  • more terror stricken,
  • more rattled,
  • more dismayed,
  • most aroused,
  • dis mayed,
  • most terror-stricken,
  • have cold feet,
  • most disheartened,
  • most trembling,
  • dis heartened,
  • co-wed,
  • dis-heartened,
  • most spooked,
  • most dismayed,
  • most rattled,
  • panic stricken,
  • more aroused,
  • most faint-hearted,
  • more daunted,
  • most faint hearted,
  • co wed,
  • more terrorstricken,
  • most terrorstricken,
  • scared death,
  • most terror stricken,
  • more trembling,
  • terror stricken,
  • most cowed.
  •all (adjective)
  • distressed,
  • in a bad way,
  • hard put.
  •anxious (adjective)
  • most butterflies,
  • more dreading,
  • un easiest,
  • un glued,
  • un-quiet,
  • taut,
  • dis-quieted,
  • most hacked,
  • most disquieted,
  • more hyper,
  • un-easy,
  • shot pieces,
  • un-easiest,
  • most bugged,
  • wreckest,
  • more disquieted,
  • most hyper,
  • up-tight,
  • most dreading,
  • un quiet,
  • un-easier,
  • un quietest,
  • sweating bullets,
  • most clutched,
  • worried sick,
  • more choked,
  • fidgety,
  • un easier,
  • un quieter,
  • un-quieter,
  • most unglued,
  • in tizzy,
  • more butterflies,
  • up tight,
  • in state,
  • un-quietest,
  • more clutched,
  • un-glued,
  • more bugged,
  • more hacked,
  • more careful,
  • more unglued,
  • most choked,
  • un easy,
  • dis quieted.
  •bad (adjective)
  • unhappy,
  • troubling.
  •beside oneself (adjective)
  • more worked-up,
  • out one's wit,
  • out one mind,
  • in sanest,
  • out mind,
  • un-hinged,
  • out of ones mind,
  • most worked-up,
  • un-balanced,
  • out of wit,
  • out one wit,
  • in-sane,
  • most workedup,
  • out ones mind,
  • in-saner,
  • out of one wit,
  • un hinged,
  • hysterical,
  • out one's mind,
  • more worked up,
  • in sane,
  • out of ones wit,
  • in saner,
  • out of one mind,
  • workedup,
  • more workedup,
  • un balanced,
  • in-sanest,
  • out ones wit,
  • most worked up.
  •bothered (adjective)
  • most vexed,
  • more vexed.
  •brokenhearted (adjective)
  • inconsolable.
  •concerned (adjective)
  • most exercised,
  • biting ones nails,
  • on pins needles,
  • biting one nails,
  • more exercised,
  • butterflies stomach,
  • tied in knots,
  • tied up knots,
  • in stew,
  • tied knots.
  •depressed (adjective)
  • dysphoric.
  •disadvantaged (adjective)
  • depressed.
  •disappointed (adjective)
  • taken down,
  • hopeless,
  • down in the dumps,
  • shot down,
  • worsted,
  • chapfallen,
  • unsatisfied.
  •disconsolate (adjective)
  • more crushed,
  • more torn up,
  • de stroyed,
  • doleful,
  • more tornup,
  • most crushed,
  • in pits,
  • more ripped,
  • most torn-up,
  • more torn-up,
  • most ripped,
  • more hurting,
  • de-stroyed,
  • woebegone,
  • de-solate,
  • most torn up,
  • tornup,
  • most tornup,
  • most hurting,
  • de solate.
  •distracted (adjective)
  • most panicked,
  • more panicked.
  •distraught (adjective)
  • more nonplussed,
  • most harassed,
  • in panic,
  • more unscrewed,
  • un zipped,
  • more harassed,
  • un screwed,
  • more discomposed,
  • more tormented,
  • un-screwed,
  • most discomposed,
  • dis trait,
  • like chicken with its head cut off,
  • harassed,
  • dis-composed,
  • most nonplussed,
  • most unscrewed,
  • more unzipped,
  • un-zipped,
  • dis composed,
  • dis-trait,
  • most tormented,
  • most unzipped.
  •downcast (adjective)
  • cast down,
  • singing the blues,
  • bummed out,
  • down-in-the-mouth,
  • heartsick,
  • mopey.
  •downtrodden (adjective)
  • in one's clutches,
  • more mistreated,
  • most underfoot,
  • Tyrannized,
  • in ones pocket,
  • under one thumb,
  • at ones beck and call,
  • have not,
