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, distress, 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, distress

5. straiten, distressverb

   bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship

   Synonyms:
   distress, 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. Vaile Wright:

   What we know from research on previous pandemics is that psychological distress is increased when leaders provide inconsistent, unclear and non-scientifically based information to the people that they lead, these inconsistent messages drive up stress and distress.

2. Partha Nandi:

   If you're just drinking green beer and snacks one day of the year, a few drops of the dye should not make any difference to your health, [But] you may experience some GI distress with diarrhea.

3. The Hitopadesa:

   The man who listens not to the words of affectionate friends will give joy in the time of distress to his enemies.

4. Yousef Husseini:

   Several players are in deep distress today as most producers are generating losses at the gross and EBITDA level and balance sheets are in bad shape in some cases, there is an expectation that some plants will have to close in the coming years as the economics just don't make sense.

5. David Yu:

   HNA's shareholding structure and how they structure investments has always been very complicated, and the HKA case isn't any different, the issue now is that there is some distress at the parent group, and this is obviously having implications on the underlying companies, including HKA.