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单词 distressing
释义
Distressing
vverb.socialbring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship
Synset:distress straiten
Hypernyms:bother discommode disoblige incommode inconvenience put out trouble
Inherited Hypernyms:straitentroubleaffectchange
Sentence Frame:Something ---s somebody
vverb.emotioncause mental pain to
Examples:
  • The news of her child's illness distressed the mother
Derivationally Related Form:distress
Hypernyms:disturb trouble upset
Inherited Hypernyms:distressdisturbaffect
Direct Hyponyms:besiege
Full Troponyms:besiege
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s somebody | Something ---s somebody | The bad news will --- him (apply to: distress)
adj satadj.allcausing distress or worry or anxiety
Synset:distressful disturbing perturbing troubling worrisome worrying
Examples:
  • 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
Antonyms:light
Derivationally Related Form:distressfulness
Inherited Hypernyms:distressing
Similar to:heavy
adj satadj.allbad; unfortunate
Synset:deplorable lamentable pitiful sad sorry
Examples:
  • my finances were in a deplorable state
  • a lamentable decision
  • her clothes were in sad shape
  • a sorry state of affairs
Antonyms:good
Derivationally Related Form:sorrinesssadnesslament
Inherited Hypernyms:deplorable
Similar to:bad
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