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Textual thesaurus for "distressful"

(adj) perturbing, worrisome, worrying, troubling, distressing, disturbing

causing distress or worry or anxiety

distressing (or disturbing) news; lived in heroic if something distressful isolation; a disturbing amount of crime; a revelation that was most perturbing; a new and troubling thought; in a particularly worrisome predicament; a worrying situation; a worrying time