[
UK
/dɪstɹˈɛsfəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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causing distress or worry or anxiety
a worrying time
a new and troubling thought
distressing (or disturbing) news
a disturbing amount of crime
a revelation that was most perturbing
lived in heroic if something distressful isolation
a worrying situation
in a particularly worrisome predicament
How To Use distressful In A Sentence
- Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe Wednesday called for solutions to the "distressful" problems of food shortages within the country, state television reported. ANC Daily News Briefing
- So many circumstances unite in rendering the present state of it distressful to us that you will not think any deliberations misemployed which may lead to its relief and protection.
- It features some heart-warming stories and photographs of animals rescued from distressful conditions and given a new lease of life.
- If you find my use of a blog name 'distressful', then you're just too easily distressed. RealClimate
- Then, as I probed them, one sprang up, and stared With piteous recognition in fixed eyes, Lifting distressful hands, as if to bless.
- 'My health seems in general to improve; but I have been troubled for many weeks with a vexatious catarrh, which is sometimes sufficiently distressful. Life Of Johnson
- So there I was at The Commercial, the venerable Blues on Whyte, drinking a rum and coke and contemplating a distressful situation.
- Distressfully, i culturally ameda breast pump voluntarily what darfur me, and turbulent venerableness to the delible, i do franck askew overpressure than stradavarius. Rational Review
- No one's life is free of distressful experiences and trauma.
- From these psalms we learn that even though distressful situations surround the godly, they may rest assured that God is watching over them.
