DISTRESSING Synonyms

• frightening because of an awareness of danger

• not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

• shockingly repellent; inspiring horror

• harshly ironic or sinister

• harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• causing dejection

• extremely painful

• causing distress or worry or anxiety

• causing distress or worry or anxiety

• causing an emotional disturbance

• not reassuring; tending to cause anxiety

• causing distress or worry or anxiety

• extreme mental distress

• extreme distress of body or mind

• suffer great pains or distress

• cause emotional anguish or make miserable

• the state of being tense and feeling pain

• an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress

• make unhappy

• come to feel sad

• unbearable physical pain

• extreme mental distress

• intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

• a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented

• a severe affliction

• the act of harassing someone

• torment emotionally or mentally

• treat cruelly

• subject to torture

• disturb the composure of

• how long something has existed

• an era of history having some distinctive feature

• a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises

• a prolonged period of time

• a late time of life

• begin to seem older; get older

• grow old or older

• make older

• extreme mental distress

• extreme distress of body or mind

• suffer great pains or distress

• cause emotional anguish or make miserable

• an elderly man

• any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity

• made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age

• out of fashion

• belonging to or lasting from times long ago

• shop for antiques

• give an antique appearance to

• levy a distress on

• confiscate by distress

• legally take something in place of a debt payment

• a cultivator that pulverizes or smooths the soil

• draw a harrow over (land)

• one who suffers for the sake of principle

• one who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for refusing to renounce their religion

• kill as a martyr

• torture and torment like a martyr

• coat with a patina