Synonyms of distressing
- 1 Syllable
- sad
- 2 Syllables
- troublous, pressing, mournful, poignant, grievous, painful, sorest, heat-on, fearful, sorer, nagging, ruthful, heaton, piteous, smarting, dreadful, woeful, awful, shocking, dolent, hurtful
- 3 Syllables
- pitiable, pitiful, tormenting, alarming, torturous, dolorous, dirgeful, disturbing, hurry-up, frightening, pathetic, harrowing, sorrowful, perturbing, disquieting, fearsome, heartbreaking, heartrending, provoking, abscessed, godawful, onerous, unsettling, upsetting, staggering, depressing, distressful, doleful
- 4 Syllables
- lamentable, deplorable, high-priority, bothersome, troublesome, dolesome, dolorific, embarrassing, overtaxing, regrettable, nettlesome, ulcerated, afflictive
- 5 Syllables
- demoralizing, insufferable, commiserable, agitative, uncomfortable, rebarbative
- 6 Syllables
- unsatisfactory, dissatisfactory