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Adjective
Upsetting, or causing anxiety, sorrow or pain
Causing worry, distress or anxiety
Characterized by, or tending to cause, agitation or anxiety
Requiring, or involving, great mental or physical effort
Offensive, causing or eliciting a strong negative reaction
Causing embarrassment or unease
In urgent need of immediate attention
Verb
To be irritating or upsetting, typically with repeated or unpleasant acts
Present participle for to cause significant upset to (someone)
Present participle for to give an appearance of age to, especially a new object
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Adjective
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Upsetting, or causing anxiety, sorrow or pain
sad
grievous
painful
heartbreaking
harrowing
dreadful
woeful
upsetting
tragic
lamentable
unfortunate
agonising
UK
agonizing
US
deplorable
disturbing
regrettable
distressful
difficult
pitiful
traumatic
heartrending
shocking
worrying
poignant
disquieting
tormenting
hurtful
saddening
affecting
unlucky
alarming
unsettling
frightening
afflicting
stressful
tragical
afflictive
concerning
fearful
haunting
nagging
confronting
heart-rending
gut-wrenching
nerve-racking
heart-breaking
awful
terrible
dire
wretched
appalling
grim
bad
miserable
dismal
unpleasant
horrible
excruciating
bitter
frightful
troublesome
horrid
horrifying
ghastly
horrendous
harsh
severe
depressing
horrific
nasty
bleak
torturous
forbidding
sorrowful
mournful
grave
doleful
daunting
troubling
pathetic
sorry
poor
rotten
disagreeable
cheerless
abominable
sombre
UK
objectionable
gloomy
perturbing
somber
US
distasteful
atrocious
terrifying
melancholy
gruesome
worrisome
macabre
disheartening
vexatious
irksome
unhappy
galling
foul
discomforting
hideous
lousy
dreary
pitiable
vile
grisly
loathsome
displeasing
cruel
disappointing
unpalatable
nightmarish
revolting
piteous
monstrous
disconcerting
hard
offensive
unnerving
uncomfortable
discouraging
sickening
repugnant
execrable
hellacious
disgusting
repellent
joyless
desolate
unfavourable
UK
unwelcome
trying
repulsive
scary
tough
solemn
unfavorable
US
hopeless
fearsome
dispiriting
comfortless
moving
hairy
drear
unbearable
rueful
morose
dangerous
unspeakable
odious
funereal
chilling
oppressive
dismaying
dark
abhorrent
calamitous
intimidating
intense
agitating
lurid
heavy
injurious
gross
taxing
forlorn
glum
tear-jerking
insufferable
direful
plaintive
yucky
detestable
formidable
nauseating
acute
spine-chilling
harmful
touching
brutal
tearful
undesirable
fierce
searing
hostile
melancholic
sour
dolorous
morbid
abject
bothersome
serious
unendurable
intolerable
disastrous
racking
depressive
obnoxious
troublous
icky
godawful
extreme
mean
discomposing
damaging
petrifying
onerous
hateful
unsavory
US
unsavoury
UK
annoying
unpleasing
uncongenial
startling
lugubrious
sullen
hair-raising
black
crushing
drab
vicious
fraught
redoubtable
unacceptable
demoralizing
US
yukky
vexing
unlovely
sinister
violent
adverse
savage
wicked
demoralising
UK
disconsolate
exacting
awkward
sober
lachrymose
afflicted
abysmal
burdensome
piercing
nerve-wracking
ugly
inferior
eerie
godforsaken
irritating
perilous
terrific
shameful
problematic
grody
teary
critical
dread
sepulchral
repellant
rough
sharp
stirring
off-putting
prickly
mortifying
stinging
very bad
detrimental
inauspicious
depressed
overwhelming
harassing
heart-wrenching
dispirited
nauseous
tortuous
weighty
blue
suffering
destructive
mirthless
cold
hellish
austere
ruinous
anguished
uninviting
baleful
grief-stricken
torturing
crummy
nightmare
unsatisfactory
disadvantageous
wrenching
tricky
hurting
inopportune
menacing
wounding
beastly
precarious
disgustful
humourless
UK
humorless
US
dejecting
punk
sticky
thorny
egregious
scaring
murderous
challenging
heartbroken
vehement
disgraceful
exquisite
shooting
downcast
stabbing
woebegone
impoverished
dejected
ruthful
crestfallen
downhearted
foreboding
sore
ominous
down
emotional
diabolical
parlous
inadequate
inhospitable
threatening
distressed
low
outrageous
grewsome
sick
stinking
wrong
peracute
penetrating
hazardous
paltry
despairing
substandard
arduous
deadly
murky
lame
obscene
tremendous
tenebrous
unsuitable
excessive
loathly
gray
US
rubbish
too bad
unrelenting
grey
UK
devastating
inimical
rugged
