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What is another word for
distressing
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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
Causing a feeling of surprise, fear or dismay
Causing embarrassment or unease
In urgent need of immediate attention
Upset and angry
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
▲
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
wretched
miserable
awful
bad
dismal
terrible
dire
excruciating
unpleasant
pathetic
mournful
sorry
bitter
grim
sorrowful
severe
appalling
depressing
pitiable
piteous
troublesome
harsh
poor
gloomy
rotten
unhappy
doleful
bleak
calamitous
melancholy
disappointing
lousy
cheerless
nasty
moving
sombre
UK
grave
disagreeable
offensive
somber
US
torturous
horrible
disheartening
displeasing
cruel
galling
disastrous
unfavourable
UK
frightful
hard
hopeless
unfavorable
US
tough
unwelcome
joyless
desolate
solemn
rueful
plaintive
discouraging
crushing
dreary
forlorn
vexatious
dispiriting
touching
intense
atrocious
distasteful
uncomfortable
horrifying
heavy
comfortless
undesirable
harmful
fierce
oppressive
unpalatable
objectionable
intolerable
vile
trying
execrable
irksome
mean
tear-jerking
morose
funereal
dark
injurious
abject
horrid
unbearable
taxing
daunting
acute
troubling
forbidding
dangerous
extreme
shameful
tearful
glum
horrendous
exacting
sour
drear
dolorous
unacceptable
damaging
ghastly
serious
black
abominable
onerous
repugnant
worrisome
unpleasing
uncongenial
lugubrious
annoying
horrific
destructive
ruinous
revolting
paltry
afflicted
anguished
foul
challenging
stirring
melancholic
bothersome
unsavory
US
yucky
yukky
unlovely
icky
inferior
disconcerting
repellent
depressive
unendurable
wicked
brutal
unsavoury
UK
detestable
insufferable
adverse
sullen
racking
crummy
critical
catastrophic
disconsolate
weighty
discomforting
burdensome
sharp
disgraceful
repulsive
chilling
obnoxious
punishing
inadequate
stinging
sore
hostile
hairy
arduous
grief-stricken
irritating
unsatisfactory
perturbing
searing
odious
devastating
terrifying
sickening
egregious
scurvy
rough
detrimental
exigent
savage
depressed
base
violent
low
loathsome
awkward
distressed
drab
dejected
blue
monstrous
lachrymose
formidable
disgusting
demanding
morbid
suffering
unnerving
deadly
abysmal
contemptible
lame
disadvantageous
wounding
abhorrent
godawful
intimidating
gruesome
inopportune
merciless
toilsome
cutting
perilous
sepulchral
torturing
pressing
cataclysmic
demoralizing
US
vexing
teary
ominous
unkind
very bad
rigorous
piercing
pernicious
raging
wrenching
mortifying
reprehensible
tortuous
heartbroken
hellish
blameworthy
demoralising
UK
hellacious
despondent
downcast
vicious
shabby
grieving
woebegone
macabre
nightmarish
gross
despicable
crestfallen
downhearted
diabolical
problematic
down
overwhelming
hateful
exquisite
nauseating
uninviting
wrong
mediocre
parlous
despairing
substandard
testing
shattering
too bad
wearisome
ugly
peracute
stiff
unsuitable
thorny
strenuous
punk
hazardous
rugged
off-putting
inimical
worthless
austere
agitating
emotional
shooting
grisly
tiresome
precarious
killing
desperate
stabbing
dejecting
to be pitied
hurting
meagre
UK
backbreaking
meager
US
ill-advised
dismaying
grinding
tender
down in the mouth
cumbersome
down in the dumps
aching
deleterious
cheap
ignominious
outrageous
scary
tricky
discomposing
ruthless
heart-wrenching
unpromising
godforsaken
penetrating
biting
sober
ferocious
heavy-hearted
hideous
dispirited
impoverished
ruthful
inauspicious
mirthless
plangent
fearsome
lurid
pitiless
delicate
heartsick
laborious
grody
cold
inconsolable
unpropitious
exhausting
heartsore
sticky
deficient
baneful
useless
murky
vehement
gruelling
UK
crippling
inappropriate
murderous
weak
faulty
subpar
suboptimal
unworthy
dolent
wearing
low-spirited
shoddy
rubbish
sinister
tenebrous
unrelenting
insufficient
direful
foreboding
uphill
unforgiving
grueling
US
tearing
tiring
elegiac
fatiguing
gray
US
grey
UK
wack
wanting
crumby
plutonian
God-awful
dissatisfactory
beastly
junky
ill-fated
Cimmerian
back-breaking
spartan
bush
off
ill
abusive
nocuous
nocent
ponderous
