Distressful

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  • adjective. Causing or experiencing distress.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Inflicting or bringing distress; distressing; calamitous: as, a distressful event.
  • Indicating distress; proceeding from pain or anguish: as, distressful cries.
  • Attended with poverty or misery; gained by severe or painful toil.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Full of distress; causing, indicating, or attended with, distress.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Causing or having distress, strain, or anxiety.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. causing distress or worry or anxiety
    • Word Usage
    ""No, no," he exclaimed in distressful tones, "I cannot have that, but you must leave us."
    Equivalent
    heavy  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Ms.  anguished  calamitous  demon-like  deplorable  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    distressing  
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