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Distressful

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Causing or feeling distress, anxiety, or strain; distressing.

    "There, vvhile above the giddy tempeſt flies, / And all around diſtreſsful yells ariſe, / The penſive exile, bending vvith his vvoe, / To ſtop too fearful, and too faint to go."

Adjective
  1. 1
    causing distress or worry or anxiety wordnet

Etymology

From distress + -ful.

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