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Characterized by, or tending to cause, agitation or anxiety
Tending to cause great distress or anxiety
Requiring, or involving, great mental or physical effort
Adjective
▲
Characterized by, or tending to cause, agitation or anxiety
distressing
disturbing
disquieting
unsettling
worrisome
unnerving
agitating
tense
uneasy
fraught
anxious
hairy
nervous
restless
creepy
upsetting
worrying
troublesome
perturbing
confronting
disruptive
nerve-racking
nail-biting
nerve-wracking
alarming
disconcerting
troubling
difficult
frightening
trying
dismaying
unpleasant
discomforting
discouraging
discommoding
depressing
discomposing
harassing
painful
severe
troublous
bothersome
concerning
irksome
irritating
vexing
harrowing
annoying
nasty
stressful
provoking
disagreeable
burdensome
wearisome
sinister
onerous
startling
perplexing
foreboding
aggravating
embarrassing
tiresome
inconvenient
uncomfortable
intrusive
toilsome
hard
nagging
intimidating
laborious
scary
exciting
ominous
gloomy
daunting
charged
antsy
jittery
threatening
consequential
impeding
insecure
apprehensive
fretful
tricky
troubled
anxious-making
pessimistic
anxiety provoking
gut-wrenching
discomfiting
devastating
jarring
off-putting
traumatic
challenging
displeasing
edgy
hurtful
shocking
disappointing
bothering
spooky
awkward
numbing
distracting
haunting
fearful
terrifying
barro
demoralising
UK
demoralizing
US
taxing
destabilizing
US
destabilising
UK
panicky
tormenting
menacing
strained
anxiety-inducing
cliffhanging
dramatic
volatile
uncertain
prophetic
explosive
knife-edge
white-knuckle
vexatious
exasperating
maddening
niggling
pesky
problematic
pestiferous
pestilent
nettlesome
thorny
pestilential
galling
rankling
harrying
riling
abrasive
peeving
plaguy
frustrating
chafing
carking
nettling
infuriating
rebarbative
pesty
plaguey
sticky
prickly
agonizing
US
agonising
UK
teasing
grave
tedious
unwelcome
infernal
grating
antagonizing
US
confounded
enraging
antagonising
UK
cussed
mean
wearing
wicked
ugly
enough to try the patience of a saint
enough to drive you up the wall
tough
boring
demanding
knotty
gnawing
bedevilling
UK
wretched
unamusing
unpleasing
plaguing
punchable
uncongenial
bedeviling
US
impossible
dreadful
dire
arduous
objectionable
taunting
repugnant
irking
rough
heavy
forbidding
lamentable
deplorable
puzzling
oppressive
uphill
incommodious
afflicting
delicate
provocative
sensitive
festering
antipathetic
messy
ticklish
problematical
unsatisfying
unattractive
touchy
dodgy
damaging
repressive
infestive
complicated
complex
tricksy
catchy
intricate
controversial
spiny
involved
convoluted
baffling
vexed
formidable
afflictive
humiliating
distasteful
unpalatable
acid
more ❯
“The
distressful
news of her aunt's sudden illness caused her great agitation and anxiety.”
