distressedadj.

/dɪˈstrɛst/poetic.

/dɪˈstrɛsɪd/

Forms: Also 1500s–1800s distrest.

Etymology: < distress v. + -ed suffix¹.

a. Afflicted with pain or trouble; sorely troubled; in sore straits. Applied spec. to a person living in impoverished circumstances.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective]

poorc1300

afflicta1393

mistada1400

aggrudged1440

afflicted1534

tribulate1575

distressed1586

rid1610

over-grieved1618

ridden1640

tribulated1682

hag-rid1691

crosseda1732

bad off1735

badly off1740

unfortunate1785

the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > [adjective]

sorelyc888

gramec893

sorrowfuleOE

unblithec897

sorryeOE

carefulOE

charyOE

sickOE

yomerOE

sorry-moodOE

sweerc1000

yomerlyOE

sorrilyOE

woea1200

balec1220

sorry?c1225

sorec1275

gremefula1300

sada1300

ruthlyc1300

thoughtfulc1300

woebegonea1325

heavyc1330

grievousc1374

woefula1375

sorrowya1382

dereful?a1400

sorousa1400

sytefula1400

teenfula1400

wrotha1400

balefulc1400

tristy?c1400

tristc1420

dolefulc1430

wapped in woec1440

yhevidc1440

dolenta1450

condolentc1460

discomforted1477

tristfula1492

sorrow1496

dram?a1513

dolorous1513

earnful?1527

troublous1535

amort1546

mournfula1558

passioned1560

sadded1566

tristive1578

distressed1586

passionate1586

sorrowed1596

distressful1601

passionful1605

sighful1606

contristed1625

anguishinga1642

sadful1658

saddened1665

tristitious1694

sick as a parrot1705

pangful1727

woesome1778

grieving1807

ruesome1833

yearned1838

doleant1861

mournsome1869

thoughted1869

tragical1887

grief-stricken1905

the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor > reduced to poverty

broken-fortuned1362

depauperatea1464

peeled?a1513

extenuate1533

withered1561

penured1570

low-ebbed1595

ruined1596

shredded1596

broken1597

beggared1609

impoverisheda1631

necessitated1646

pinched1672

crazy1700

reduced1715

straitened1716

crazed1732

poverty-struck?1750

poverty-stricken?1786

pauperized1807

poverty-smitten1819

distressed1844

out at elbows1885

poverished1900

wiped1977

1586 G. Pettie & B. Yong tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (rev. ed.) iv. f. 219 Bitter teares, which copiouslie..fell from my distressed eies.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxvii. 180 That poore distressed woman comming vnto Christ.

1601 W. Cornwallis Disc. Seneca sig. D4^v To heare the distresseds petitions.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ii. 51 Giving comfort to our distressed bodies.

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 35 This distressed Ship's Crew.

1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. v. 96 We..compassionate the Distressed.

1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. 311 His distrest countrymen.

1844 C. Ridley in U. Ridley Cecilia (1958) xv. 180 Little round mats..which she works at all the evening as if she were a distressed gentlewoman.

1867 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland v. 96 Invitations to the distressed Flemish artizans to come over and settle in England.

1932 R. Lehmann Invit. Waltz iii iv. 202 It's all right, Aunt Sybil, I swear. Don't look so like a distressed gentlewoman.

1935 E. Bowen House in Paris i. i. 19 A ‘distressed lady’..jotting down what she spent.

1967 Daily Mail 17 Nov. 10/1 A field on the other side of Oxfordshire belonging to the Distressed Gentlefolks Aid Association.

1971 Daily Tel. 16 July 7/4 Distressed gentlefolk, daughters of a Harley Street surgeon whose legacy..could not or would not foresee inflation and a dearth of husbands.

b. Of actions or conditions: Pertaining to or showing distress; in straits, sorely straitened. distressed area, a region where there is much unemployment.

ΚΠ

c1592 F. Bacon Conf. Pleasure (1870) 22 Consider how benigne eare and correspondence she gaue to the distressed requestes of that king.

1625–49 Declar. of Chas. I App., in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) 1 The distressed extremities of Our dearest Uncle the King of Denmark.

1754 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 273 It would be unkind in me to leave her in the distrest way she is in.

1785 J. Trusler Mod. Times I. 168 Their poverty and distressed situation.

1928 Britain's Industr. Future (Liberal Industr. Inq.) i. ii. 20 The continued depression of these industries entails the unemployment, on a large scale, of many..workers..and raises acute problems in a number of distressed areas.