  • more have-not,
  • most persecuted,
  • at ones feet,
  • at one beck and call,
  • more havenot,
  • more maltreated,
  • more underdog,
  • led by nose,
  • in one pocket,
  • most underdog,
  • under-foot,
  • under-dog,
  • most havenot,
  • mis treated,
  • more suppressed,
  • more underfoot,
  • more subjugated,
  • most subjugated,
  • at ones beck call,
  • mis-treated,
  • under ones thumb,
  • more tyrannized,
  • most have-not,
  • most tyrannized,
  • at one beck call,
  • in one power,
  • more persecuted,
  • at beck call,
  • most have not,
  • under dog,
  • underfoot,
  • at one feet,
  • at mercy,
  • most maltreated,
  • in one's power,
  • at one mercy,
  • most suppressed,
  • havenot,
  • at feet,
  • in one clutches,
  • in ones power,
  • in clutches,
  • a slave to,
  • at one's beck call,
  • in ones clutches,
  • in pocket,
  • at ones mercy,
  • helpless,
  • most mistreated,
  • more have not,
  • over come.
  •grief-stricken (adjective)
  • grief stricken,
  • anguished,
  • most anguished,
  • most devastated,
  • more devastated,
  • more anguished,
  • griefstricken.
  •harried (adjective)
  • more beset,
  • more stressed,
  • at wits end,
  • hardpressed,
  • most hardpressed,
  • more hard-pressed,
  • more hard pressed,
  • hard pressed,
  • most stressed,
  • most hard pressed,
  • more hardpressed,
  • most beset,
  • at wit end,
  • be-set,
  • most hard-pressed.
  •hurt (adjective)
  • more nicked,
  • more shot,
  • more bleeding,
  • more warped,
  • most lacerated,
  • most agonized,
  • more grazed,
  • dis-figured,
  • most disfigured,
  • most marred,
  • most hit,
  • Mauled,
  • dis figured,
  • most scarred,
  • more hit,
  • more scraped,
  • miffed,
  • most piqued,
  • wounded,
  • most contused,
  • more scratched,
  • shooker,
  • more disfigured,
  • more mauled,
  • more tortured,
  • most buffeted,
  • most mauled,
  • more bruised,
  • most scraped,
  • more scarred,
  • more buffeted,
  • most suffering,
  • shookest,
  • most nicked,
  • more agonized,
  • most bruised,
  • most grazed,
  • more piqued,
  • most bleeding,
  • more battered,
  • more lacerated,
  • more cut,
  • most scratched,
  • most cut,
  • more suffering,
  • warped,
  • most tortured,
  • struck,
  • most warped,
  • more contused,
  • most shot,
  • more marred,
  • most battered.
  •impoverished (adjective)
  • in-solvent,
  • penurious,
  • in solvent,
  • most beggared,
  • more beggared.
  •inconsolable (adjective)
  • unconsolable.
  •miserable (adjective)
  • down the mouth,
  • on downer,
  • more racked,
  • most racked,
  • Racked,
  • down mouth.
  •nervous (adjective)
  • more unrestful,
  • un strung,
  • un-restful,
  • ex-citable,
  • more ruffled,
  • most unrestful,
  • more nervous,
  • ex citable,
  • high strung,
  • un restful,
  • highstrung,
  • un-strung,
  • most ruffled,
  • unstrung.
  •oppressed (adjective)
  • more enslaved,
  • enslaved,
  • more abused,
  • most enslaved,
  • most abused.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • dog-tired,
  • lowdown,
  • dead feet,
  • like a chicken with its head cut off,
  • at wit's end,
  • Hacked,
  • under one's thumb,
  • carried away,
  • in doldrums,
  • Beggared,
  • sick of,
  • out of mind,
  • in want,
  • bad,
  • at one's mercy,
  • harried,
  • pitiful,
  • biting nails,
  • in the pits,
  • petered out,
  • worried,
  • at one's beck and call,
  • in a tizzy,
  • low-down,
  • biting one's nails,
  • narcoleptic,
  • down in dumps,
  • strung out,
  • faint-hearted,
  • bothered,
  • terror-stricken,
  • be set,
  • dead on one's feet,
  • disappointed,
  • worked-up,
  • in suspense,
  • unscrewed,
  • Unmoneyed,
  • hurt,
  • Bummed,
  • hyper,
