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Pronunciation:
[ dɪstɹˈɛsɪŋ], [ dɪstɹˈɛsɪŋ], [ d_ɪ_s_t_ɹ_ˈɛ_s_ɪ_ŋ]
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Similar words for distressing:
- acute (adjective)
- awful (adjective)
- black (adjective)
- bothersome (adjective)
- demoralizing (adjective)
- deplorable (adjective)
- depressing (adjective)
- dire (adjective)
- disagreeable (adjective)
- disappointing (adjective)
- disquieting (adjective)
- dissatisfactory (adjective)
- disturbing (adjective)
- doleful (adjective)
- dolorous (adjective)
- dreadful (adjective)
- embarrassing (adjective)
- fearful (adjective)
- fearsome (adjective)
- grievous (adjective)
- hard (adjective)
- harrowing (adjective)
- heartrending (adjective)
- hopeless (adjective)
- hurtful (adjective)
- insufferable (adjective)
- irritating (adjective)
- lamentable (adjective)
- mournful (adjective)
- onerous (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- painful (adjective)
- pathetic (adjective)
- piteous (adjective)
- pitiful (adjective)
- poignant (adjective)
- pressing (adjective)
- provoking (adjective)
- punishing (adjective)
- regrettable (adjective)
- sharp (adjective)
- shocking (adjective)
- sore (adjective)
- sorrowful (adjective)
- sorry (adjective)
- staggering (adjective)
- tight (adjective)
- tormenting (adjective)
- uncomfortable (adjective)
- unsatisfactory (adjective)
- unsettling (adjective)
- woeful (adjective)
- distressing (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- paining (verb)
- punishing (verb)
- other synonyms
- awkward
- injurious
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Distressing:
adj.
• acute (adjective)- more shooting,
- more racking,
- powerful,
- over-powering,
- most shooting,
- more acute,
- over powering,
- most racking,
- over-whelming,
- over whelming.
- more vexing,
- most exasperating,
- in-convenient,
- ex-asperating,
- in convenient,
- re-mote,
- most vexing,
- most aggravating,
- more exasperating,
- in-commodious,
- more aggravating,
- most rebarbative,
- inconvenient,
- ex asperating,
- in commodious,
- rebarbative,
- more rebarbative.
- un-fortunate,
- more oppressing,
- portentous,
- re-doubtable,
- most oppressing,
- ruinous,
- most scowling,
- more scowling,
- un fortunate,
- re doubtable.
- dis quieting,
- more unnerving,
- troubling,
- most unnerving,
- most troubling,
- more troubling,
- most disconcerting,
- un-nerving,
- dis-quieting,
- dis concerting,
- more disconcerting,
- dis-concerting,
- un nerving.
- more harassing,
- most discomforting,
- most harassing,
- dis maying,
- dis composing,
- dis comforting,
- dis-maying,
- more discomposing,
- dis-comforting,
- Harassing,
- most impeding,
- most discomposing,
- most dismaying,
- impeding,
- more dismaying,
- dis-composing,
- more impeding,
- more discomforting.
- most dolesome,
- more heart rending,
- most heart-rending,
- most heart rending,
- more heart-rending,
- more dolesome,
- most dolorific,
- heart rending,
- more dolorific.
- most bewildering,
- dis-commodious,
- in-opportune,
- un-seemly,
- more rattling,
- more bewildering,
- most mortifying,
- un easy,
- most rattling,
- more mortifying,
- un-easy,
- be-wildering,
- unpropitious,
- most discommoding,
- most compromising,
- be wildering,
- un-seemlier,
- un-easiest,
- more discommoding,
- un-propitious,
- un seemly,
- more distracting,
- un easier,
- most distracting,
- un-seemliest,
- dis commodious,
- most discommodious,
- un seemliest,
- un propitious,
- more compromising,
- most discomfiting,
- more discommodious,
- uneasy,
- in opportune,
- more discomfiting,
- un easiest,
- un seemlier,
- un-easier.
- Operose,
- hardboiled,
- harder,
- stern,
- uphill battle,
- Difficile,
- unsparing,
- effortful,
- hard as nails,
- coldblooded,
- Toilful.
- most traumatic,
- most tearing,
- torturing,
- nerveracking,
- most torturing,
- more torturing,
- nerve racking,
- more tearing,
- more traumatic.
- most hurting,
- more hurting,
- mischievous,
- dis advantageous,
- pre-judicial,
- dis-advantageous,
- pre judicial.
- in-supportable,
- in supportable,
- in sufferable,
- de testable,
- de-testable,
- in-sufferable,
- un endurable,
- un-endurable.
- most god-awful,
- most god awful,
- god awful,
- more god awful,
- un-favorable,
- more god-awful,
- un favorable.
- most headache,
- most plodding,
- more overtaxing,
- most crushing,
- most overtaxing,
- over-taxing,
- more headache,
- more plodding,
- over taxing,
- most embittering,
- more embittering,
- more crushing.
