Definitions for distressing
Overview of verb distress
The verb distress has 2 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. straiten, distress
(bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship)
2. distress
(cause mental pain to; "The news of her child's illness distressed the mother")
Overview of adj distressing
The adj distressing has 2 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (3) distressing, distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying
(causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time")
2. deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry
(bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs")