stark
oppressed
bloodcurdling
raging
smarting
God-awful
punishing
impressive
ruthless
aching
reprehensible
merciless
catastrophic
dolesome
sick-making
stiff
down in the mouth
desperate
raw
down in the dumps
pitiless
harrying
blameworthy
inhuman
deleterious
pernicious
despondent
ill-advised
unkind
burning
powerful
tearing
cutting
unpromising
shattering
grieving
hardhanded
sordid
biting
gory
heavy-hearted
unsightly
scandalous
plangent
despicable
hefty
heartsick
scurvy
delicate
inconsolable
unpropitious
heartsore
deficient
baneful
mediocre
grotty
noisome
inappropriate
rancid
weak
noxious
subpar
suboptimal
unworthy
dolent
low-spirited
insufficient
spooky
desolating
elegiac
creepy
wack
wanting
crumby
plutonian
dissatisfactory
junky
Cimmerian
spartan
gut-churning
rigorous
niggling
bush
off
ill
abusive
nocuous
nocent
unfriendly
damaged
scarring
from hell
disenchanting
unconducive
spine-tingling
untimely
impactful
bush-league
no good
below par
not up to par
killing
tender
untoward
dirty
gnawing
unpopular
grotesque
profound
regretful
unattractive
sedate
ferocious
sensitive
achy
discommoding
dour
dissatisfying
significant
to be pitied
tight
astonishing
surprising
ignominious
undesired
keen
squalid
stupefying
sorrowing
amazing
backbreaking
invidious
pessimistic
astounding
broken-hearted
anxious-making
unappealing
stunning
bloody
contemptible
consequential
nail-biting
mind-blowing
struggling
life-threatening
strong
frustrating
cheap
testing
dingy
weepy
toilsome
brokenhearted
knotty
poverty-stricken
rough going
bewildering
treacherous
heinous
droopy
heavyhearted
hangdog
saddened
base
unwanted
evil
fulsome
intensive
filthy
indigent
scungy
dreaded
imperfect
faulty
staggering
vulgar
awesome
gnarly
problematical
ticklish
dodgy
chancy
iffy
defective
chill
pressing
exigent
inadmissible
shoddy
tenebrific
weird
overpowering
discommodious
dreich
saturnine
cast down
scabrous
stringent
sunless
lonesome
elegiacal
unsatisfying
useless
ill-timed
shadowy
dubious
questionable
suspect
troubled
imposing
straitened
ill-fated
yucko
unhealthy
inconvenient
aggravating
in pain
blood-curdling
not up to scratch
tormentous
causing fear
from hunger
not satisfying
anguishing
demanding
pain-filled
sentimental
disillusioning
drastic
dampening
thrilling
nostalgic
expressive
tense
cataclysmic
pensive
derisible
brackish
unappetizing
mighty
wearisome
embittering
passionate
beseeching
ruined
imploring
commiserable
entreating
downbeat
emotive
unearthly
crashing
unforgiving
relentless
uncool
unadvantageous
sanguine
dirgeful
great
remorseless
pesky
feel-bad
shrewd
eye-watering
flat
cursed
jinxed
ghostly
commiserative
intemperate
inclement
provoking
devastated
mourning
deep
a pity
fatal
cataclysmal
awe-inspiring
trashy
controversial
anxiety provoking
considerable
irritable
uplifting
scabby
grubby
scummy
sneaking
ratty
cruddy
stern
inexorable
derisory
destitute
eldritch
terribly bad
telling
fiendish
affective
rejected
anticlimactic
damning
almighty
mortal
infernal
aculeate
darkening
risky
heartwarming
major
blistering
phobic
festy
inexcusable
explosive
chronic
undermining
virulent
shady
spookish
suffocating
meagre
UK
blood-stained
mean-looking
messed up
raunchy
grungy
meager
US
excluded
furious
plaguing
stifling
paralyzing
US
paralysing
UK
knifelike
drilling
acheronian
acherontic
dislikable
pain
drag
infelicitous
catastrophal
strenuous
overbearing
god-awful
soul-stirring
mephitical
perplexing
revulsive
unamusing
negative
very unpleasant
lonely
cloudy
heart-warming
venomous
ill-favoured
UK
exceptionable
emotionally moving
looking on the black side
sucky
extremely upsetting
arousing affect
fateful
crippling
sobering
grinding
big
hard-hearted
hard-pressed
tortured
doubtful
jeopardous
apocalyptic
rocky
full of hardship
strained
ill-omened
ill-boding
messy
death-obsessed
threnodic
dirge-like
striking
massive
inexpedient
anxiety-inducing
unwished for
unwished-for
extremely bad
corrosive
consuming
long-faced
disruptive
unseasonable
bereft
not wanted
ill-favored
US
concentrated
bloodthirsty
heartstopping
sanguinary
in sorrow
in mourning
throbbing
heightened
tiresome
incommodious
full of sorrow
prejudicial
injured
bruised
glaring
crude
hurt
shrill
weeping
wailing
deploring
bewailing
bemoaning
funeral
agonized
US
sudden
unhandy
incommoding
wounded
heavy-duty
shabby
unsound