  • ashamed,
  • impoverished,
  • in awe,
  • at one's feet,
  • broken down,
  • undone,
  • on pins and needles,
  • overtaxed,
  • unrestful,
  • scared to death,
  • disconsolate,
  • downcast,
  • in pain,
  • tipped over,
  • led by the nose,
  • shot to pieces,
  • in a stew,
  • downtrodden,
  • distracted,
  • over-wrought,
  • all torn up,
  • out of one's wit,
  • come apart,
  • unglued,
  • torn-up,
  • moneyless,
  • up set,
  • upset,
  • all in,
  • tied up in knots,
  • nervous,
  • tired,
  • wrecker,
  • beside oneself,
  • panicky,
  • busted up,
  • oppressed,
  • distraught,
  • flat broke,
  • fagged,
  • hard-pressed,
  • very upset,
  • affected,
  • in a panic,
  • in a state,
  • in power,
  • in one's pocket,
  • down in mouth,
  • on a downer,
  • dog tired,
  • in great need; financially poor,
  • miserable,
  • down and out,
  • poverty-stricken,
  • psyched out,
  • anxious,
  • butterflies in stomach,
  • stone broke,
  • dirt poor,
  • played out,
  • miserably poor,
  • at beck and call,
  • torn up,
  • impencunious,
  • sick at heart,
  • under foot,
  • broken up,
  • under thumb,
  • scared stiff,
  • sorry,
  • run scared,
  • Butterflies,
  • grief-stricken,
  • out wit,
  • contused.
  •panicky (adjective)
  • fearsome.
  •pitiful (adjective)
  • in-adequate,
  • in significant,
  • more arousing,
  • scurviest,
  • scurvy,
  • most arousing,
  • scurvier,
  • in adequate.
  •poor (adjective)
  • destitute,
  • penniless,
  • homeless,
  • have-not,
  • bankrupt,
  • busted,
  • pauper,
  • hand-to-mouth,
  • embarrassed,
  • poor,
  • squalid,
  • shabby,
  • down-and-out,
  • dilapidated,
  • scruffy,
  • beggarly,
  • bereft.
  •poverty-stricken (adjective)
  • more unmoneyed,
  • most moneyless,
  • needful,
  • most impencunious,
  • down out,
  • povertystricken,
  • more impencunious,
  • un-moneyed,
  • most unmoneyed,
  • un moneyed,
  • more moneyless,
  • poverty stricken,
  • in dire circumstances.
  •sad (adjective)
  • in grief,
  • in dumps,
  • more bereaved,
  • sick heart,
  • be reaved,
  • most bereaved,
  • out sorts,
  • be-reaved.
  •tearful (adjective)
  • in tears,
  • blubbery.
  •tired (adjective)
  • more dog-tired,
  • most consumed,
  • over worked,
  • dogtired,
  • most fagged,
  • more prostrated,
  • more collapsing,
  • more irked,
  • more dogtired,
  • dead one's feet,
  • more consumed,
  • more fagged,
  • most dog-tired,
  • brokendown,
  • more narcoleptic,
  • most dogtired,
  • most dog tired,
  • dead on ones feet,
  • over-taxed,
  • most overtaxed,
  • dead on one feet,
  • tuckered out,
  • dead one feet,
  • most prostrated,
  • most narcoleptic,
  • most irked,
  • dead ones feet,
  • more dog tired,
  • most exasperated,
  • most collapsing,
  • more overtaxed,
  • over taxed,
  • dead on feet,
  • over-worked,
  • ex-asperated.
  •troubled (adjective)
  • more inconvenienced,
  • dis-pleased,
  • more aggravated,
  • more riled,
  • more pestered,
  • ex-acerbated,
  • most harrowed,
  • most plagued,
  • most exacerbated,
  • more exacerbated,
  • most riled,
  • ex acerbated,
  • most aggravated,
  • dis pleased,
  • most inconvenienced,
  • more plagued,
  • most pestered,
  • more harrowed.
  •undone (adjective)
  • un done,
  • more unnerved,
  • most unnerved,
  • un-done,
  • un nerved.
  •upset (adjective)
  • wrecked,
  • shook up,
  • basket case,
  • ripped,
  • wired,
  • Exercised,
  • shook,
  • peeved,
  • bundle of nerves,
  • spooked,
  • cut up,
  • up the wall,
  • Dragged,
  • bugged.
  •worried (adjective)
  • worried stiff.
  •wretched (adjective)
  • more low down,
  • low down,
  • most bummed,
  • most lowdown,
  • more lowdown,
  • more low-down,
  • more bummed.

