distressful

  • 111dismaying — Synonyms and related words: affecting, afflictive, alarming, awing, baffling, bewildering, bitter, bleak, bothering, cheerless, chilling, comfortless, confounding, confusing, daunting, deplorable, depressing, depressive, deterrent, deterring,… …

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  • 112disquieting — Synonyms and related words: agitating, alarming, annoying, awing, bothersome, breathtaking, chafing, charged, chilling, cliff hanging, daunting, deterrent, deterring, disconcerting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, distracting, distressful …

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  • 113distressing — Synonyms and related words: acute, affecting, afflictive, agonizing, annoying, atrocious, baleful, baneful, biting, bitter, bleak, bothersome, calamitous, chafing, cheerless, comfortless, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive,… …

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  • 114disturbing — Synonyms and related words: aggravating, agitating, alarming, annoying, awkward, baffling, bewildering, bothering, bothersome, breathtaking, chafing, charged, cliff hanging, confounding, confusing, crushing, discomposing, disconcerting, dismaying …

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  • 115dolorous — Synonyms and related words: affecting, afflicted, afflictive, aggrieved, anguished, bitter, bleak, calamitous, careworn, cheerless, comfortless, deplorable, depressing, depressive, dire, discomforting, dismal, dismaying, distressful, distressing …

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  • 116dreary — Synonyms and related words: Quaker colored, acier, affecting, afflictive, apocalyptic, arid, ashen, ashy, bad, baleful, banausic, baneful, barren, bitter, black, blah, blank, bleak, bloodless, blue, bodeful, boding, boring, broken record,… …

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  • 117excruciating — Synonyms and related words: acute, afflictive, agonizing, atrocious, biting, consuming, cramping, cruel, desolating, distressful, distressing, exquisite, extreme, gnawing, grave, griping, hard, harrowing, harsh, heartbreaking, heartrending,… …

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  • 118fraught — Synonyms and related words: anxious, attended by, burdened, charged, cumbered, distressful, distressing, encumbered, freighted, fretful, full charged, full fraught, hampered, heavy laden, laden, loaded, nerve racking, oppressed, overburdened,… …

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  • 119fretting — Synonyms and related words: ablation, ablative, abradant, abrasion, abrasive, annoying, antsy, antsy pantsy, anxiety, anxious, attrition, attritive, bothersome, breathless, breathless impatience, buffing, burnishing, chafe, chafing, detrition,… …

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  • 120grievous — Synonyms and related words: abominable, acute, affecting, afflictive, aggrieved, anguished, appalling, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beneath contempt, bitter, black, blameworthy, bleak, brutal, burdensome, calamitous, careworn,… …

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