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Synonyms for distress
dɪˈstrɛsdis·tress
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
distress
Grief is acute mental pain resulting from loss, misfortune, or deep disappointment. Grief is more acute and less enduring than sorrow. Sorrow and grief are for definite cause; sadness and melancholy may arise from a vague sense of want or loss, from a low state of health, or other ill-defined cause; sadness may be momentary; melancholy is more enduring, and may become chronic. Affliction expresses a deep heart-sorrow and is applied also to the misfortune producing such sorrow; mourning most frequently denotes sorrow publicly expressed, or the public expression of such sorrow as may reasonably be expected; as, it is common to observe thirty days of mourning on the death of an officer of state.
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Synonyms:
affliction, grief, melancholy, mourning, regret, sadness, sorrow, tribulation, trouble, woPreposition:
Grief at a loss; for a friend.
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Princeton's WordNet
distress, hurt, sufferingnoun
psychological suffering
"the death of his wife caused him great distress"
Synonyms:
hurt, injury, detriment, harm, excruciation, damage, distraint, suffering, trauma, agony, scathe, woedistressnoun
a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need)
"a ship in distress"; "she was the classic maiden in distress"
distressnoun
extreme physical pain
"the patient appeared to be in distress"
distress, distraintverb
the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim
"Originally distress was a landlord's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage but now the landlord is given a landlord's lien"
straiten, distressverb
bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship
Synonyms:
straitendistressverb
cause mental pain to
"The news of her child's illness distressed the mother"
Synonyms:
straiten
Dictionary of English Synonymes
distressnoun
Synonyms:
affliction, calamity, misery, misfortune, adversity, hardship, trial, trouble, perplexitydistressnoun
distressnoun
Synonyms:
privation, destitution, poverty, indigence, want, straitsdistressverb
Synonyms:
afflict, perplex, pain, trouble, grieve, make unhappy, make miserabledistressverb
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "distress":
anguish, plight, suffering, distressed, hardship, misery, despair, helplessness, pain, dismay, danger, desperation, anxiety, beacon, agony, sorrow, grief, difficulty
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#1938 | pain | |
#2266 | damage | |
#2620 | injury | |
#3124 | trouble | |
#5005 | worry | |
#5013 | danger | |
#5093 | hurt | |
#5311 | difficulty | |
#5907 | suffering | |
#6159 | harm | |
#6386 | anxiety | |
#9538 | trauma | |
#10700 | grief | |
#11276 | beacon | |
#12121 | regret | |
#12669 | distress | |
#12972 | wo | |
#14621 | sorrow | |
#15487 | misery | |
#15811 | despair | |
#18051 | sadness | |
#18786 | hardship | |
#19478 | mourning | |
#19943 | distressed | |
#20439 | agony | |
#20785 | annoy | |
#22266 | plight | |
#23336 | disturb | |
#23875 | desperation | |
#25291 | melancholy | |
#25704 | woe | |
#27991 | anguish | |
#30803 | detriment | |
#31141 | grieve | |
#33345 | dismay | |
#34128 | harass | |
#36859 | tribulation | |
#37535 | affliction | |
#43520 | embarrass | |
#49680 | helplessness | |
#54523 | vex | |
#73447 | afflict | |
#219145 | mortify | |
#254604 | distraint |
How to use distress in a sentence?
When you play a character, you put parts of you in it. But I am a very different person off-screen. I am not so boisterous and not so tomboyish, in fact my friends bully me and I am like a damsel in distress. When you do a TV show, you become the character as you end up spending 14-15 hours on the sets.
Foster Jr. was in mental distress. We could see he was not in the best frame of mind, and we indicated that to the police chief.
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Instagram Mila and I've been finding charities that are focusing on getting PPE into the country, charities that are helping feed kids, businesses that are in distress.
I trained at NYU for five years, including a research year, and I've really grown to love the people I work with and the community that's here. These are the faculty and the residents who have mentored me, who have helped shape the person I am today, so seeing them in distress and knowing that I could do something potentially to help them was a really big factor in terms of me wanting to help them out and contribute something.
I didn’t know how to even think about it, I didn’t know how to accept it, I didn’t know how to not blame myself or think it was my fault. It’s something that really changed my life, it changed who I was completely. It changed my body, it changed my thoughts. it can trigger patterns in your body of physical distress.
Translations for distress
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- nødsituation, ubehagDanish
- bedrücken, Notlage, Kummer, Seenot, NotGerman
- αγωνία, κίνδυνος, κατάσχω, αναστατώνω, στενοχωρώ, συμφορά, συντριβή, θλίβωGreek
- apuro, peligro, ansiedadSpanish
- hätäFinnish
- détresseFrench
- cráighIrish
- aircScottish Gaelic
- संकटHindi
- kesulitanIndonesian
- stórhætta, vá, óþægindiIcelandic
- دڵ تهنگی, بێچارهیی, شڕKurdish
- uhitea, māteatea, nonope, ahotea, āwangawanga, mōreareaMāori
- stress, onder, zetten, benauwen, drukDutch
- ubehag, nødsituasjonNorwegian
- zagrożenie, niebezpieczeństwoPolish
- penhorar, perigo, angustiar, desgastar, desconfortoPortuguese
- primejdie, suferință, pericol, deranjaRomanian
- го́ре, несча́стье, беда́, бе́дствиеRussian
- क्लेशः, आपद्, दुःखं,, शोकःSanskrit
- muka, distresSerbo-Croatian
- shqetësojAlbanian
- nödsituation, obehag, nödlägeSwedish
- ความทุกข์Thai
- sıkıntıTurkish
- nỗi đau hoặc nỗi buồn lòngVietnamese
- 苦难Chinese
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