DISTRESSED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does distressed mean?
• DISTRESSED (adjective)
The adjective DISTRESSED has 4 senses:
1. facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
2. generalized feeling of distress
3. suffering severe physical strain or distress
4. afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
Familiarity information: DISTRESSED used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• DISTRESSED (adjective)
Meaning:
Facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
Synonyms:
hard-pressed; hard put; distressed; in a bad way
Context examples:
distressed companies need loans and technical advice / financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices / we were hard put to meet the mortgage paymentng / it was apparent that the magazine was in trouble / found themselves in a bad way financially
Similar:
troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)
Meaning:
Generalized feeling of distress
Synonyms:
dysphoric; distressed; unhappy
Also:
dejected (affected or marked by low spirits)
unhappy (experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent)
Meaning:
Suffering severe physical strain or distress
Synonyms:
in a bad way; stressed; distressed
Context examples:
he dropped out of the race, clearly distressed and having difficulty breathing / the victim was in a bad way and needed immediate attention
Similar:
troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)
Meaning:
Afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
Synonyms:
worried; upset; disquieted; disturbed; distressed
Context examples:
too upset to say anything / spent many disquieted moments / distressed about her son's leaving home / lapsed into disturbed sleep / worried parents / a worried frown / one last worried check of the sleeping children
Similar:
troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)
