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. Devora Kestel:

   The isolation, the fear, the uncertainty, the economic turmoil - they all cause or could cause psychological distress.

2. Steven Baffico:

   We're starting to feel some of the knock on effects from energy and distress in those markets, over the last couple of days, that's spread into the financial system. It's difficult to find a lot of momentum to the upside for any sustained period of time.

3. Thomas Paine:

   The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

4. Dori Hutchinson:

   BU is listening, BU cares, we're listening because there's so much student distress out there and we know from the research ... two-thirds of the students, when they're really struggling, they don't go to campus mental health professionals or faculty or even their parents. They go to each other.

5. Frank Chung:

   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.