DISTRESSED Synonyms

• troubled emotionally and usually deeply

• physically disturbed or set in motion

• experiencing a sudden sense of danger

• experiencing intense pain especially mental pain

• eagerly desirous

• causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

• bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities

• bearing a physically heavy weight or load

• brought low in spirit

• affected or marked by low spirits

• providing no shelter or sustenance

• crushed by grief

• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

• reduce in population

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled

• causing dejection

• struck with fear, dread, or consternation

• deeply agitated especially from emotion

• marked by or showing hopelessness

• full of sorrow

• sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled

• very unhappy; full of misery

• deserving or inciting pity

• of the most contemptible kind

• of very poor quality or condition

• characterized by physical misery

• contemptibly small in amount

• emotionally hurt or upset or annoyed

• thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term)

• experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness

• of things that make you feel sad

• bad; unfortunate

• experiencing intense pain especially mental pain

• tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears