distressing
Meaning of distressing
- To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
- To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
- To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age.
She distressed the new media cabinet so that it fit with the other furniture in the room.
- Causing distress; upsetting; distressful.
The details of the ordeal can be distressing to some readers.
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Hyphenation of distressing
dis-tress-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- distressing is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
distressing synonyms
Meaning distressful:
distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying
Meaning deplorable:
deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry
Meaning :
anguish, harrow, martyr, tantalise, tantalize, torment, trouble, vex, distrain, age, antique, patinate
Translation of distressing
- Italian: inquietante, conturbante, angoscioso, preoccupante, doloroso, desolante, penoso, angustioso, angosciante
- German: beunruhigend, peinlich
- Spanish: inquietante, alarmante, doloroso, dolorosa, angustioso, angustiosa
- French: inquiétant, pénible, affligeant, désolant
- Portuguese: doloroso
Words that rhyme with distressing
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