piddling
trifling
dolorific
unmanageable
unwieldy
ropy
duff
unimpressive
junk
lemon
subnormal
negligible
inflamed
mischievous
agonised
UK
minimal
pestiferous
cumbersome
irritated
unpardonable
unforgivable
bloodletting
jerry-built
below average
low-grade
minor-league
low-quality
minor league
tenth-rate
below standard
small potatoes
poor-quality
second rate
no-good
not up to snuff
insignificant
second-rate
chafed
malicious
spiteful
blood-and-guts
blood-and-thunder
pained
reddened
red
snide
catty
sarky
barbed
acerbic
lacking
abscessed
impermissible
ulcerated
snarky
mordacious
acidulous
amiss
schlocky
jolting
flabbergasting
dumbfounding
tactless
insensitive
not good enough
for the birds
no great shakes
leaving a lot to be desired
not much cop
jarring
blindsiding
dumfounding
unbelievable
confounding
mind-boggling
eye-popping
eye-opening
jaw-dropping
hard to believe
more than one can bear
more than flesh and blood can stand
more ❯
“King later apologized for writing the novel, saying he penned it during a
distressing
period in his life and wished it had never been published.”
Adjective
▲
Causing worry, distress or anxiety
upsetting
disturbing
disquieting
perturbing
troublesome
unsettling
discomforting
troubling
discomposing
worrisome
nasty
nagging
troublous
worrying
alarming
dismaying
bothersome
unpleasant
trying
disconcerting
harassing
wearisome
annoying
irksome
difficult
irritating
vexing
agitating
distressful
tiresome
inconvenient
discouraging
burdensome
discommoding
frightening
startling
perplexing
painful
foreboding
depressing
aggravating
provoking
severe
ominous
laborious
hard
gloomy
onerous
sinister
embarrassing
disagreeable
creepy
unnerving
toilsome
threatening
consequential
intrusive
impeding
disruptive
nerve-racking
pessimistic
concerning
awkward
uncertain
prophetic
hairy
discomfiting
harrowing
vexatious
taxing
tricky
traumatic
problematic
uncomfortable
niggling
thorny
fraught
nail-biting
nerve-wracking
anxious-making
devastating
jarring
off-putting
tormenting
anxious
restless
tense
nervous
uneasy
confronting
displeasing
hurtful
shocking
disappointing
numbing
destabilizing
US
destabilising
UK
anxiety provoking
flustering
demanding
gut-wrenching
confusing
distracting
bewildering
baffling
infuriating
exasperating
maddening
oppressive
plaguy
pestilential
pestiferous
arduous
pesky
importunate
pestilent
tough
heavy
intractable
repressive
ungovernable
uphill
rowdy
undisciplined
murder
ugly
messy
infestive
rough
dangerous
damaging
wicked
mean
disorderly
sticky
prickly
harrying
daunting
grave
scary
agonizing
US
agonising
UK
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Characterized by, or tending to cause, agitation or anxiety
disturbing
disquieting
unsettling
unnerving
tense
uneasy
worrisome
anxious
agitating
fraught
distressful
hairy
nervous
restless
creepy
nerve-racking
nail-biting
nerve-wracking
worrying
upsetting
alarming
difficult
stressful
disconcerting
perturbing
scary
exciting
concerning
harrowing
frightening
troubling
irritating
annoying
trying
charged
dismaying
antsy
jittery
intimidating
insecure
apprehensive
fretful
anxious-making
confronting
vexing
bothersome
disruptive
troublesome
troubled
perplexing
spooky
tricky
edgy
bothering
awkward
embarrassing
uncomfortable
discomforting
strained
distracting
barro
demoralising
UK
demoralizing
US
cliffhanging
dramatic
volatile
explosive
off-putting
knife-edge
white-knuckle
daunting
terrifying
harassing
taxing
irksome
panicky
menacing
aggravating
exasperating
maddening
gut-wrenching
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Requiring, or involving, great mental or physical effort
onerous
arduous
hard
demanding
difficult
taxing
strenuous
gruelling
UK
exacting
challenging
laborious
tiring
exhausting
trying
punishing
rigorous
grueling
US
uphill
wearing
fatiguing
formidable
toilsome
stressful
wearisome
crushing
grinding
backbreaking
tedious
troublesome
exigent
tiresome
killing
irksome
ponderous
weighty
Herculean
persnickety
intolerable
painful
serious
galling
cumbersome
vexatious
excessive
merciless
austere
pressing
grave
embittering
awkward
inconvenient
overpowering
overtaxing
back-breaking
time-consuming
tough
testing
harsh
excruciating
tortuous
daunting
painstaking
burdensome
bruising
torturous
debilitating
unforgiving
draining
wearying
rough
agonizing
