Synonyms for distressed
- adjective
Most common
unhappy troubled distraught pained hard put hard-pressed straitened
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Unhappy — anxious or uneasy
unhappy, troubled, distraught, pained, poor, worried, disturbed, upset, tormented, sad, perturbed, tortured, disquieted, overwrought, dysphoric, unglued, wrought-up, heartsore
2. Hard-pressed
3. Straitened
Definitions
- adj. 1
Anxious or uneasy.
She is distressed because she can't find her keys.
- adj. 2
Damaged.
- adj. 3
Offered for sale after foreclosure.
Related words
- Word family
- distressedness
Example sentences
- worried Tom isn't the least bit worried about the weather.
- troubled I have no intention of fishing in troubled waters.
- distraught This child is distraught and may lose his mind.
- pained It pained Ziri to see that house in such a sorry state.
- stressed Spider mites attack ivies that are water-stressed.
- vexatious The lawsuit was dismissed as vexatious and meritless.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| distressed | rising | |
| worried | rising | |
| troubled | rising | |
| distraught | rising | |
| pained | rising | |
| stressed | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- sad1
- 4 letters
- poor1
- 5 letters
- upset2
- 6 letters
- pained1
- 7 letters
- worried2, unhappy3, pinched1, unglued2, aflight
- 8 letters
- stressed1, troubled2, tortured2
- 9 letters
- disturbed2, tormented3, perturbed2, vexatious3, dysphoric3, heartsore
- 10 letters
- distraught2, straitened, disquieted
- 11 letters
- overwrought3, necessitous
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (upset2 = 2 syllables).