Adjective
▲
Tending to cause great distress or anxiety
distressing
tragic
heartbreaking
woeful
grievous
lamentable
unfortunate
heartrending
regrettable
deplorable
tragical
unlucky
sad
upsetting
harrowing
traumatic
agonizing
US
painful
disturbing
dreadful
dismal
agonising
UK
wretched
awful
miserable
bitter
heart-rending
appalling
grim
unpleasant
dire
terrible
excruciating
pitiful
doleful
depressing
saddening
troubling
bad
troublesome
disquieting
poignant
stressful
tormenting
torturous
gut-wrenching
galling
horrific
shocking
discomforting
severe
harsh
irksome
cruel
bleak
horrible
daunting
perturbing
hurtful
poor
difficult
disconcerting
unhappy
sorrowful
melancholy
grave
worrying
sorry
ghastly
unsettling
sombre
UK
gloomy
somber
US
pathetic
disappointing
horrifying
cheerless
uncomfortable
worrisome
rotten
nasty
distasteful
afflicting
frightening
mournful
unpalatable
dispiriting
dreary
hard
pitiable
piteous
hopeless
agitating
afflictive
loathsome
disheartening
macabre
horrendous
horrid
objectionable
affecting
unwelcome
alarming
discouraging
forbidding
vexatious
moving
execrable
tear-jerking
troublous
abominable
atrocious
nightmarish
frightful
lousy
displeasing
unfavourable
UK
unnerving
joyless
savage
melancholic
unfavorable
US
calamitous
brutal
vile
hairy
fraught
disagreeable
mean
hellacious
hostile
foul
gruesome
glum
depressive
drear
nerve-racking
rueful
solemn
grisly
tough
oppressive
dismaying
touching
monstrous
plaintive
heavy
heart-wrenching
vexing
mortifying
ruthless
trying
unpleasing
revolting
desolate
demoralizing
US
funereal
comfortless
dejecting
inauspicious
demoralising
UK
discomposing
morose
lachrymose
abject
chilling
forlorn
dolorous
oppressed
vicious
stark
impoverished
merciless
uncongenial
off-putting
drab
disastrous
crushing
sober
unpropitious
humourless
UK
humorless
US
tearful
dark
austere
pitiless
abhorrent
taxing
intolerable
sour
unsavory
US
unkind
offensive
yukky
yucky
heart-breaking
nerve-wracking
unsavoury
UK
intense
annoying
unrelenting
inopportune
shameful
disconsolate
egregious
dispirited
mirthless
dolesome
parlous
undesirable
desolating
cold
frustrating
foreboding
black
unbearable
teary
sinister
stirring
catastrophic
sedate
nagging
uninviting
distressed
abysmal
shattering
lugubrious
devastating
detestable
unamusing
aggravating
nail-biting
fierce
perplexing
serious
hellish
sullen
concerning
icky
onerous
stiff
rough
burdensome
rugged
relentless
ferocious
repellent
irritating
repugnant
poverty-stricken
unlovely
crippling
repellant
godawful
murderous
inhuman
searing
rigorous
to be pitied
beastly
exacting
very bad
sorrowing
terrifying
squalid
godforsaken
depressed
sordid
dingy
plangent
derisible
pensive
morbid
acute
fearful
inferior
afflicted
despairing
commiserative
haunting
indigent
scungy
sepulchral
scurvy
disenchanting
dangerous
punishing
punitive
overwhelming
blue
tearing
unforgiving
dirty
testing
ruthful
scarring
ignominious
reprehensible
disgraceful
mephitical
irritable
bewildering
revulsive
ominous
troubled
terribly bad
blameworthy
desperate
strong
extreme
wrong
untimely
untoward
adverse
cataclysmic
beseeching
ruined
imploring
commiserable
entreating
inexcusable
regretful
meagre
UK
hurting
meager
US
ill-advised
too bad
god-awful
disadvantageous
injurious
unadvantageous
ruinous
extremely upsetting
crummy
odious
repulsive
hardhanded
wicked
remorseless
great
sore
unsatisfactory
stinking
unendurable
hideous
lurid
disgusting
nauseating
unacceptable
sickening
obnoxious
gross
diabolical
cataclysmal
fatal
harmful
detrimental
inclement
intemperate
provoking
unappealing
uncool
awkward
grotty
grody
ugly
nauseous
hard-hearted
unpromising
inimical
destructive
damning
anguished
deadly
infelicitous
catastrophal
extremely bad
fateful
damaging
ill-fated
confronting
perilous
aching
heartbroken
direful
grieving
agonized
US
precarious
heartsick
sobering
tense
violent
grief-stricken
life-threatening
dejected
downcast
threatening
despondent
downhearted
agonised
UK
smarting
throbbing
wailing
