distressful
distressful adjective: causing or feeling distress, anxiety, or strain; distressing.
Adjective
distressful (comparative more distressful, superlative most distressful)
- Causing or feeling distress, anxiety, or strain; distressing.
- There, vvhile above the giddy tempeſt flies, / And all around diſtreſsful yells ariſe, / The penſive exile, bending vvith his vvoe, / To ſtop too fearful, and too faint to go.1764 December 19 (indicated as 1765), Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or A Prospect of Society. A Poem. […], London: […] J[ohn] Newbery, […], →OCLC, page 21
- Once more, that fulness of prophetic joy, / With which this unborn Jubilee he mark'd / Through the long vista of distressful years, / While the dark war-clouds gathering at his feet / Involved the scene.1827, Lydia Sigourney, “On the Death of John Adams”, in Poems […] , Boston: S.G. Goodrich, →OCLC, pages 191–192
distressful meaning in Urdu
distressful in Urdu
- distressful
- اذیت ناک aziyat nāk
Forms of distressful
| comparative | more distressful |
|---|---|
| superlative | most distressful |
| alternative form | distressfull |
Origin of distressful
From distress + -ful.
Words formed from distressful
Questions about distressful
- What does distressful mean?
- Distressful means causing or feeling distress, anxiety, or strain; distressing.
- What is distressful in Urdu?
- Distressful in Urdu is اذیت ناک (aziyat nāk). See Distressful meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is distressful?
- Distressful is an adjective.
Words near distressful in the dictionary
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