Synonyms and Antonyms of distressful
1
marked by or causing agitation or uncomfortable feelings
- the distressful period during which we waited to learn who had made the cut
agitating, anxious, creepy, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, fraught, hairy, nail-biting, nerve-racking (or nerve-wracking), nervous, restless, tense, uneasy, unnerving, unsettling, worrisome
2
of a kind to cause great distress
- the distressful living conditions in the refugee camp
deplorable, distressing, grievous, heartbreaking, heartrending, lamentable, regrettable, tragic (also tragical), unfortunate, unlucky, woeful
troublesome, vexatious
affecting, doleful, moving, piteous, poignant, ruthful, touching
awful, dire, dreadful, fearful, severe, terrible
alarming, disturbing, perturbing, traumatic, unsettling
crushing, excruciating, harrowing, horrible, horrifying, intolerable, overwhelming, shocking, sickening, unbearable
miserable, pitiful, sad, wretched
calamitous, disastrous
painful, raging, sharp
