All distress synonyms
disΒ·tress
D d noun distress
- hardship β a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.
- pain β physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- disaster β a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure.
- privation β lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life: His life of privation began to affect his health.
- want β to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
- need β a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation: There is no need for you to go there.
- misfortune β adverse fortune; bad luck.
- catastrophe β A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage.
- scrape β to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
- indigence β seriously impoverished condition; poverty.
- jam β to press, squeeze, or wedge tightly between bodies or surfaces, so that motion or extrication is made difficult or impossible: The ship was jammed between two rocks.
- bummer β If you say that something is a bummer, you mean that it is unpleasant or annoying.
- vicissitude β a change or variation occurring in the course of something.
- downer β Informal. a depressant or sedative drug, especially a barbiturate. a depressing experience, person, or situation.
- crunch β If you crunch something hard, such as a sweet, you crush it noisily between your teeth.
- destitution β Destitution is the state of having no money or possessions.
- difficulty β the fact or condition of being difficult.
- drag β drag and drop
- poverty β the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor. Synonyms: privation, neediness, destitution, indigence, pauperism, penury. Antonyms: riches, wealth, plenty.
- pinch β to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
- calamity β A calamity is an event that causes a great deal of damage, destruction, or personal distress.
- rigor β strictness, severity, or harshness, as in dealing with people.
- pickle β a single grain or kernel, as of barley or corn.
verb distress
- worry β to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
- desolate β A desolate place is empty of people and lacking in comfort.
- afflict β If you are afflicted by pain, illness, or disaster, it affects you badly and makes you suffer.
- agonize β If you agonize over something, you feel very anxious about it and spend a long time thinking about it.
- wound β the act of winding.
- strap β a narrow strip of flexible material, especially leather, as for fastening or holding things together.
- strain β to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
- irritate β to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
- hound β Nautical. either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a mast, for supporting the trestletrees, that support an upper mast at its heel. Compare cheek (def 12).
- depress β If someone or something depresses you, they make you feel sad and disappointed.
- nag β to annoy by persistent faultfinding, complaints, or demands.
- injure β to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
- sadden β make sad
- disquiet β lack of calm, peace, or ease; anxiety; uneasiness.
- harass β to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
- vex β to irritate; annoy; provoke: His noisy neighbors often vexed him.
- eat β to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
- irk β to irritate, annoy, or exasperate: It irked him to wait in line.
- pester β to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- pain β physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- perplex β to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain; confuse mentally: Her strange response perplexed me.
- get β to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- needle β a small, slender, rodlike instrument, usually of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make stitches in sewing.
- stress β importance attached to a thing: to lay stress upon good manners. Synonyms: significance, meaning, emphasis, consequence; weight, value, worth.
- hurt β to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
- break β When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
- plague β French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.