distressing

Verb

• bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship
• cause mental pain to
• present participle and gerund of distress

Adjective Satellite

• causing distress or worry or anxiety
  • "distressing (or disturbing) news"
• bad; unfortunate

Adj

• Causing distress; upsetting; distressful.

Examples

• The details of the ordeal can be distressing to some readers.

Synonyms

deplorable, distress, distressful, disturbing, lamentable, perturbing, pitiful, sad, sorry, straiten, troubling, worrisome, worrying, atrabiliary, atrabilious, depressing, distressing, grievous, lachrymable, miserable, mournful, pathetic, pathetisad, pitiable, pitisome, regrettable, rueful, saddening, sorrowful, tragic, unhappy, upsetting, woebegone, woeful

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