stinging
explosive
in pain
critical
tender
hurt
injured
menacing
crestfallen
bruised
down
woebegone
sensitive
bewailing
wounded
bemoaning
achy
filthy
raw
deploring
inflamed
funeral
burning
irritated
weeping
chafed
pained
heartsore
reddened
red
delicate
elegiac
heinous
abscessed
ulcerated
down in the mouth
down in the dumps
weighty
urgent
suffering
forceful
almighty
sucky
aggressive
vigorous
mighty
blistering
charged
obscene
low
forcible
inconsolable
noisome
powerful
risky
scandalous
tremendous
overpowering
thunderous
noxious
saddened
rancid
crushed
potent
evil
fulsome
dolent
sharp
heavy-hearted
puissant
prickly
broken-hearted
earnest
far-reaching
drastic
disheartened
demoralized
US
discouraged
monumental
hateful
hazardous
profound
peracute
consequential
nostalgic
wistful
lamenting
hefty
disappointed
base
dislikable
strenuous
ill-starred
rubbish
heavyhearted
brokenhearted
unlikable
gray
US
negative
hangdog
out of sorts
smart
droopy
chronic
laughable
dour
contemptible
bereaved
gutsy
grey
UK
trashy
shoddy
aggrieved
inhospitable
exigent
spiritless
powerhouse
dreich
saturnine
destitute
derisory
embarrassing
lame
discommodious
bereft
demoralised
UK
telling
punchy
threnodic
messy
sunless
plutonian
tenebrous
lonesome
tenebrific
elegiacal
pits
low-spirited
cast down
feeble
in sorrow
full of sorrow
in mourning
dirge-like
Cimmerian
uneasy
thorny
sticky
unstable
volatile
tickly
flustering
discomfiting
tricky
quarrelsome
treacherous
bumpy
minacious
pugnacious
dicey
unsafe
volcanic
iffy
intimidating
causing discomfort
ill-fitting
itchy
incommodious
wearisome
scratchy
bellicose
weepy
significant
touch-and-go
knife-edge
tingly
highly charged
twingeing
broken
gammy
damaged
grazed
lacerated
scratched
black-and-blue
gashed
bleeding
impaired
struck
ruptured
discoloured
UK
mangled
discolored
US
stricken
achy breaky
piercing
pounding
tingling
marred
disfigured
beaten
mutilated
cut
disabled
battered
gnawing
mauled
incapacitated
biting
weakened
caustic
scraped
nicked
smartful
laborious
tired
busted up
hit
harmed
scarred
creepy
mightful
dynamic
annihilating
sick
strengthy
strengthful
vomitous
tasteless
sleazy
putrid
disgustful
robust
squicky
festy
rebarbative
God-awful
cloying
surfeiting
bogging
unappetizing
yucko
skanky
scuzzy
loathly
yecchy
hard-hitting
really hard
all-powerful
very hard
gut-churning
sick-making
stomach-churning
cringe-making
stomach-turning
vomit-inducing
more ❯
“The news of her father's sudden illness was
distressful
, causing her great anxiety.”
Adjective
▲
Requiring, or involving, great mental or physical effort
demanding
challenging
difficult
exacting
hard
taxing
arduous
tough
testing
wearing
formidable
gruelling
UK
onerous
painstaking
bruising
burdensome
daunting
debilitating
exhausting
harsh
ponderous
rigorous
stressful
toilsome
tortuous
torturous
uphill
agonising
UK
agonizing
US
excruciating
fatiguing
grueling
US
laborious
tedious
tiresome
tiring
unforgiving
backbreaking
brutal
cumbersome
draining
effortful
forbidding
galling
grievous
grinding
harrowing
heavy
hellacious
hellish
herculean
intolerable
killer
moiling
murderous
operose
oppressive
persnickety
punishing
rough
rugged
severe
stiff
strenuous
stringent
sweaty
tall
toilful
troublesome
trying
unbearable
wearisome
wearying
bothersome
crushing
distressing
exigent
fierce
gargantuan
grim
hairy
intimidating
jarring
knackering
painful
pressing
sapping
solemn
thorny
unpleasant
unyielding
upstream
vigorous
weighty
ambitious
backbreaker
depleting
imperious
killing
shattering
tricky
unsparing
back-breaking
Herculean
Augean
energy-consuming
time-consuming
pick-and-shovel
nerve-racking
insufferable
unremitting
immense
intense
ominous
titanic
labored
US
worksome
laboured
UK
problematic
vicious
prohibitive
merciless
not easy
hard-won
no picnic
ferocious
savage
tough going
easier said than done
mighty
colossal
cruel
difficile
unnerving
gigantic
dicey
awful
really hard
problem
hazardous
slavish
sticky
torturesome
unendurable
tormenting
staggering
drudgy
