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distressingadjective causing worry or anxietydistressing signs that another war might be imminent discomforting, discomposing, disquieting, disturbing, nagging, nasty, perturbing, troublesome, troubling, troublous, unsettling, upsetting, worrisome daunting, demoralizing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, dispiritingchilling, frightening, scaryharassing, persecutive, persecutoryalarming, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, hair-raising, horrendous, horrible, horrifying, intimidating, scary, shocking, terrible, terrifying reassuring calming, quieting, settling, soothingcomforting, consoling, dreamy, inviting, lulling, narcotic, pacifying, relaxing, sedative, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing) of a kind to cause great distressthe distressing death of our favorite actor deplorable, distressful, grievous, heartbreaking, heartrending, lamentable, regrettable, tragic(also tragical), unfortunate, unlucky, woeful troublesome, vexatiousaffecting, doleful, moving, piteous, poignant, ruthful, touchingawful, dire, dreadful, fearful, severe, terriblealarming, disturbing, perturbing, traumatic, unsettlingcrushing, excruciating, harrowing, horrible, horrifying, intolerable, overwhelming, shocking, sickening, unbearablemiserable, pitiful, sad, wretchedcalamitous, disastrouspainful, raging, sharp gratifying, pleasing, rewarding, satisfyingcomforting, encouraging, hearteningcheering, heartwarming, inspiringfortunate, happy, lucky marked by or causing agitation or uncomfortable feelingsthe distressing habit of constantly fiddling with her hair agitating, anxious, creepy, disquieting, distressful, disturbing, fraught, hairy, nail-biting, nerve-racking(or nerve-wracking), nervous, restless, tense, uneasy, unnerving, unsettling, worrisome bothersome, troublesomeforeboding, misgivingdiscouraging, disheartening, strainedrestive, unrestfulawkward, embarrassing calming, comfortable, easy, peaceful, quiet, quieting, tranquil restfulpacific distressingverbpresent participle of distressto trouble the mind of; to make uneasydon't let all the bad news distress you agitating, ailing, alarming(also alaruming), bothering, concerning, derailing, discomforting, discomposing, dismaying, disquieting, distempering, distracting, disturbing, exercising, flurrying, frazzling, freaking (out), fussing, hagriding, perturbing, undoing, unhinging, unsettling, upsetting, weirding out, worrying aggravating, angering, annoying, bugging, chafing, chivying(or chivvying), exasperating, fretting, galling, getting, grating, harassing, harrying, irking, irritating, nettling, peeving, pestering, piquing, putting off, putting out, riling, vexingbedeviling, haunting, plaguingabashing, confounding, confusing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discountenancing, embarrassing, fazing, flustering, jarring, mortifying, nonplussing(also nonplusing), rattling, shaking updaunting, demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting, unnerving calming, composing, quieting, settling, soothing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing) allaying, alleviating, assuagingappeasing, conciliating, mollifying, pacifying, placating, propitiating |