distressful

  • 101agonizing — Synonyms and related words: acute, afflictive, atrocious, biting, consuming, cramping, cruel, desolating, distressful, distressing, excruciating, exquisite, fierce, gnawing, grave, griping, hard, harrowing, harsh, heartbreaking, heartrending,… …

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  • 102annoying — Synonyms and related words: aggravating, aggravative, backbreaking, besetting, bothering, bothersome, burdensome, chafing, contentious, crushing, disquieting, distressful, distressing, disturbing, exasperating, exasperative, fretting, galling,… …

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  • 103bitter — Synonyms and related words: Siberian, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, affecting, afflictive, aftertaste, algid, alienated, amaroidal, annoying, antagonistic, antipathetic, arctic, asperous,… …

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  • 104bleak — Synonyms and related words: Siberian, affecting, afflictive, affording no hope, algid, apathetic, arctic, austere, bare, barren, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, black, blown, boreal, brisk, brumal, cheerless, chilly, cold, cold as… …

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  • 105bothersome — Synonyms and related words: aggravating, annoying, backbreaking, besetting, bothering, burdensome, chafing, crushing, disquieting, distressful, distressing, disturbing, exasperating, fretting, galling, grueling, harassing, heavy, hefty,… …

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  • 106calamitous — Synonyms and related words: afflictive, awful, baneful, black, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consuming, consumptive, deadly, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, devastating, dire, disastrous,… …

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  • 107cheerless — Synonyms and related words: affecting, afflictive, affording no hope, anguished, anxious, apathetic, bitter, bleak, bored, comfortless, deplorable, depressed, depressing, depressive, despairing, desperate, despondent, discomforting, disconsolate …

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  • 108deplorable — Synonyms and related words: abominable, affecting, afflictive, appalling, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly, beneath contempt, beneath one, bitter, blameworthy, bleak, brutal, calamitous, cheap, cheerless, comfortless, contemptible,… …

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  • 109depressing — Synonyms and related words: affecting, afflictive, bitter, black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, deplorable, depressant, depressive, discomforting, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, dismaying, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, dolorific,… …

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  • 110dismal — Synonyms and related words: Cassandra like, Cassandran, Cassandrian, Quaker colored, acier, affecting, afflictive, affording no hope, apathetic, arid, ashen, ashy, barren, bitter, black, blah, blank, bleak, bloodless, blue, canescent,… …

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