11 Letter Words for Distressing
distressing
10 Letter Words for Distressing
disserting
9 Letter Words for Distressing
desisting, dirtiness, disinters, dressings, indigests, insisters, resisting, rigidness, ringsides, sistering, stressing
8 Letter Words for Distressing
desiring, dingiest, dirigent, disgests, disgress, disinter, disnests, dissents, disserts, distress, dressing, girniest, grissens, igniters, indigest, inditers, indrises, insiders, insisted, insister, instress, nitrides, reinsist, reisting, residing, resiting, restings, ridgiest, rigidest, rindiest, ringside, sinister, stingers, stingier, striding, strigine, stringed, tidiness, tressing, trigness
7 Letter Words for Distressing
designs, desists, dieting, digests, digress, dingers, dingier, dingies, diriges, dirties, dirting, disgest, disnest, disrest, disring, dissent, dissert, dissing, dissite, ditsier, editing, engirds, entiris, estrins, grissen, grisset, ignited, igniter, ignites, indiges, inditer, indites, ingests, ingress, inserts, insider, insides, insists, neritid, nidgets, nitride, nitrids, resigns, resists, resting, ridiest, ridings, ringite, risings, sdeigns, seising, sensist, serting, siderin, sidings, siering, signers, signets, signist, singers, sinters, sissier, sissing, sistern, sisters, sistine, sisting, sitings, snidest, steding, stinged, stinger, stiring, strides, striges, strines, strings, tidiers, tidings, tiering, tigress, tigrine, tinders, tineids, tirings
6 Letter Words for Distressing
deigns, deiist, deisin, deists, derigs, dering, design, desist, destin, dieing, diesis, digest, digits, diners, dinger, dinges, direst, dirges, dirgie, dirige, dirten, disert, dister, diting, dreint, driest, engird, engirt, engrid, estrin, geists, girned, girnie, girted, gneiss, greins, grides, grinds, grised, grists, ideist, ignite, indies, indite, indris, inerts, ingest, ingirt, insert, insets, inside, insist, insite, inters, intire, irides, irised, irises, isseis, issite, nidget, nigers, nisses, niters, nitred, nitrid, reding, reigns, reists, renigs, resids, resign, resing, resins, resist, resits, restis, rident, ridges, riding, rigids, ringed, rinsed, rinses, rising, sdeign, sdeins, seniti, sering, serins, siders, sidest, siding, sients, sigint, signed, signer, signet, sinder, singed, singer, singes, sinter, sirens, siress, siring, sisted, sisten, sister, siting, snider, snides, snirts, steins, stends, sterid, sterin, sterns, stinge, stings, stired, stires, streng, stress, stride, strids, strigs, strind, strine, string, teiids, teinds, tessin, tidier, tidies, tiding, tigers, tigris, tinder, tineid, tinged, tinger, tinges, tingid, tinier, tinies, tiring, trends, tresis, triens, trined, trines
5 Letter Words for Distressing
deign, deist, dents, derig, derns, detin, diets, digit, digne, diner, dines, dinge, dings, dints, dirge, dirts, distn, distr, diter, dites, dregs, dreng, drent, dress, drest, dries, edits, egrid, ensis, entsi, ering, geist, geits, genii, genit, gents, gests, getid, girds, giris, girns, girse, girts, gists, gites, gnide, grein, greit, grens, gride, grids, grind, grins, grint, grist, grits, ident, idest, idite, ignis, indie, indri, inert, inger, inset, instr, inter, intis, irids, iring, issei, iters, neist, nerds, nerts, nests, nides, nidge, niger, niris, nisei, nisse, niter, nitid, redig, regin, reign, reins, reist, rends, renig, rents, resid, resin, resit, rests, retin, riden, rides, ridge, rigid, rinds, rines, ringe, rings, rinse, risen, rises, rites, sdein, segni, seirs, sends, sengi, senit, senti, sents, sergt, serin, sesti, sider, sides, siens, sient, siest, signs, sinds, sined, sines, singe, sings, sired, siren, sires, siris, sises, sists, sited, sites, sneds, snide, snies, snigs, snirt, snite, snits, ssing, steds, steid, stein, stend, steng, stens, steri, stern, stied, sties, stine, sting, stire, stirs, strid, strig, teiid, teind, tends, terns, tides, tiens, tiers, tiger, tiges, tinds, tined, tines, tinge, tingi, tings, tired, tires, trend, tress, tride, tried, tries, trigs, trine, trins, tsine
4 Letter Words for Distressing