- woeful,
- up set,
- ill-fitting,
- poignant,
- worrying,
- acute,
- perturbing,
- alarming,
- heartrending,
- Dolesome,
- lamentable,
- deplorable,
- hurtful,
- sorrowful,
- hard,
- insufferable,
- painful,
- provoking,
- regrettable,
- harrowing,
- pathetic,
- fearful,
- onerous,
- unsatisfactory,
- head ache,
- agitative,
- heat-on,
- bothersome,
- overtaxing,
- life and death,
- in mourning,
- for the birds,
- high-priority,
- piteous,
- sick at heart,
- not good enough,
- demoralizing,
- disturbing,
- troublous,
- traumatic,
- upsetting,
- dire,
- full of sorrow,
- in sorrow,
- distressful,
- shuddersome,
- disquieting,
- Commiserable,
- god-awful,
- tight,
- tormenting,
- depressing,
- Dolorific,
- Discommodious,
- dissatisfactory,
- torturous,
- mournful,
- dolorous,
- grievous,
- shocking,
- sorry,
- in pain,
- sore,
- unsettling,
- pressing,
- griefstricken,
- dreadful,
- pitiful,
- hurry-up,
- ulcerated,
- anguished,
- uncomfortable,
- disagreeable,
- heart-rending,
- singing the blues,
- awful.
- most entreating,
- more supplicating,
- more imploring,
- more beseeching,
- more entreating,
- most beseeching,
- most imploring,
- most supplicating.
- heaton,
- most highpriority,
- more heaton,
- re-quiring,
- most hurryup,
- more high priority,
- most high priority,
- most heat-on,
- more heat-on,
- re quiring,
- most hurry up,
- more hurryup,
- heat on,
- most hurry-up,
- most high-priority,
- more claiming,
- most claiming,
- high priority,
- most heat on,
- more hurry-up,
- highpriority,
- more forcing,
- more high-priority,
- hurry up,
- more constraining,
- more highpriority,
- most constraining,
- more hurry up,
- hurryup,
- more heat on,
- most heaton,
- most forcing.
- most grieved,
- more grieved,
- more bruised,
- most stung,
- most bruised,
- most chafed,
- more ulcerated,
- more chafed,
- more stung,
- more vexed,
- most irked,
- most abscessed,
- most reddened,
- most vexed,
- more abscessed,
- most ulcerated,
- up-set,
- pained,
- more irked,
- more reddened.
n.
• distressing (noun) • Other relevant words: (noun)v.
• Other relevant words: (verb) • paining (verb) • punishing (verb)Other synonyms:
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•
- suspicious,
- disconcerting,
- bleak,
- sobering,
- nerve-wracking,
- daunting,
- ominous,
- disruptive,
- stressful,
- oppressive.
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•
- niggling,
- frightening,
- unsettled,
- troublesome,
- intrusive,
- brooding,
- sickening,
- alarmist,
- foreboding.
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•
- severe.
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•
- grave.
- regretful,
- down,
- deadly,
- corrosive,
- disconsolate,
- Discomfiting,
- painfully,
- persistent,
- embroil,
- relentless,
- displace,
- glooming,
- fine,
- climacteric,
- difficult,
- petrifying,
- awkward,
- ruffle,
- Shaming,
- dingy,
- shooting,
- detrimental,
- nociceptive,
- toxic,
- moving,
- venomous,
- cheerless,
- poisonous,
- fretful,
- vile,
- depressed,
- off-putting,
- intimidating,
- rotten,
- pressuring,
- dejected,
- injurious,
- agonising,
- discompose,
- pitying,
- noxious,
- melancholy,
- ill-fated,
- stirring,
- perturb,
- devastating,
- desolation,
- challenging,
- ruthful,
- sharp,
- spooky,
- corrupting,
- sorrowing,
- repressive,
- dark,
- damaging,
- malign,
- Enraging,
- drastic,
- cavity,
- meritless,
- hole,
- despicable,
- traumatizing,
- sadly,
- darkness,
- startling,
- heart-breaking,
- Needing,
- foul,
- touchy,
- Gnawing,
- concerning,
- pitiable,
- disgusting,
- extreme,
- scathing,
- bitter,
- wearisome,
- pesky,
- distress,
- gloominess,
- disadvantageous,
- nasty,
- heartfelt,
- contrite,
- disrupt,
- disturb,
- afflictive,
- tense,
- horrifying,
- calamity,
- lachrymose,
- cruel,
- vexing,
- venenous,
- ill-omened,
- incisive,
- Angering,
- morose,
- unpleasant,
- disconcert,
- maddening,
- anguish,
- hate,
- chilling,
- exhausting,
- unpleasantly,
- saddening,
- brisk,
- nerve-racking,
- nagging,
- prejudicial,
- terrifying,
- agitate,
- offending,
- abusive,
- tragedy,
- nervous,
- distract,
- gloom,
- virulent,
- dejection,
- harsh,
- galling,
- Recurring,
- agitating,
- incensing,
- tortured,
- catastrophe,
- sensitive,
- abominable,
- deleterious,
- continual,
- beastly,
- piercing,
- tough,
- pester,
- veneniferous,
- pestering,
- Griping,
- pestiferous,
- malevolent,
- Scatheful,
- profound,
- Star-crossed,
- anxious,
- vicious,
- aggravating,
- drab,
- revolting,
- unendurable,
