All distressing synonyms
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D d adj distressing
- dreadful — causing great dread, fear, or terror; terrible: a dreadful storm.
- troublesome — causing trouble, annoyance, or difficulty; vexatious: a troublesome situation; a troublesome person.
- frightening — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- regrettable — causing or deserving regret; unfortunate; deplorable.
- sad — Systems Analysis Definition
- poignant — keenly distressing to the feelings: poignant regret.
- deplorable — If you say that something is deplorable, you think that it is very bad and unacceptable.
- painful — affected with, causing, or characterized by pain: a painful wound; a painful night; a painful memory.
- nagging — continually faultfinding, complaining, or petulant: a nagging parent.
- fearful — causing or apt to cause fear; frightening: a fearful apparition.
- grievous — causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
- woeful — full of woe; wretched; unhappy: a woeful situation.
- afflictive — causing pain or misery
- distressful — causing or involving distress: the distressful circumstances of poverty and sickness.
adjective distressing
- upsetting — overturned: an upset milk pail.
- worrying — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
- difficult — not easily or readily done; requiring much labor, skill, or planning to be performed successfully; hard: a difficult job.
- stressful — full of stress or tension: the stressful days before a war.