deis, deni, dens, dent, dern, desi, dess, deti, detn, dier, dies, diet, digs, dine, ding, dins, dint, dire, dirt, dist, dite, dits, dreg, drie, dsri, edit, ends, engr, engs, entr, ergs, erin, eris, erns, erst, ests, geds, gein, geir, geit, gens, gent, gers, gess, gest, gets, gids, gied, gien, gies, gins, gird, gire, giri, girn, girt, gise, gist, gite, gits, gren, gret, grid, grin, gris, grit, ides, inde, init, inst, inti, intr, ired, ires, irid, iris, isdn, ised, isis, isnt, iter, neds, negs, nerd, ness, nest, neti, nets, nide, nidi, nids, nied, nies, nisi, nist, nits, reds, regd, regs, regt, rein, reit, rend, rent, rest, retd, rets, rgen, ride, rids, ries, rigs, rind, rine, ring, rins, rise, rist, rite, rits, segs, seir, seis, seit, send, sens, sent, serg, sers, sert, sess, sets, side, sidi, sids, sien, sier, sign, sind, sine, sing, sins, sire, siri, sirs, sise, sisi, siss, sist, site, siti, sits, sned, snig, snit, sris, ssed, sted, steg, sten, ster, stge, stid, stie, stir, stre, teds, tegs, tend, teng, tens, tern, tide, tidi, tids, tied, tien, tier, ties, tige, tigs, tind, tine, ting, tins, tire, tres, trid, trie, trig, trin
3 Letter Words for Distressing
deg, dei, den, der, des, det, die, dig, din, dir, dis, dit, dsr, eds, eir, end, eng, ens, erd, erg, ern, ers, ert, esd, esr, ess, est, gds, ged, gen, ger, get, gid, gie, gin, gis, git, gns, grs, gtd, gte, ide, ids, ign, ind, ing, ins, int, ire, irs, ise, isn, ist, itd, its, ned, neg, nei, net, nid, nie, nig, nis, nit, red, reg, rei, res, rid, rie, rig, rin, rit, rnd, rte, rti, sds, sed, seg, sei, sen, ser, set, sgd, sie, sig, sin, sir, sis, sit, sri, sse, std, stg, str, tdr, ted, teg, ten, ter, tes, tgn, tid, tie, tig, tin, tis, tng, tri, trs, tsi, tss
Definitions for Distressing
[1] great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
[2] a state of extreme necessity or misfortune.
[3] the state of a ship or airplane requiring immediate assistance, as when on fire in transit.
[4] that which causes pain, suffering, trouble, danger, etc.
[5] liability or exposure to pain, suffering, trouble, etc.; danger: a damsel in distress.
[6] Law . the legal seizure and detention of the goods of another as security or satisfaction for debt, etc.; the act of distraining. the thing seized in distraining.
[7] to dent, scratch, or stain (furniture, lumber, or the like) so as to give an appearance of age.
[8] afflicted with or suffering distress: distress livestock; distress wheat.
[9] caused by or indicative of distress or hardship: distress prices; distress borrowing.
[10] to afflict with great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; trouble; worry; bother.
[11] to subject to pressure, stress, or strain; embarrass or exhaust by strain: to be distressed by excessive work.
[12] to compel by pain or force of circumstances: His suffering distressed him into committing suicide.
[13] to cause mental pain to; upset badly
[14] (usually passive) to subject to financial or other trouble
[15] to damage (esp furniture), as by scratching or denting it, in order to make it appear older than it is
[16] law a less common word for distrain
[17] archaic to compel
[18] mental pain; anguish
[19] the act of distressing or the state of being distressed
[20] physical or financial trouble
[21] in distress (of a ship, aircraft, etc) in dire need of help
[22] law the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of or in satisfaction of a debt, claim, etc; distraint the property thus seized US (as modifier ) distress merchandise
Words related to Distressing
distressdreadful, troublesome, frightening, regrettable, sad, poignant, deplorable, painful, nagging, fearful, grievous, woeful, afflictive, distressful
Words nearby Distressing
distressdistrainee, distraint, distrait, distraite, distraught, distress, distress call, distress flag, distress frequency, distress gun, distress merchandise
Origin of Distressing
1250–1300; (noun) Middle English destresse < Anglo-French distresse, destresse, Old French < Vulgar Latin *districtia, equivalent to Latin district(us ) (see district) + -ia -y3; (v.) Middle English destressen < Anglo-French destresser (Old French destrecier ), derivative of the noun
Other words from Distressing
dis·tress·ing·ly , adverb
pre·dis·tress , noun, verb (used with object)
dis•tress′ adj.
Word origin for Distressing
C13: from Old French destresse distress, via Vulgar Latin, from Latin districtus divided in mind; see distrain
Synonyms for Distressing
deplorable, dreadful, frightening, painful, poignant, regrettable, sad, troublesome, nagging, afflictive, distressful, fearful, grievous, woeful
