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Distressing

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Definitions for Distressing

adjective
causing distress or worry or anxiety
Synonyms
distressful disturbing perturbing troubling worrisome worrying
Examples
  1. distressing (or disturbing) news
  2. lived in heroic if something distressful isolation
  3. a disturbing amount of crime
  4. a revelation that was most perturbing
  5. a new and troubling thought
  6. in a particularly worrisome predicament
  7. a worrying situation
  8. a worrying time
adjective
bad
Synonyms
deplorable lamentable pitiful sad sorry
Examples
  1. unfortunate
  2. my finances were in a deplorable state
  3. a lamentable decision
  4. her clothes were in sad shape
  5. a sorry state of affairs
verb
bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship
Synonyms
straiten distress
verb
cause mental pain to
Synonyms
distress
Examples
  1. The news of her child's illness distressed the mother

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