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| 1. | [ adjective ] causing distress or worry or anxiety | |
| Synonyms: | disturbing troubling perturbing worrisome worrying distressful | |
| Examples: | "distressing (or disturbing) news" "lived in heroic if distressful isolation" "a revelation that was most perturbing" "a new and troubling thought" "a worrisome predicament" "a worrying time" |
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| Related terms: | heavy | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] bad; unfortunate | |
| Synonyms: | deplorable sorry sad pitiful lamentable | |
| Examples: | "my finances were in a deplorable state" "a lamentable decision" "her clothes were in sad shape" "a sorry state of affairs" |
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| Related terms: | bad | |
| Similar spelling: |
distressingly distress distressed disturbing distressful distrain distraint disturbingly distressfully distress_call destress distrust diestrus disturber disturbed distorted diestrous |
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