- joyless,
- Fretting,
- ill,
- taxing,
- malefic,
- lacking,
- forlorn,
- ghastly,
- hair-raising,
- trialing,
- calamitous,
- emotional,
- exasperating,
- unfortunate,
- wanting,
- horrible,
- no-count,
- annoy,
- dispiriting,
- Disserviceable,
- corroding,
- restless,
- paroxysmal,
- Fearing,
- strong,
- blue,
- wrong,
- excruciating,
- austere,
- catastrophic,
- intolerable,
- lethal,
- touching,
- rueful,
- upset,
- achy,
- stabbing,
- corruptive,
- repulsive,
- scary,
- dismal,
- antiquing,
- ailing,
- stir,
- hapless,
- dismaying,
- annoying,
- fierce,
- appalling,
- raw,
- downhearted,
- unsettle,
- strained,
- miserable,
- Pinching,
- worryingly,
- bother,
- noisome,
- straining,
- pitifully,
- punitive,
- distressingly,
- Venenate,
- remorseful,
- tyrannical,
- horrid,
- shameful,
- tearful,
- humiliating,
- formidable,
- good-for-nothing,
- deep,
- tragic,
- creepy,
- crushing,
- abhorrent,
- Dissatisfying,
- unlucky,
- affecting,
- hideous,
- poor,
- Lacerating,
- tormented,
- unnerving,
- mortifying,
- vexatious,
- distressed,
- criminal,
- Discomposing,
- heartbroken,
- tragical,
- interrupt,
- unbearable,
- embarrass,
- frightful,
- tiresome,
- baleful,
- Mattering,
- good-for-naught,
- desperate,
- aggrieved,
- consuming,
- pungent,
- demanding,
- chronic,
- execrable,
- stressing,
- brutal,
- disastrous,
- tender,
- plaintive,
- blues,
- provocative,
- wounding,
- unreassuring,
- despondency,
- blackness,
- lousy,
- exquisite,
- Irksome,
- burning,
- derange,
- depression,
- spasmodic,
- lugubrious,
- nauseous,
- toilsome,
- misfortunate,
- Plaguing,
- infuriating,
- serious,
- weighty,
- condemnable,
- grim,
- frustrating,
- grieving,
- basin,
- unrelenting,
- stiff,
- nauseating,
- fraught,
- disaster,
- cumbersome,
- inauspicious,
- terrible,
- affliction,
- intense,
- dip,
- soul-stirring,
- offensive,
- dreary,
- reprehensible,
- outrageous,
- Fatiguing,
- keen,
- discouraging,
- loathsome,
- wicked,
- overpowering,
- Bothering,
- taut,
- comfortless,
- continuous,
- rough,
- baneful,
- malignant,
- atrocious,
- pernicious,
- horrific,
- ill-starred,
- counterproductive,
- monstrous,
- harass,
- too bad,
- disheartening,
- Spasmatic,
- disarrange,
- penetrating,
- tiring,
- overwhelming,
- biting,
- merciless,
- dolor.
How to use "Distressing" in context?
The word "distressing" has been associated with negative feelings since its earliest days. In the 1599 play Othello, when Desdemona is told that her husband has killed someone, she replies, "I am distressed." In antiquated English, the word "distressing" meant "to cause anxiety." It was only in the late 1800s that the word became associated with happy feelings, as in the song "Little White Lies" by The Kinks: "You make me so very, very happy/And I sometimes find it quite distressing." The word has since been used for a variety of emotions, from joy to sadness.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
distress.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
awkward, bad, boring, challenging, confusing, desperate, difficult, disappointed, disastrous, disgraceful, disgusting, disturbed, dramatic, dreadful, excruciating, flagrant, galling, glaring, hard, harsh, horrendous, horrible, horrific, horrifying, inconvenient, intrusive, overwhelming, painstaking, scandalous, serious, sobering, sorry, strenuous, tough, troubled, worried, wretched, Distracting.
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Adjective
agonizing, alarming, annoying, appalling, arduous, awful, bitter, bleak, burdensome, concerned, cumbersome, daunting, deplorable, depressing, desolate, devastating, dire, disagreeable, disappointing, disconcerting, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, dismaying, dispiriting, disquieting, disruptive, distressed, disturbing, embarrassing, frightening, frustrating, gloomy, grievous, grim, harrowing, hurtful, laborious, lamentable, miserable, nerve-wracking, ominous, onerous, outrageous, painful, pathetic, pitiful, poignant, regretful, regrettable, sad, saddening, scary, severe, shameful, shocking, sickening, sore, sorrowful, staggering, startling, stressful, tedious, terrible, terrifying, tiresome, tragic, traumatic, troublesome, troubling, uncomfortable, uneasy, unfortunate, unhappy, unnerving, unpleasant, unsatisfactory, upsetting, woeful, worrisome, worrying, Preoccupying, heart-rending, unsettling.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
shocking.
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