Distressful

Synonyms for "distressful" (53 found)

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More general

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emotive adjective

More specific

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distressful eventdistressful situationdistressful themedistressful topic

Collocations

6 entries
distressful contextdistressful episodedistressful eventdistressful findingsdistressful newsdistressful situation

Inflections

2 entries
more distressfulmost distressful

Derivations

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similar

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Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Between the minded planetary systems occurred infinite variations of personal intercourse. As between human individuals, there were loves and hates, temperamental sympathies and antipathies, joyful and distressful intimacies, cooperations and thwartings in personal ventures and in the great common venture of building the galactic Utopia.

Source: tatoeba (10605262)

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.

Source: wiktionary

Once more, that fulness of prophetic joy, / With which this unborn Jubilee he mark'd / Through the long vista of distressful years, / While the dark war-clouds gathering at his feet / Involved the scene.

Source: wiktionary

If I'm never successful, / It won't be distressful, / 'Cos I don't care.

Source: wiktionary

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