| 单词 | distressful |
| 释义 | distressful (once / 8214 pages) adj WORD FAMILY distressful: distressfully, distressfulness+/distress: distressed, distresses, distressful, distressing/distressed: distressedest, distressedly/distressing: distressingly, distressingness USAGE EXAMPLES“It was extremely distressful to my mother, who was frugal her whole life,” said Cynthia Morgan of Chadds Ford, Pa., Ms. Cannon’s daughter. New York Times(Aug 06, 2016) He woke up on the floor with a bleeding nose and exactly the same distressful head symptoms he had been feigning all along. Joseph Heller, Catch-22(1961) “It is a very distressful thing,” he wrote, “to walk into a yard in May and not hear a bee buzz.” Rachel Carson, Silent Spring(1962) adj causing distress or worry or anxiety lived in heroic if something distressful isolation Syn distressing, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying heavy marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness |
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