1936 Discovery Nov. 355/2 The development of newer industries is vital to the recovery of our distressed areas, which remain the one black spot in the otherwise remarkable position of Great Britain.

1942 Times Weekly 2 Dec. 15 If their 400 hat factories became derelict they would be a distressed area.

c. Upon which a distress is levied.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [adjective] > liable to be levied upon for debt > seizing goods for debt > seized for debt

poinded1601

extendeda1625

fenced1637

distressed1896

1896 Westm. Gaz. 24 June 3/1 The Government had never said they could discriminate between land distressed and land not distressed.

d. Of furniture: see quot. 1940. Also applied to decorative materials and paintings. Originally U.S.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [adjective] > types of artistic treatment or style

antica1536

Moresque1611

barbaric1667

massive1723

popular1730

maniéré1743

regency1811

tedesco1814

massy1817

Barbaresque1831

sensualistic1838

broad1849

conventional1851

expressional1856

tight1891

stylized1898

distressed1940

pop1956

transgressive1969

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [adjective] > of materials, metals, etc. > of furniture: falsely aged

distressed1940

1940 J. Judson What Every Woman should know about Furnit. 33 If you're a real antique lover you can even buy pieces with ‘distressed’ finish—that is, with simulated marks of age and wear.

1966 Daily Tel. 4 Oct. 13/5 ‘We're using a lot of distressed furniture,’ said the American designer solemnly... The current vogue in America is for furniture that has been bashed or scarred to make it look like English antique.

1967 Boston Sunday Globe 23 Apr. 23 (advt.) Traditional lamps..rendered in..distressed wood finishes.

1967 L. J. Braun Cat who ate Danish Mod. ii. 15 A sofa covered in distressed pigskin, like the hides of retired footballs.

1970 K. Benton Sole Agent xi. 125 The rusty gleam of panels of ‘distressed’ mirror in a pair of double doors.

1970 Cabinet Maker & Retail Furnisher 16 Oct. 129/1 Heavily-distressed oak lowboy..has 12 full-working drawers with antiqued brass handles.

1984 Times 6 Mar. 10 (caption) Antiqued, toughened and distressed leathers give new interest to the uppers.

Draft additions March 2007

a. Of a business or company: experiencing financial difficulty; near bankruptcy.

ΚΠ

1866 Times 9 May 12/1 The leading banks..vehemently shut out even the smallest applications of any of the distressed companies for momentary assistance.

1933 Jrnl. Business Univ. Chicago 6 87 I make no allowance for government aid to distressed companies in the next panic.

1960 Jrnl. Insurance 27 100 Extra-statutory measures for the purpose of pulling distressed companies through the depression.

2006 Scotsman (Nexis) 9 Feb. 33 Volvere—which specialises in forcing turnarounds of small, distressed firms—has been assessing whether the group has a future.

b. Originally U.S.

(a) Of stock, property, or other assets: offered for sale at a low price due to liquidation, insolvency, or foreclosure.

ΚΠ

1899 Chicago Tribune 29 Dec. 6 If the relief of distressed stock gamblers alone were contemplated nobody outside of Wall street would defend the proposition.

1928 Kalends of Waverly Press Mar. 20/2 A man who loses his property because of lack of funds is said to be ‘in distress’ and the property is called ‘distressed property’.

1964 Amer. Econ. Rev. 54 410 The sale of distressed assets..is likely to be relatively disadvantageous to the selling firms.

1990 Furrow Mar. 31/2 I'd go ahead and buy a distressed property just to keep outsiders from latching onto the farm.

2005 Austral. Financial Rev. 4 July 22/1 The best-performing hedge funds have been those investing in distressed securities, emerging markets, and event-driven special situations.

(b) Of merchandise: offered for sale at a discount, typically as a result of being damaged, unwanted, or discontinued.

ΚΠ

1921 N.Y. Times 19 Aug. 18/1 You may be on the watch for telegrams from us offering such distressed merchandise during the next few months.

1964 J. D. MacDonald Quick Red Fox viii. 88 A raging collection of phone solicitors, speculators in distressed merchandise, independent jewelry salesmen.

1989 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 26 Aug. 9 a ‘We've had no complaints whatsoever from customers about the sale.’ Carafiol added that damaged or distressed items were so marked.