Herculean
disenchanting
tedious
untoward
excessive
malicious
spiteful
unfriendly
barbed
damaged
scarring
unconducive
untimely
compassionate
arousing
commiserative
bush-league
no good
below par
not up to par
baleful
fatal
unpopular
fraught
troublous
powerful
impressive
drastic
eerie
undesired
dirty
nerve-wracking
acerbic
profound
regretful
commiserable
impactful
beggarly
mordacious
inexcusable
dolesome
derisible
smarting
dissatisfying
sensitive
agonized
US
tight
burning
squalid
raw
sorrowing
insignificant
heinous
achy
pessimistic
humourless
UK
humorless
US
broken-hearted
stinking
unappealing
sordid
agonised
UK
consequential
embittering
prickly
fateful
unspeakable
inhuman
chronic
mortal
invidious
life-threatening
almighty
frustrating
strong
scandalous
significant
dingy
weepy
cruddy
unwanted
iniquitous
brokenhearted
knotty
relentless
hardhanded
god-awful
poverty-stricken
droopy
heavyhearted
hangdog
saddened
tortured
intensive
repellant
indigent
scungy
terrific
dishonourable
UK
dishonorable
US
unsought
imperfect
mighty
problematical
ticklish
dodgy
chancy
iffy
defective
opprobrious
chill
hefty
inconvenient
persnickety
painstaking
inadmissible
ridiculous
stringent
sucky
tenebrific
discommodious
cast down
dreich
saturnine
bruising
debilitating
inexorable
unsatisfying
sunless
lonesome
elegiacal
ill-timed
shadowy
in pain
dubious
questionable
suspect
imperious
troubled
threatening
derisory
operose
moiling
sweaty
killer
wearying
toilful
tall
draining
effortful
herculean
inhospitable
straitened
scabrous
overpowering
knackering
sapping
upstream
vigorous
jarring
gargantuan
unyielding
struggling
unhealthy
aggravating
ambitious
depleting
backbreaker
unsparing
time-consuming
energy-consuming
headache
not up to scratch
tormentous
from hunger
not satisfying
anguishing
second-rate
merciful
anxiety-inducing
feel-bad
unattractive
pain-filled
melting
dampening
desolating
disillusioning
beseeching
ruined
imploring
entreating
supplicating
stark
oppressed
tense
unadvantageous
emotive
petty
puny
brackish
unappetizing
downbeat
thrilling
cataclysmal
glaring
pensive
telling
soul-stirring
uplifting
heart-warming
prejudicial
crashing
responsible
damning
dirgeful
keen
mind-blowing
cursed
jinxed
rancid
pesky
gnarly
sentimental
nostalgic
passionate
expressive
a pity
unearthly
flat
nefarious
flagrant
anxiety provoking
trashy
filthy
unforgivable
infelicitous
catastrophal
soaring
devastated
mourning
inept
destitute
irritable
bewildering
crying
crucial
inglorious
preposterous
senseless
anticlimactic
mischievous
flagitious
heartwarming
affective
rejected
scabby
grubby
scummy
sneaking
ratty
yucko
controversial
urgent
stern
ghostly
gory
grotesque
undermining
virulent
unpardonable
unconscionable
indefensible
sinful
foolish
darkening
shrewd
acheronian
acherontic
lethal
excluded
uninvited
overtaxing
plodding
villainous
considerable
eye-watering
racked
feeble
ignoble
immoral
discreditable
disreputable
insupportable
dislikable
pain
drag
emotionally moving
negative
venomous
dour
great
remorseless
mephitical
perplexing
revulsive
unamusing
grewsome
nightmare
dread
hair-raising
spine-chilling
redoubtable
irretrievable
deathly
hapless
inexpedient
looking on the black side
harrying
plaguing
ill-favoured
UK
exceptionable
lonely
cloudy
unjustifiable
absurd
ludicrous
laughable
major
intemperate
inclement
provoking
weird
shady
spooky
spookish
portentous
bodeful
threnodic
dirge-like
tyrannical
disruptive
unseasonable
hard-pressed
doubtful
treacherous
jeopardous
apocalyptic
rocky
full of hardship
strained
ill-omened
ill-boding
messy
downer
bummer
snide
catty
sarky
corrosive
irritated
arousing affect
criminal
silly
third-rate
foolish-looking
extremely upsetting
sick
unwished for
unwished-for
dictatorial
repressive
oppressing
scowling
paralyzing
US
paralysing
UK
knifelike
drilling
bereft
long-faced
domineering
autocratic
reddened
chafed
inflamed
beyond contempt
scathing
slighting
not wanted
ill-favored
US
high-impact
drudgy
tough going
titanic
worksome
uphill battle
hard-won
immense
no picnic
marathon
impossible
prohibitive
unremitting
staggering
colossal
like getting blood out of a stone
dicey