US
harrowing
hellish
unbearable
severe
brutal
intimidating
upstream
agonising
UK
oppressive
operose
herculean
grievous
sapping
fierce
hairy
unpleasant
gargantuan
jarring
vigorous
bothersome
moiling
killer
heavy
effortful
toilful
rugged
sweaty
tall
forbidding
shattering
depleting
knackering
grim
unyielding
solemn
thorny
distressful
unsparing
ambitious
energy-consuming
backbreaker
insufferable
unremitting
immense
intense
vicious
ominous
titanic
labored
US
worksome
laboured
UK
problematic
dicey
prohibitive
awful
really hard
tough going
problem
hazardous
easier said than done
nerve-racking
slavish
sticky
mighty
torturesome
unendurable
tormenting
not easy
hard-won
staggering
drudgy
colossal
no picnic
extreme
marathon
cruel
uncomfortable
troubling
difficile
unnerving
very hard
ferocious
almighty
impossible
gigantic
savage
scabrous
uphill battle
crippling
high-pressure
discomforting
high-impact
like getting blood out of a stone
murderous
stiff
stringent
hellacious
imperious
tricky
Augean
pick-and-shovel
enervating
relentless
weary
traumatic
worrying
tense
anxious
drudging
fraught
vexing
frustrating
pressured
immoderate
dour
enervative
exasperating
agitating
hectic
anxiety-ridden
unreasonable
exorbitant
disturbing
unfair
bitter
intensive
steep
inhuman
searing
hardhanded
dogged
slow
boring
wretched
exerting
hefty
thoroughgoing
major
emotionally draining
hardworking
work-intensive
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Offensive, causing or eliciting a strong negative reaction
provoking
annoying
aggravating
irritating
vexatious
vexing
exasperating
galling
irksome
maddening
infuriating
disturbing
frustrating
tiresome
irking
tormenting
offensive
goading
insulting
affronting
incendiary
inflammatory
agitational
inflaming
agitative
controversial
in-your-face
bothersome
troublesome
rankling
trying
pesky
abrasive
riling
peeving
chafing
carking
nettling
plaguy
pestiferous
pestilent
nettlesome
pestilential
rebarbative
plaguey
pesty
tedious
wearisome
infernal
troubling
inconvenient
confounded
niggling
awkward
difficult
burdensome
nagging
cussed
displeasing
harassing
unpleasant
disagreeable
unsettling
unwelcome
perturbing
teasing
grating
antagonizing
US
upsetting
enraging
jarring
harrying
antagonising
UK
wearing
enough to try the patience of a saint
enough to drive you up the wall
boring
agitating
discommoding
bedevilling
UK
discomposing
disconcerting
discomforting
worrisome
thorny
unpleasing
agonizing
US
unnerving
unamusing
knotty
taxing
punchable
agonising
UK
uncongenial
incommodious
tricky
bedeviling
US
demanding
objectionable
traumatic
worrying
wretched
repugnant
painful
troublous
deplorable
discouraging
challenging
forbidding
puzzling
lamentable
problematic
afflicting
disappointing
concerning
mean
festering
antipathetic
ugly
wicked
unsatisfying
unattractive
impossible
harrasive
humiliating
distasteful
unpalatable
plaguing
acid
afflictive
inciting
instigative
rousing
arousing
heelish
accursed
disquieting
aggressive
instigating
outrageous
incensing
nauseating
provocative
heady
confrontational
rabble-rousing
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Causing embarrassment or unease
embarrassing
humiliating
discomfiting
disconcerting
upsetting
mortifying
shameful
shaming
awkward
uncomfortable
compromising
flustering
confusing
degrading
delicate
demeaning
sensitive
tricky
agitating
discomposing
discountenancing
disturbing
ignominious
touchy
troublesome
barro
blush-making
cringe-making
cringeworthy
cringey
discreditable
disgraceful
dishonoring
US
dishonouring
UK
toe-curling
bewildering
disagreeable
discommoding
discommodious
distracting
equivocal
exasperating
excruciating
impossible
incommodious
inconvenient
inopportune
perplexing
puzzling
rattling
troubling
trying
uneasy
unpropitious
unseemly
worrisome
unpleasant
sticky
thorny
painful
difficult
vexatious
unsettling
off-putting
nerve-racking
embarrassed
ticklish
dicey
untimely
problematical
problematic
gnarly
hairy
knotty
dodgy
charged
tense
unnerving
tickly
galling
annoying
bitter
torturous
dolorous
bumpy
prickly
irritating
rough
hard
fraught
confronting
afflictive
grievous
distressed
itchy
wearisome
scratchy
causing discomfort
ill-fitting
restless
nervous
anxious
agonizing
US
agonising
UK
more ❯
Adjective
▲
In urgent need of immediate attention
pressing
