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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1. Carsten Spohr:

   A distress call must be activated in the cockpit and only licensed pilots can do that.

2. Ethan Lindenberger:

   For certain individuals and organizations that spread misinformation, they instill fear into the public for their own gain selfishly and do so knowing that their information is incorrect. For my mother, her love, affection and care as a parent, was used to push an agenda to create a false distress, and these sources which spread misinformation should be the primary concern of the American people.

3. Peyton Manning:

   My damages include attorney’s fees, hours of detention, emotional distress and reputational harm.

4. Dipti Lavya Swain:

   Approvals should be a seamless process and anything between two to four weeks could still be bearable, sectors which are already under severe financial distress and do not concern national security should also receive faster approvals.

5. 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.