• n.

  •
  • solicitous,
  • feelings,
  • sore,
  • unsettled,
  • agitated,
  • stiff,
  • uneasy,
  • concerned.
  •
  • stuck,
  • deadlocked,
  • Beleaguered,
  • out of your depth,
  • embroiled,
  • pressed,
  • worse off,
  • up against something,
  • in deep trouble.
  •
  • homesick,
  • bleak,
  • subdued,
  • wistful,
  • sorrowful,
  • melancholy,
  • gloomy.
  •
  • crisp.
  •disquieted (noun)
  • disquieted.
  •distressed (noun)
  • disturbed,
  • stressed,
  • in trouble,
  • troubled.
  •fraught (noun)
  • fraught.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • feeling.

• v.

  •pained (verb)
  • inflamed,
  • Discomforted,
  • tortured,
  • tormented,
  • afflicted,
  • cramped,
  • Ached,
  • stung,
  • stitched,
  • Smarted,
  • Suffered,
  • Wrenched,
  • pained,
  • irritated,
  • Throbbed,
  • agonized,
  • chafed.
  •punished (verb)
  • imprisoned,
  • Castigated,
  • corrected,
  • persecuted,
  • Crucified,
  • fined,
  • Sentenced,
  • executed,
  • penalized,
  • lambasted,
  • tried,
  • chastened,
  • disciplined,
  • avenged,
  • chastised,
  • Incarcerated,
  • Keelhauled,
  • punished,
  • reprised,
  • burdened,
  • confined,
  • Judged,
  • Pilloried.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • fleecy,
  • creased,
  • agonised,
  • afraid,
  • stonewashed,
  • stretchy,
  • three-ply,
  • brushed,
  • woollen,
  • rainproof,
  • tie-dyed,
  • fibrous,
  • quilted,
  • woolen,
  • diaphanous,
  • sad,
  • woolly,
  • filmy,
  • footsore,
  • tweedy,
  • uncomfortable,
  • woven,
  • colorfast,
  • saddle sore,
  • fire-retardant.
  •
  • plush,
  • flimsy,
  • sheer,
  • wooly,
  • frayed,
  • lacy,
  • silken,
  • Breathable,
  • threadbare.
  •
  • see through,
  • cellular.
  •
  • raw.
  •
  • stretch.
  •
  • loose.
  •
  • tight.
  •afflicted
  • wretched.
  •mournful
  • dolorous.
  •sorry
  • badly.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • disconcerted,
  • in debt,
  • annoyed,
  • careworn,
  • bereaved,
  • Land-poor,
  • make sick,
  • horrified,
  • unsure,
  • nervy,
  • skittish,
  • Convulsed,
  • comfortless,
  • desolation,
  • distressing,
  • aghast,
  • blue,
  • antsy,
  • jumpy,
  • long-faced,
  • bemoan,
  • depressing,
  • shamed,
  • heartbroken,
  • distrait,
  • contrite,
  • discomfited,
  • highly strung,
  • broken,
  • worked up,
  • grieve,
  • plaintiveness,
  • force,
  • necessitous,
  • dismal,
  • affliction,
  • in a flap,
  • shamefaced,
  • puzzled,
  • fearful,
  • bewail,
  • chap-fallen,
  • disease,
  • ruffled,
  • joyless,
  • forlorn,
  • fretful,
  • beastly,
  • beset,
  • awkward,
  • vexed,
  • needy,
  • reduced,
  • disgraced,
  • unprosperous,
  • injure,
  • aggrieved,
  • stand,
  • in straitened circumstances,
  • Lacked,
  • crushed,
  • humiliated,
  • harm,
  • inadequate,
  • on the edge,
  • hurting,
  • self-conscious,
  • stricken,
  • short,
  • hung up,
  • disheartened,
  • embarrass,
  • needed,
  • Discountenanced,
  • demented,
  • grievous,
  • despairing,
  • thorn,
  • mad,
  • terrible,
  • moved,
  • pestered,
  • excitable,
  • offended,
  • twisted,
  • hard up,
  • morose,
  • remorseful,
  • panic-struck,
  • grief,
  • unnerved,
  • teary,
  • dismayed,
  • put out,
  • Griped,
  • Misfortuned,
  • detriment,
  • dejected,
  • harass,
  • flappable,
  • stirred,
  • mourn,
  • ill at ease,
  • smitten,
  • bar,
  • suffer,
  • scared,
  • disconcert,
  • hagridden,
  • hardship,
  • woeful,
  • shocked,
  • on tenterhooks,
  • strained,
  • blushing,
  • disordered,
  • pitiable,
  • Sorrowed,
  • upturned,
  • woe,
  • Feared,
  • saddle-sore,
  • Swayed,
  • Scathed,
  • impediment,
  • agonizing,
  • intense,
  • illness,