2001 Sunday Business (Nexis) 25 Mar. 20 [The company] ekes out a margin on discounted, distressed product that other companies..have not been not able to sell for themselves.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	distressed
释义	distressedadj. /dɪˈstrɛst/poetic./dɪˈstrɛsɪd/ Forms: Also 1500s–1800s distrest. Etymology: < distress v. + -ed suffix¹. a. Afflicted with pain or trouble; sorely troubled; in sore straits. Applied spec. to a person living in impoverished circumstances. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective] poorc1300 afflicta1393 mistada1400 aggrudged1440 afflicted1534 tribulate1575 distressed1586 rid1610 over-grieved1618 ridden1640 tribulated1682 hag-rid1691 crosseda1732 bad off1735 badly off1740 unfortunate1785 the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > [adjective] sorelyc888 gramec893 sorrowfuleOE unblithec897 sorryeOE carefulOE charyOE sickOE yomerOE sorry-moodOE sweerc1000 yomerlyOE sorrilyOE woea1200 balec1220 sorry?c1225 sorec1275 sorec1275 gremefula1300 sada1300 ruthlyc1300 thoughtfulc1300 woebegonea1325 heavyc1330 grievousc1374 woefula1375 sorrowya1382 dereful?a1400 sorousa1400 sytefula1400 teenfula1400 wrotha1400 balefulc1400 tristy?c1400 tristc1420 dolefulc1430 wapped in woec1440 yhevidc1440 dolenta1450 condolentc1460 discomforted1477 tristfula1492 sorrow1496 dram?a1513 dolorous1513 earnful?1527 troublous1535 amort1546 mournfula1558 passioned1560 sadded1566 tristive1578 distressed1586 passionate1586 sorrowed1596 distressful1601 passionful1605 sighful1606 contristed1625 anguishinga1642 sadful1658 saddened1665 tristitious1694 sick as a parrot1705 pangful1727 woesome1778 grieving1807 ruesome1833 yearned1838 doleant1861 mournsome1869 thoughted1869 tragical1887 grief-stricken1905 the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor > reduced to poverty broken-fortuned1362 depauperatea1464 peeled?a1513 extenuate1533 withered1561 penured1570 low-ebbed1595 ruined1596 shredded1596 broken1597 beggared1609 impoverisheda1631 necessitated1646 pinched1672 crazy1700 reduced1715 straitened1716 crazed1732 poverty-struck?1750 poverty-stricken?1786 pauperized1807 poverty-smitten1819 distressed1844 out at elbows1885 poverished1900 wiped1977 1586 G. Pettie & B. Yong tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (rev. ed.) iv. f. 219 Bitter teares, which copiouslie..fell from my distressed eies. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxvii. 180 That poore distressed woman comming vnto Christ. 1601 W. Cornwallis Disc. Seneca sig. D4^v To heare the distresseds petitions. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ii. 51 Giving comfort to our distressed bodies. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 35 This distressed Ship's Crew. 1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. v. 96 We..compassionate the Distressed. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. 311 His distrest countrymen. 1844 C. Ridley in U. Ridley Cecilia (1958) xv. 180 Little round mats..which she works at all the evening as if she were a distressed gentlewoman. 1867 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland v. 96 Invitations to the distressed Flemish artizans to come over and settle in England. 1932 R. Lehmann Invit. Waltz iii iv. 202 It's all right, Aunt Sybil, I swear. Don't look so like a distressed gentlewoman. 1935 E. Bowen House in Paris i. i. 19 A ‘distressed lady’..jotting down what she spent. 1967 Daily Mail 17 Nov. 10/1 A field on the other side of Oxfordshire belonging to the Distressed Gentlefolks Aid Association. 1971 Daily Tel. 16 July 7/4 Distressed gentlefolk, daughters of a Harley Street surgeon whose legacy..could not or would not foresee inflation and a dearth of husbands. b. Of actions or conditions: Pertaining to or showing distress; in straits, sorely straitened. distressed area, a region where there is much unemployment. ΚΠ c1592 F. Bacon Conf. Pleasure (1870) 22 Consider how benigne eare and correspondence she gaue to the distressed requestes of that king. 1625–49 Declar. of Chas. I App., in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) 1 The distressed extremities of Our dearest Uncle the King of Denmark. 1754 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 273 It would be unkind in me to leave her in the distrest way she is in. 1785 J. Trusler Mod. Times I. 168 Their poverty and distressed situation. 1928 Britain's Industr. Future (Liberal Industr. Inq.) i. ii. 20 The continued depression of these industries entails the unemployment, on a large scale, of many..workers..and raises acute problems in a number of distressed areas. 