easier said than done
slavish
torturesome
labored
US
laboured
UK
high-pressure
really hard
difficile
problem
not easy
very hard
gigantic
snarky
acidulous
incommodious
death-obsessed
despotic
unjust
undemocratic
draconian
sobering
menacing
big
crude
throbbing
hurt
in sorrow
in mourning
insulting
tyrannous
full of sorrow
unsound
piddling
trifling
unhandy
incommoding
discommoding
small
red
bruised
authoritarian
iron-fisted
ropy
duff
tactless
unimpressive
junk
lemon
subnormal
insensitive
negligible
weeping
wailing
deploring
bewailing
bemoaning
funeral
ill-starred
hard-hearted
unmanageable
unwieldy
vitriolic
overbearing
anti-democratic
punitive
unfair
coercive
injured
wounded
minimal
trivial
dolorific
pestiferous
high-handed
peremptory
overweening
jerry-built
below average
low-grade
minor-league
low-quality
minor league
tenth-rate
below standard
small potatoes
poor-quality
second rate
not up to snuff
caustic
abscessed
pained
ulcerated
ironhanded
heavy-handed
confining
rough going
superincumbent
acid
maleficent
trenchant
pointed
lacking
deep
impermissible
amiss
schlocky
thin
blistering
explosive
Augean
pick-and-shovel
furious
not good enough
for the birds
no great shakes
leaving a lot to be desired
not much cop
sedate
grotty
uncool
nauseous
consuming
concentrated
heightened
shrill
sudden
heavy-duty
nail-biting
finely tuned
extremely bad
more than one can bear
more than flesh and blood can stand
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“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
trying
harassing
irksome
worrying
bothersome
annoying
irritating
difficult
aggravating
vexing
vexatious
unpleasant
tiresome
wearisome
alarming
inconvenient
burdensome
provoking
dismaying
exasperating
agitating
maddening
niggling
taxing
awkward
harrowing
painful
disagreeable
disconcerting
nerve-racking
discommoding
distressful
tormenting
frightening
discouraging
galling
thorny
tricky
hairy
concerning
pesky
harrying
creepy
startling
severe
plaguy
pestiferous
frustrating
pestilential
pestilent
ominous
hard
laborious
gloomy
onerous
sinister
foreboding
depressing
perplexing
problematic
rankling
unnerving
riling
abrasive
daunting
peeving
infuriating
chafing
carking
nettling
toilsome
nettlesome
threatening
intrusive
impeding
disruptive
consequential
traumatic
pesty
rebarbative
plaguey
pessimistic
displeasing
scary
tedious
infernal
anxious-making
nerve-wracking
agonizing
US
confounded
agonising
UK
cussed
fraught
uncertain
embarrassing
prophetic
nail-biting
grave
prickly
sticky
demanding
irking
unwelcome
teasing
grating
antagonizing
US
tense
enraging
jarring
antagonising
UK
anxious
wearing
restless
nervous
uneasy
enough to try the patience of a saint
enough to drive you up the wall
disappointing
knotty
incommodious
gnawing
mean
boring
ugly
wicked
gut-wrenching
bedevilling
UK
unamusing
unpleasing
punchable
uncongenial
bedeviling
US
confronting
hurtful
shocking
stressful
panicky
menacing
terrifying
intimidating
objectionable
wretched
repugnant
dreadful
arduous
oppressive
discomfiting
challenging
forbidding
lamentable
deplorable
puzzling
dire
devastating
apprehensive
afflicting
importunate
festering
antipathetic
intractable
ungovernable
undisciplined
murder
rough
damaging
tough
heavy
repressive
uphill
rowdy
messy
infestive
dangerous
disorderly
unsatisfying
unattractive
impossible
off-putting
offensive
provocative
instigative
inflaming
charged
inflammatory
exciting
instigating
inciting
piquing
incendiary
affronting
goading
insulting
agitational
stimulating
agitative
edgy
controversial
in-your-face
obstructive
humiliating
distasteful
unpalatable
plaguing
acid
afflictive
ticklish
delicate
dodgy
complex
tricksy
problematical
complicated
involved
spiny
intricate
sensitive
touchy
catchy
convoluted
vexed
formidable
baffling
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
perturbing
disconcerting
exciting
stressful
concerning
troubling
charged
dismaying
difficult
scary
antsy
uncomfortable
apprehensive
jittery
uptight
confronting
disruptive
troublesome
insecure
strained
bothering
fretful
trying
knife-edge
awkward
embarrassing
harrowing
irritating
annoying
edgy
tricky
cliffhanging