  • involved,
  • out of countenance,
  • Gloomed,
  • adversity,
  • plagued,
  • in the doldrums,
  • glum,
  • dreary,
  • accented,
  • Ailed,
  • dispirited,
  • lugubrious,
  • sensitive,
  • wretch,
  • vexation,
  • acted upon,
  • overturned,
  • in narrow circumstances,
  • agitate,
  • sickness,
  • awful,
  • maladjusted,
  • worry about,
  • impede,
  • misery,
  • on edge,
  • Harrowed,
  • Grieved,
  • agonize,
  • pinched,
  • grievance,
  • badly off,
  • regretful,
  • frenzied,
  • unhappiness,
  • lachrymose,
  • mournful,
  • endure,
  • Squeezed,
  • disservice,
  • distract,
  • overwrought,
  • Star-crossed,
  • insolvent,
  • downhearted,
  • constrain,
  • infelicitous,
  • despondent,
  • rotten,
  • apprehensive,
  • confuse,
  • lament,
  • unhinged,
  • discouraged,
  • impecunious,
  • harrowing,
  • Mattered,
  • injury,
  • sombre,
  • sullen,
  • suffering,
  • martyrized,
  • tired out,
  • high-strung,
  • frightened,
  • abashed,
  • in reduced circumstances,
  • discombobulated,
  • brainsick,
  • spiritless,
  • in the dumps,
  • discontented,
  • inconvenienced,
  • guilty,
  • discomposed,
  • Wrung,
  • watchful,
  • gloom,
  • cheerless,
  • allow,
  • Influenced,
  • Pitied,
  • uptight,
  • accept,
  • have,
  • straitened,
  • long for,
  • lacerated,
  • vex,
  • undergo,
  • Saddened,
  • funereal,
  • in a dither,
  • misfortune,
  • jittery,
  • obstruct,
  • stupefied,
  • uncertain,
  • insufficient,
  • red-faced,
  • indigent,
  • haunted,
  • narrow,
  • wretchedness,
  • edgy,
  • ill,
  • saturnine,
  • sick,
  • appalled,
  • coerce,
  • mortified,
  • unfortunate,
  • put-upon,
  • strung up,
  • tearful,
  • terrified,
  • horror-struck,
  • lousy,
  • hitch,
  • Strapped,
  • irked,
  • compel,
  • lamentation,
  • disrupt,
  • low-spirited,
  • wound up,
  • tense,
  • pressured,
  • distress,
  • trialed,
  • in a sweat,
  • down,
  • under hatches,
  • restless,
  • rueful,
  • careful,
  • crestfallen,
  • trouble,
  • abide,
  • Broken-hearted,
  • desolate,
  • dreadful,
  • crazy,
  • in a frenzy,
  • annoy,
  • wary,
  • conscience-stricken,
  • worked upon,
  • confused,
  • flustered,
  • stunned,
  • shaky,
  • irritate,
  • heavyhearted,
  • damaged,
  • unbalanced,
  • petrified,
  • disadvantage,
  • humbled,
  • alarmed,
  • cautious,
  • chagrined,
  • terror-struck,
  • hindrance,
  • ruthful,
  • aroused,
  • touched,
  • melancholic,
  • Martyred,
  • agony,
  • impressed,
  • perturb,
  • heavy-hearted,
  • panic-stricken,
  • disturb,
  • feeling the pinch,
  • damage,
  • horror-stricken,
  • sheepish,
  • perturbed,
  • moody.

Paraphrases for Distressed:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    distress.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    dismayed, troubled, Saddened, appalled, disappointed, desperate, disadvantaged, affected, concerned, destitute, overwhelmed, impoverished, frustrated, anxious, disquieting, helpless, difficult, sad, dire, confused, needy, sorry, struggling, troubling, impacted, ailing, unsettled, insecure, uncomfortable, painful, embattled, underprivileged, restless.
  • Verb, past participle
    struck, Regretted, dismayed, troubled, disturbed, appalled, shocked, concerned.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    disturbed, disheartened, distraught, distressing, depressed, upset, bereaved, disaster-stricken, stricken, shocked, worried, disturbing, perturbed, uneasy, non-performing, Grieved.

Antonyms for Distressed:

• adj.

  • upset
    glad, peaceful, calm, collected, happy, joyful, untroubled, pleased, unworried, cool, comforted.

Homophones for Distressed:

• distracted, distrust, distraught, district, destruct, distract.