Synonyms for distress
dɪˈstrɛsdis·tress

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1. 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.

   See synonyms for HAPPINESS.

   Synonyms:
   affliction, grief, melancholy, mourning, regret, sadness, sorrow, tribulation, trouble, wo

   Preposition:
   Grief at a loss; for a friend.

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1. distressverb

   Synonyms:
   harass, embarrass, trouble, grieve, annoy, vex, mortify, pain, disturb, afflict, worry

   Antonyms:
   soothe, compose, please, gratify, gladden, console, elate, comfort

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1. 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, woe

2. distressnoun

   a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need)

   "a ship in distress"; "she was the classic maiden in distress"

   Synonyms:
   suffering, distraint, hurt

3. distressnoun

   extreme physical pain

   "the patient appeared to be in distress"

   Synonyms:
   suffering, distraint, hurt

4. 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"

   Synonyms:
   suffering, distraint, hurt

5. straiten, distressverb

   bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship

   Synonyms:
   straiten

6. distressverb

   cause mental pain to

   "The news of her child's illness distressed the mother"

   Synonyms:
   straiten

Matched Categories

1. • Adversity
   • Pain
   • Trouble
   • Upset

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1. distressnoun

   Synonyms:
   affliction, calamity, misery, misfortune, adversity, hardship, trial, trouble, perplexity

2. distressnoun

   Synonyms:
   anguish, agony, pain, suffering, gripe, griping

3. distressnoun

   Synonyms:
   privation, destitution, poverty, indigence, want, straits

4. distressverb

   Synonyms:
   afflict, perplex, pain, trouble, grieve, make unhappy, make miserable

5. distressverb

   Synonyms:
   (Law.) take, seize, distrain

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1. distressnoun

   Synonyms:
   anguish, agony, torture, sorrow, grief, misery, affliction, adversity, disaster, calamity, misfortune, straits, poverty, destitution, indigence

2. distressverb

   Synonyms:
   pain, grieve, afflict, wound, distrain

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1. 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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How to use distress in a sentence?

1. Horace Mann:

   To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

2. Manoj Sharma:

   That was contributing to mild distress in this person.

3. Dominik Bach:

   When we talk about reducing fear memory, we’re not talking about deleting the memory of what actually happened, the participants may not forget that they received a shock when the screen was red, but they ‘forget’ to be instinctively scared when they next see a red screen. Learning to fear threats is an important ability … helping us to avoid dangers. (But) over-prediction of threat can cause tremendous suffering and distress in anxiety disorders such as PTSD.

4. Independence Police Chief Frank Edwards:

   Everybody at the facility was doing the best they could under the circumstances, what hurt me, I guess the most, was to see that many people in distress at one time, in one place.

5. Chris Magnus:

   We continue to rescue and provide medical assistance to those in distress, my message to those considering taking this dangerous journey is simple: this is not an easy passage, the human smugglers only care about your money – not your life or the lives of your loved ones, and you will be placed in removal proceedings from the United States if you cross the border without legal authorization and are unable to establish a legal basis to remain.