1936 Discovery Nov. 355/2 The development of newer industries is vital to the recovery of our distressed areas, which remain the one black spot in the otherwise remarkable position of Great Britain. 1942 Times Weekly 2 Dec. 15 If their 400 hat factories became derelict they would be a distressed area. c. Upon which a distress is levied. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [adjective] > liable to be levied upon for debt > seizing goods for debt > seized for debt poinded1601 extendeda1625 fenced1637 distressed1896 1896 Westm. Gaz. 24 June 3/1 The Government had never said they could discriminate between land distressed and land not distressed. d. Of furniture: see quot. 1940. Also applied to decorative materials and paintings. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [adjective] > types of artistic treatment or style antica1536 Moresque1611 barbaric1667 massive1723 popular1730 maniéré1743 regency1811 tedesco1814 massy1817 Barbaresque1831 sensualistic1838 broad1849 conventional1851 expressional1856 tight1891 stylized1898 distressed1940 pop1956 transgressive1969 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [adjective] > of materials, metals, etc. > of furniture: falsely aged distressed1940 1940 J. Judson What Every Woman should know about Furnit. 33 If you're a real antique lover you can even buy pieces with ‘distressed’ finish—that is, with simulated marks of age and wear. 1966 Daily Tel. 4 Oct. 13/5 ‘We're using a lot of distressed furniture,’ said the American designer solemnly... The current vogue in America is for furniture that has been bashed or scarred to make it look like English antique. 1967 Boston Sunday Globe 23 Apr. 23 (advt.) Traditional lamps..rendered in..distressed wood finishes. 1967 L. J. Braun Cat who ate Danish Mod. ii. 15 A sofa covered in distressed pigskin, like the hides of retired footballs. 1970 K. Benton Sole Agent xi. 125 The rusty gleam of panels of ‘distressed’ mirror in a pair of double doors. 1970 Cabinet Maker & Retail Furnisher 16 Oct. 129/1 Heavily-distressed oak lowboy..has 12 full-working drawers with antiqued brass handles. 1984 Times 6 Mar. 10 (caption) Antiqued, toughened and distressed leathers give new interest to the uppers. Draft additions March 2007 a. Of a business or company: experiencing financial difficulty; near bankruptcy. ΚΠ 1866 Times 9 May 12/1 The leading banks..vehemently shut out even the smallest applications of any of the distressed companies for momentary assistance. 1933 Jrnl. Business Univ. Chicago 6 87 I make no allowance for government aid to distressed companies in the next panic. 1960 Jrnl. Insurance 27 100 Extra-statutory measures for the purpose of pulling distressed companies through the depression. 2006 Scotsman (Nexis) 9 Feb. 33 Volvere—which specialises in forcing turnarounds of small, distressed firms—has been assessing whether the group has a future. b. Originally U.S. (a) Of stock, property, or other assets: offered for sale at a low price due to liquidation, insolvency, or foreclosure. ΚΠ 1899 Chicago Tribune 29 Dec. 6 If the relief of distressed stock gamblers alone were contemplated nobody outside of Wall street would defend the proposition. 1928 Kalends of Waverly Press Mar. 20/2 A man who loses his property because of lack of funds is said to be ‘in distress’ and the property is called ‘distressed property’. 1964 Amer. Econ. Rev. 54 410 The sale of distressed assets..is likely to be relatively disadvantageous to the selling firms. 1990 Furrow Mar. 31/2 I'd go ahead and buy a distressed property just to keep outsiders from latching onto the farm. 2005 Austral. Financial Rev. 4 July 22/1 The best-performing hedge funds have been those investing in distressed securities, emerging markets, and event-driven special situations. (b) Of merchandise: offered for sale at a discount, typically as a result of being damaged, unwanted, or discontinued. ΚΠ 1921 N.Y. Times 19 Aug. 18/1 You may be on the watch for telegrams from us offering such distressed merchandise during the next few months. 1964 J. D. MacDonald Quick Red Fox viii. 88 A raging collection of phone solicitors, speculators in distressed merchandise, independent jewelry salesmen. 1989 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 26 Aug. 9 a ‘We've had no complaints whatsoever from customers about the sale.’ Carafiol added that damaged or distressed items were so marked. 2001 Sunday Business (Nexis) 25 Mar. 20 [The company] ekes out a margin on discounted, distressed product that other companies..have not been not able to sell for themselves. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < adj.1586
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