imperative
important
compelling
critical
crucial
urgent
vital
burning
high-priority
demanding
exigent
importunate
necessary
serious
acute
clamant
constraining
crying
dire
emergent
imperious
instant
key
necessitous
pivotal
essential
inescapable
clamouring
UK
clamoring
US
exacting
immediate
now or never
of the essence
of the utmost importance
required
paramount
significant
indispensable
requisite
needed
of great consequence
pre-eminent
all-important
fundamental
integral
must-have
life-and-death
mandatory
needful
consequential
vitally important
momentous
central
prerequisite
called for
compulsory
obligatory
pertinent
primary
principal
relevant
decisive
cardinal
great
weighty
very important
substantive
heavy
basic
chief
current
all important
topical
prevalent
severe
controversial
active
major
contemporary
overriding
grave
climacteric
desperate
live
dominant
intense
of interest
main
foremost
emergency
deciding
demanded
intrinsic
leading
capital
core
determinative
radical
quintessential
prime
top-priority
meaningful
called-for
much needed
life-or-death
earth-shattering
life and death
bottom-line
worrying
crisis
extraordinary
basal
strategic
mission-critical
business-critical
demanding attention
real
fatal
underlined
constitutive
clamorous
nitty-gritty
world-shaking
meat-and-potatoes
name-of-the-game
coal-and-ice
lively
appropriate
rudimentary
innate
inherent
focal
determining
big
influential
binding
expedient
incumbent on
wanted
name of game
specified
desired
preferred
elementary
proper
recommended
de rigueur
overruling
premier
preeminent
predominant
primal
supreme
top
ruling
climactic
grand
master
popular
widespread
running
drastic
extreme
sore
impelling
outstanding
parlous
terrible
driving
far-reaching
prevailing
earnest
circulating
common
alive
debatable
unsettled
effective
very great
time-critical
of current interest
salient
germane
operative
standout
of note
noteworthy
marked
definite
of concern
emphatic
solid
vigorous
high
more ❯
Verb
▲
To be irritating or upsetting, typically with repeated or unpleasant acts
annoying
harassing
aggravating
antagonizing
US
bugging
exasperating
galling
getting
goading
irking
irritating
narking
nettling
peeving
pestering
riling
ruffling
vexing
frustrating
nagging
upsetting
angering
bothering
displeasing
disturbing
hassling
incensing
infuriating
maddening
making angry
needling
provoking
teasing
agitating
getting to
incommoding
making cross
molesting
perturbing
troubling
worrying
badgering
bedeviling
US
bedevilling
UK
breaking
chafing
enraging
frosting
gnawing
grating
harrying
henpecking
nudging
persecuting
piquing
plaguing
riding
rubbing up the wrong way
spiting
beleaguering
burning up
driving crazy
driving to distraction
graveling
gravelling
rankling
antagonising
UK
bumming out
driving mad
eating
getting at
getting someone's goat
getting under your skin
getting up your nose
giving someone grief
giving someone the hump
hacking off
making your blood boil
teeing off
ticking off
winding up
cheesing off
driving round the bend
driving round the twist
driving up the wall
egging on
firing up
getting in your hair
getting on your wick
getting someone's dander up
getting your back up
hacking you off
heating up
making someone see red
making waves
turning off
working on
asking for it
getting on your nerves
giving someone the pip
putting your back up
hitting where one lives
inflaming
putting out
miffing
driving nuts
getting across
getting on someone's nerves
getting someone's wick
ruffling someone's feathers
getting in someone's hair
rattling someone's cage
trying someone's patience
getting on someone's tits
getting someone's hackles up
getting under someone's skin
making someone's hackles rise
getting someone's back up
tormenting
afflicting
fretting
rasping
hounding
offending
oppressing
griping
besetting
discomposing
giving a hard time
torturing
disquieting
burdening
agonizing
US
itching
paining
rattling
stressing
flustering
harrowing
agonising
UK
dismaying
hurting
perplexing
disconcerting
outraging
unsettling
fazing
baiting
grieving
affronting
trying
discommoding
racking
fussing
ailing
concerning
depressing
haunting
exacerbating
roiling
straining
inconveniencing
mortifying
dogging
wounding
humping
discomfiting
discomforting
saddening
distracting
niggling
picking on
gnawing at
flurrying
disgusting
