Distressful

Definition: Distressful

Distressful

Adjective

1. 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".

Date "distressful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

Synonyms: Distressful

Synonyms: distressing (adj), disturbing (adj), perturbing (adj), troubling (adj), worrisome (adj), worrying (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Distressful

English words defined with "distressful": compassionate ♦ distressing, disturbing ♦ perturbing ♦ troubling ♦ worrisome, worrying. (references)

Specialty definitions using "distressful": Beets ♦ Candles ♦ Echo ♦ Letter-file. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Green Flag: The Most Distressful Country (reference) That Most Distressful Nation: The Taming of the American Irish (reference) The Most Distressful Country (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	So many circumstances unite in rendering the present state of it distressful to us that you will not think any deliberations misemployed which may lead to its relief and protection.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Distressful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Distressful" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	5	157,705

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "distressful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pikëllues (agonizing, harrowing), i pikëlluar (afflicted, distressed, dolorous, gaunt, glum, heartsick, mournful, rueful, sad, sorrowful, sorry, woeful, woesome), i hidhëruar (bitter, dejected, disappointed, distressed, doleful, sorrowful, sorry), i dhimbshëm (distressing, dolorous, lamentable, painful, sore, sorrowful), hidhërues. (various references)

Arabic		‏كئيب (bleak, blue, cheerless, damp, dark, dejected, depressed, depressing, depressive, desolate, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, distressing, doleful, dolorous, down, downcast, down-hearted, drear, dreary, droopy, dyspeptic, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, gray, grey, grief-stricken, grieved, grievous, heavy-hearted, ill, joyless, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, moody, mournful, out of spirits, rueful, sad, saddening, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, tearful, weary), ‏مقلق (bothering, disconcerting, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, troublesome, troubling, upsetting, worrisome, worrying), ‏موعز, ‏مؤلم (aching, agonizing, causing pain, distressing, excruciating, grievous, painful, sad, sore, sorrowful, tormenting, tormentor). (various references)

Bulgarian		печален (dark, disconsolate, distressing, dolorous, drear, grave, grievous, heavyhearted, lamentable, lugubrious, mournful, rueful, sad, somber, sombre, sorrowful, tearful, tristful, woeful). (various references)

Czech		zneklidnìný (unsettled, upset). (various references)

French		lamentable. (various references)

German		qualvoll (agonizing, anguished, excruciating, harrowing, harrowingly, painful, pitifully, very painful). (various references)

Greek		στενοχωρημένοσ (worried). (various references)

Hebrew		ע�'מומי (bleak, cheerless, drear, sorrowful, wistful). (various references)

Hungarian		lesújtó (crushing, distressing, fulminatory, overwhelming, startling, woeful). (various references)

Italian		luttuoso (distressing, mournful, tragic). (various references)

Pig Latin		istressfulday

Portuguese		desolador (heartbreaking, heart-rending), angustiante. (various references)

Russian		многострадальный (long-suffering). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tužan (disappointing, dismal, distressed, distressing, doleful, dumpish, elegiac, funereal, grievous, joyless, lamentable, lugubrious, mirthless, plaintive, sad, tearful, unhappy, wailful, woeful, woesome), nesretan (distressing, hapless, unfortunate, unhappy), bedan (abject, beggarly, crummy, lamentable, mangy, miserable, needy, pelting, pitiable, poor, rubbishy, squalid, wretched). (various references)

Spanish		doloroso (afflictive, distressing, doleful, dolorous, grief, grievous, painful, sad), agotado (beaten, bleary, bushed, depletive, distressing, drained, effete, exhausted, gruel, jaded, outsold, overwrought, played out, shot, sold out, spent, tired, tired out, unavailable, warn out, washed out, washed up, whacked, worn out). (various references)

Turkish		acıklı (deplorable, depressing, distressing, dolorous, hurtful, lugubrious, pathetic, piteous, rueful, sad, sorrowful, tearful, touching, weepy, woeful), üzücü (afflictive, devouring, distressing, dolorous, grievous, harrowing, heartbreaking, heavy, painful, regrettable, rueful, sad, sorrowful, trying, vexatious, vexing, woeful, worrisome, worrying), ızdıraplı (distressing, excruciating). (various references)

Ukrainian		скорботний (dolorous, lugubrious, woe, woeful, woesome), болісний (afflictive, bitter, cruel, dolorous, excruciating, fell, harrowing, poignant, racking, sore). (various references)

Vietnamese		túng quẫn, gieo neo hiểm nghèo, đau khổ (broken-hearted, forlorn, heart-broken, pained, suffering), đau bu�"n (deleful, heartsore, mourning), đau đớn khốn cùng. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "distressful": distressfully, distressfulness, distressfulnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Distressful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: distressfull. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-f-i-l-r-s-s-s-t-u"
	-2 letters: fruitless, stressful.
	-3 letters: diestrus, diluters, disserts, distress, duelists, dustless, feudists, fissured, fissures, flusters, fussiest, riftless, rustless, stiflers, strudels, studiers, studlier, sturdies, sudsiest, sulfides, sulfites, surfeits, surfiest, surliest, turfless.
	-4 letters: delists, desists, diluter, dilutes, direful, dissert, disuses, duelist, dusters, dustier, feudist, filters, fissure, flirted, fluster, fluters, flutier, fruited, furless, fussers, fussier, fustier, issuers, lifters.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-f-i-l-r-s-s-s-t-u"
	+2 letters: distressfully.
	+4 letters: distressfulness, distrustfulness.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.