Associations to the word «Distressing»
Noun
- Malady
- Perplexity
- Symptom
- Shipwreck
- Cough
- Calamity
- Predicament
- Circumstance
- Sufferer
- Affliction
- Coping
- Spectacle
- Anxiety
- Suffering
- Exertion
- Obsession
- Misery
- Thirst
- Fanny
- Situation
- Fatigue
- Tendency
- Distress
- Reminder
- Tiding
- Trauma
- Sensation
- Illness
- Apprehension
- Novelty
- Wail
- Vomiting
- Flashback
- Complaint
- Occurrence
- Freud
- Whale
- Emotion
- Repetition
- Pain
- Recollection
- Bullock
- Feeling
- Stimulus
- Grief
- Crise
- Blaine
- Sick
- Affection
- Scene
- Agitation
- Misfortune
- Consequence
- Experience
- Impulse
- Extreme
Adjective
Wiktionary
DISTRESSING, adjective. Causing distress; upsetting
DISTRESSING, verb. Present participle of distress
Dictionary definition
DISTRESSING, adjective. Causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time".
DISTRESSING, adjective. Bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs".
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