getting on one's nerves
taunting
unhinging
anguishing
cursing
alarming
besieging
unnerving
chivvying
aggrieving
heckling
devilling
deviling
mithering
disgruntling
weighing down
bullying
rubbing the wrong way
hectoring
frazzling
distempering
appalling
confusing
rankling with
getting your goat
causing suffering to
stinging
discombobulating
insulting
taxing
confounding
excruciating
disobliging
chagrining
exercising
chivying
pursuing
shaking
disheartening
weirding out
lying heavy on
freaking out
ragging
grating on
eating at
making somebody's hackles rise
discountenancing
intimidating
stewing
derailing
throwing
hagriding
embarrassing
dissatisfying
ribbing
ridiculing
chaffing
discouraging
making anxious
trying your patience
cutting to the quick
shocking
blighting
fearing
frightening
alaruming
sweating
hazing
undoing
affecting
mocking
importuning
crucifying
dispiriting
making uneasy
dejecting
burning
raising your hackles
keeping on at
weighing heavily on
going on at
keeping after
stirring up
throwing off balance
ruffling one's feathers
eating away at
daunting
assailing
horrifying
dissing
traumatizing
US
sickening
demoralizing
US
smiting
crushing
disrupting
panicking
scaring
puzzling
bewildering
obsessing
iring
madding
enflaming
injuring
casting down
abrading
putting down
getting up someone's nose
nagging at
hurting somebody's feelings
giving a bad time
traumatising
UK
sending into a rage
steaming up
getting your dander up
preying on your mind
demoralising
UK
intruding upon
razzing
nonplussing
interrupting
victimizing
US
gibing
pricking
wearying
nauseating
embittering
attacking
beating
browbeating
dunning
hanging over
tantalizing
US
pothering
causing anxiety to
getting your hackles up
making miserable
driving bananas
jarring on
putting someone's nose out of joint
imposing on
tantalising
UK
dumping on
bending someone's ear
hanging up
putting to trouble
driving you up the wall
wearing on
victimising
UK
causing trouble to
putting off
joshing
bantering
roasting
slighting
brooding
souring
scandalizing
US
dampening
guying
rallying
testing
overwhelming
devastating
flummoxing
jarring
desolating
repelling
confronting
wringing
slapping
terrorizing
US
fuddling
dumbfounding
stumping
criticizing
US
preoccupying
getting across someone
exciting
pressing
flooring
martyring
debilitating
preying on
spooking
feeling uneasy
making uncomfortable
rattling one's cage
harping on at
bleeding
getting down
setting one's teeth on edge
making unhappy
criticising
UK
scandalising
UK
putting in a spot
weighing on
causing discomfort to
shaking up
throwing off
poking fun at
making sport of
losing sleep
breathing down someone's neck
wearing
mixing up
terrorising
UK
trying the patience of
rubbing you up the wrong way
putting on the spot
getting a rise out of
working up
taking the piss out of
making fun of
causing anguish to
making wretched
joking
baffling
jiving
deriding
sapping
facing
mystifying
bemusing
jeering
scolding
funning
stupefying
kidding
disrespecting
domineering
disaffecting
abashing
revolting
harming
tiring
festering
repulsing
bamboozling
stretching
leading on
fooling around
carping
draining
moving
twitting
berating
mistreating
chilling
chillin
foxing
disorienting
buffaloing
addling
muddling
mazing
reviling
imposing
despairing
pressurizing
US
quizzing
shucking
chiding
stirring
dazing
befogging
rousing
crazing
reproaching
disappointing
befuddling
dashing
gripping
caviling
US
cavilling
UK
sledging
suffering
jeering at
scoffing at
bringing down
posing
muddying
spoofing
picking at
pressing down on
pushing
upbraiding
boring
stunning
concerning oneself
stressing out
prodding
taking
bumming
shattering
indisposing
abasing
dampening spirits
fuming
cowing
wronging
slamming
umbraging
punishing
biting
visiting
making it hot for someone
having on
giving the business
making a monkey of
taking aback
pecking at
tearing
making it tough
messing with
torturing yourself
flipping out
beating down
getting in a sweat
jangling
going to your head
sticking in one's craw
weighing
pulling one's leg
hacking
taking the mickey
balling up
getting in a fluster
driving insane
making someone scratch their head
inflicting anguish on
ragging on
making things hot for someone
tormenting yourself
intoxicating
getting in a tizz
getting someone
giving offence to
possessing
making someone fed up