serious
extreme
marathon
uncomfortable
troubling
very hard
almighty
impossible
scabrous
uphill battle
crippling
high-pressure
discomforting
traumatic
vexatious
worrisome
embittering
upsetting
worrying
disturbing
irksome
nagging
hefty
shocking
high-impact
like getting blood out of a stone
enervating
awkward
relentless
exasperating
vexing
inconvenient
mean
frustrating
unmanageable
enervative
aggravating
unreasonable
hectic
austere
maddening
knotty
strict
pressured
wicked
annoying
fraught
pesky
excessive
pestilent
irritating
immoderate
tense
monumental
weary
bold
bitter
energetic
uncontrollable
impressive
infuriating
inhuman
searing
hardhanded
nasty
disagreeable
niggling
aggressive
agitating
carking
terrible
troublous
pestiferous
plaguy
pestilential
rowdy
incommodious
bad
exorbitant
hostile
steep
unsettling
superincumbent
grandiose
prostrating
ungovernable
daring
Sisyphean
perturbing
drastic
harassing
wild
anxious
extravagant
lofty
rankling
punitive
dreadful
busy
objectionable
intractable
complex
drudging
concerning
infernal
irking
character-building
dour
elaborate
complicated
abrasive
riling
ugly
disorderly
wretched
chafing
nettling
nettlesome
peeving
confounded
recalcitrant
unruly
large-scale
out of control
wayward
nerve-wracking
puzzling
very difficult
out of hand
unmanoeuvrable
rebarbative
cussed
pesty
plaguey
disruptive
incorrigible
a stinker of a
anxiety-ridden
difficult to handle
physical
unfair
searching
strained
critical
stretching
withering
intensive
racking
thorough
thoroughgoing
chastening
prodigious
inexorable
spartan
major
murder
grave
overwhelming
hardworking
unrelenting
overtaxing
overpowering
unrelaxing
work-intensive
rduous
large order
heavy sledding
mammoth
despotic
domineering
powerful
difficult going
rough seas
hard going
forceful
heroic
massive
tight
dogged
overburdening
high
draconian
unjust
uncompromising
slow
a nuisance
grating
provoking
displeasing
an imposition
no piece of cake
boring
repugnant
soul-sucking
unwieldy
gut-wrenching
exerting
high-energy
swingeing
sky-high
inflated
extortionate
discouraging
enraging
lamentable
deplorable
unwelcome
antagonizing
US
harrying
unhandy
clunky
industrious
afflicting
disappointing
emotionally draining
audacious
iniquitous
inordinate
outrageous
grand
intrepid
frantic
chaotic
teasing
festering
antipathetic
bulky
pretentious
visionary
offensive
foul
unsatisfying
unattractive
antagonising
UK
active
eventful
frenzied
frenetic
lively
horrible
magnificent
unrealistic
insupportable
perverse
enough to try the patience of a saint
enough to drive you up the wall
disquieting
vile
improbable
ballsy
brash
idealistic
unfeasible
improper
fiendishly difficult
appalling
harrasive
fanciful
unreal
discomposing
horrendous
turbulent
restless
mystifying
abominable
tremendously difficult
very challenging
unacceptable
egregious
unlikely
horrid
alarming
atrocious
lousy
ghastly
frightful
flustering
animated
madhouse
tireless
full
tumultuous
riotous
furious
bustling
rotten
messy
far-fetched
grotty
difficult to achieve
beastly
problematical
bewildering
intricate
incomprehensible
convoluted
perplexing
baffling
confounding
infestive
damaging
repressive
execrable
beyond bearing
not to be borne
full on
spirited
action-packed
bumpy
raucous
incontrollable
insoluble
detestable
from hell
a bummer of a
impossible to cope with
disobedient
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dysfunctional
defiant
delinquent
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belligerent
willful
self-willed
naughty
badly behaved
uncooperative
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erratic
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bellicose
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argumentative
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ill-disciplined
mischievous
truculent
pugnacious
unrestrainable
stubborn
scrappy
uncompliant
rascally
insubordinate
uncontainable
peevish
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