getting worked up
hunting
blowing your mind
getting in a tizzy
getting in a panic
getting overwrought
getting in a flap
losing sleep over
jibing at
getting in a lather
giving trouble
causing concern to
making discontented
acerbating
causing agony to
niggling at
getting on the wrong side of
knocking for six
wearing out
getting in a state
making punchy
doing in
swipeing at
pressurising
UK
causing anxiety
getting steamed up
buffeting
dulling
buffetting
inebriating
deranging
unmanning
startling
damaging
exhausting
browning off
occupying
bedogging
causing disquiet to
causing annoyance to
causing resentment to
wigging
getting on someone
shaming
running up the wrong way
cutting
interfering
meddling
riling up
finding fault
empurpling
giving someone hell
kidding around
pushing someon's buttons
messing
humiliating
getting on the nerves of
getting in the hair of
steaming
psyching out
resenting
eating up
insisting on
inciting
pushing one's buttons
tangling
deeply upsetting
inflicting trauma
searing
irritating greatly
barracking
booing
grilling
consternating
unquieting
making fretful
making restless
chevying
setting on edge
putting on edge
hitting a sour note
getting on
jarring upon
relucting
grating upon
wearing upon
occupying thoughts
setting on
taking a rise out of
starting
setting off
working into lather
belabouring
UK
making it tough for
cutting up
strapping
doing a number on
arousing anxiety in
pushing buttons
nit-picking
making an enemy of somebody
taking over
taking control of
shouting down
macerating
foraying
noodging
bullyragging
despoiling
jerking around
grizzling
foiling
thwarting
putting to some trouble
scarring
subjugating
lowering
suppressing
dwelling on
biting one's nails
getting stressed
having qualms
tiring out
making severe demands on
making demands on
putting a strain on
curdling
reminding
insisting
throwing a curve
knocking props out
unstringing
sneering
hurting deeply
causing pain to
lying heavily on
kicking up a stink
kicking up a fuss
scratching around
yapping at
searching high heaven
driving you crazy
making your gorge rise
sweating out
rousting
putting
bringing pressure to bear on
leaning on
putting pressure on
hissing
demeaning
disenchanting
jesting
envenoming
terrifying
accosting
petting
tiffing
huffing
discontenting
making livid
driving you out of your mind
driving you off your head
making you see red
driving you round the twist
driving out of mind
driving you to distraction
making somebody's blood boil
driving you round the bend
gibing at
sneering at
sticking the knife into
singling out
exiling
expelling
dragooning
getting the knife into
keying up
incapacitating
rocking the boat
laying up
cramping
turning on
turning
flipping
making a scene
becoming bored
grating at
having had enough
losing patience
sticking it to
giving it to
dishing it out
dishing out
overcharging
devitalizing
crabbing
lousing up
begrudging
getting even
upsetting the applecart
grudging
slandering
dispraising
offending morals of
abusing
abominating
giving the cold shoulder
filling with loathing
giving a zinger
pushing the buttons of
thumbing nose at
causing suffering
causing anguish
causing sorrow
lambasting
mourning
causing offense
grinding
louting
twittering
disdaining
jabbing
scouting
scorning
flouting
digging
mispleasing
playing dirty
zinging
alienating
poisoning
causing to panic
quipping
defeating
humbling
overcoming
shouting at
butting in
shouting catcalls at
making game of
making awkward
making ashamed
making self-conscious
owning
showing up
wisecracking
causing inconvenience to
imposing upon
creating difficulties for
disengaging
detaching
sending over the edge
separating
disconnecting
uncoupling
unhitching
unfastening
japing
playing cat and mouse
putting through wringer
rubbing salt in wound
knocking the wind out of
harshing one's mellow
putting out of countenance
throwing into a tizzy
catching one short
putting in a hole
letting down
gagging
entangling
hampering
inflicting
horning in on
intruding on
butting in on
interfering with
barging in on
jollying
aggressing
breaking one's heart
belaboring
US
bombarding
bearing down on
casting a pall over
damping down
yucking
yukking
jumping on one's case
giving the needle
falling on
putting the squeeze on
falling upon
starting in on
moping
hurting the feelings of
tearing to pieces
making blue
putting into a funk
chastening
breaking the heart of
dragging down
putting a damper on
disparaging
catching
pretending
disillusioning
befalling
wreaking
wrecking
sorrowing
upsetting oneself
sighing
pining
playing
fooling about
feeling unhappy
making resentful
jaundicing
empoisoning
making bitter
overriding
tyrannizing
US
casting a gloom upon
dragging
damping
running down
making gloomy
enervating
darkening
making sad
distressing oneself
knocking sideways
pouring cold water on
throwing cold water on
bringing tears to your eyes
carrying a heavy load
knocking the stuffing out of
breaking someone's heart
harshing someone's mellow
giving someone the blues
reducing to tears
making desolate
making despondent
getting into a dither
sweating it out
bearing down
dashing hopes
keeping under
tensing
overtaxing
pressuring
overstretching
worsening
enslaving
tyrannizing over
dominating
tyrannising
UK
putting into a flap
putting someone off their stroke
making nervous
causing someone to lose their composure
throwing into a tizz
throwing into tizzy
avenging
descending on
descending upon
bringing down on
forcing upon
making ill
disadvantaging
seizing
depredating
extorting
blackmailing
devouring
raiding
taking advantage of
plundering
killing
feeding on
fleecing
living off
loading
living on
exploiting
consuming
making rancorous
acidulating
venoming
estranging
bittering
having an adverse effect on
striking down
going against the grain
making unwell
causing illness to
causing problems
disagreeing
discommodating
crossing
hindering
impeding
putting on trial
crunching
tensing up
overdoing
pushing to the limit
overextending
making tense
causing to feel mental strain
causing to feel emotional strain
putting in traction
carping at
giving someone bother
causing someone difficulty
making someone go out of his way
satirizing
US
wildering
striking
fogging
flabbergasting
dithering
obfuscating
surprising
snowing
enduring
abiding
exerting
stomaching
dreading
standing
going
tolerating
brooking
chiacking
making your head spin
stymieing
bringing up short
disorientating
causing to be at a stand
staggering
messing with one's head
setting someone thinking
staying the course
sticking it out
smoking
rotting
snapping
sounding
getting in a tiz-woz
going through the mill
flouting at
poking mullock at
messing around
goofing on
satirising
UK
poking borak at
laughing at
pulling someone's leg
putting on
slinging off at
sending up
flirting with
making jokes about
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cause significant upset to (someone)
upsetting
worrying
bothering
disturbing
paining
grieving
afflicting
agitating
disquieting
perturbing
saddening
dismaying
ruffling
wounding
displeasing
harassing
irking
oppressing
plaguing
racking
stressing
torturing
unnerving
agonising
UK
agonizing
US
ailing
alarming
alaruming
anguishing
annoying
bugging
concerning
cursing
depressing
derailing
discombobulating
discomforting
discomposing
disconcerting
discountenancing
distempering
distracting
flurrying
frazzling
fussing
harrying
hounding
hurting
irritating
miffing
offending
peeving
perplexing
pestering
rattling
trying
unhinging
unsettling
angering
confounding
fazing
flustering
fretting
hagriding
hassling
injuring
nagging
needling
straining
throwing
aggrieving
breaking
desolating
dogging
exercising
harrowing
indisposing
martyring
nit-picking
pricking
pushing
shaking
strapping
tantalising
UK
tantalizing
US
tormenting
troubling
undoing
vexing
causing anguish to
causing suffering to
freaking out
getting at
getting to
picking on
cutting up
eating at
making wretched
pushing buttons
ticking off
weirding out
arousing anxiety in
burning up
weighing on
doing a number on
giving a hard time
making it tough for
making miserable
throwing off balance
more ❯
“He had done everything possible to
distress
her, including his confession of love for her.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to give an appearance of age to, especially a new object
ageing
UK
aging
US
seasoning
conditioning
damaging
mellowing
spoiling
weathering
battering
chipping
denting
scratching
simulating age in
“I hereby grant you permission to
distress
that table, to paint it pink and stencil flowers around the edge if that pleases you.”
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