dramatic
volatile
vexing
bothersome
barro
intimidating
off-putting
demoralizing
US
frightening
distracting
discomforting
explosive
anxious-making
white-knuckle
troubled
perplexing
emotionally charged
demoralising
UK
nervy
dithery
stressed
overwrought
worried
twitchy
agitated
panicky
taut
rigid
unrelaxed
excited
spooky
unquiet
concerned
queazy
queasy
on edge
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Causing a feeling of surprise, fear or dismay
shocking
appalling
dreadful
horrible
ghastly
horrifying
disgusting
hideous
outrageous
scandalous
awful
disgraceful
monstrous
offensive
revolting
terrible
abominable
frightful
odious
repulsive
sickening
atrocious
foul
horrific
nauseating
loathsome
unspeakable
abhorrent
disquieting
repellent
repugnant
horrendous
obscene
vile
fearsome
forbidding
frightening
grisly
scary
stupefying
disturbing
horrid
perturbing
terrifying
upsetting
agitating
alarming
amazing
astonishing
bad
bewildering
dire
direful
distasteful
evil
fearful
formidable
fulsome
grewsome
gross
gruesome
intimidating
lurid
macabre
nasty
nauseous
nightmare
nightmarish
noisome
noxious
obnoxious
overwhelming
rancid
repellant
staggering
startling
stunning
terrific
ugly
unsettling
abysmal
deplorable
godawful
hellacious
redoubtable
surprising
unnerving
detestable
glaring
heinous
wicked
hair-raising
from hell
spine-chilling
grim
harrowing
daunting
dread
petrifying
unpleasant
worrying
dismaying
chilling
grody
tremendous
disgustful
grievous
hateful
objectionable
beastly
loathly
menacing
disagreeable
scaring
baleful
astounding
sick-making
dangerous
shameful
morbid
egregious
execrable
sinister
insufferable
sick
serious
eerie
disconcerting
creepy
gut-churning
bloodcurdling
diabolical
traumatic
unsightly
violent
severe
yucky
savage
disheartening
vicious
bloody
tragic
gory
excessive
intolerable
lamentable
grotesque
very bad
despicable
extreme
calamitous
displeasing
mean
unpalatable
shuddersome
lousy
depressing
wretched
spooky
awesome
icky
gnarly
hairy
spine-tingling
imposing
poor
stinking
rubbish
vulgar
grotty
causing fear
God-awful
godforsaken
harsh
concerning
bloodthirsty
unpardonable
abject
unforgivable
brutal
terribly bad
inexcusable
heavy
sanguine
unearthly
strange
ghoulish
sublime
desperate
unsavoury
UK
weird
dazing
disorienting
grave
dreaded
dismal
awe-inspiring
blood-and-guts
blood-and-thunder
sanguinary
rotten
excruciating
unsavory
US
off-putting
blood-stained
disastrous
inconvenient
punk
unwelcome
unfortunate
murderous
troubling
eldritch
mean-looking
impressive
discouraging
fierce
blood-curdling
threatening
solemn
frozen
foreboding
irksome
demoralizing
US
bothersome
discomforting
afraid
striking
massive
powerful
discommoding
troublesome
like death warmed up
infamous
vexing
discomposing
villainous
festy
nefarious
raunchy
yucko
very unpleasant
grungy
iniquitous
cruel
unreasonable
onerous
steep
ruthless
unbearable
numbing
unendurable
immoderate
exorbitant
insupportable
unfair
inhuman
flagrant
barbaric
gut-wrenching
demoralising
UK
infernal
exasperating
impossible
unwarranted
fiendish
OTT
extravagant
maddening
preposterous
O.T.T.
extortionate
uncivilised
UK
depraving
flagitious
debasing
contemptible
uncivilized
US
ungodly
debauching
corrupt
contumelious
notorious
scurrilous
too great
malevolent
degenerate
shaming
wanton
criminal
sinful
disgracing
opprobrious
ignoble
over the top
jolting
flabbergasting
dumbfounding
jarring
blindsiding
dumfounding
unbelievable
confounding
jaw-dropping
eye-opening
mind-boggling
mind-blowing
eye-popping
hard to believe
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
unsettling
off-putting
unpleasant
sticky
thorny
painful
unnerving
difficult
vexatious
nerve-racking
alarming
embarrassed
ticklish
bothersome
dicey
untimely
problematical
problematic
gnarly
hairy
knotty
dodgy
perturbing
worrying
concerning
baffling
dismaying
anxious-making
charged
tense
tickly
galling
annoying
bitter
torturous
dolorous
bumpy
prickly
irritating
rough
hard
fraught
confronting
afflictive
grievous
distressed
itchy
wearisome
scratchy
causing discomfort
ill-fitting
controversial
nasty
tough
catchy
precarious
tricksy
spiny
complicated
contentious
emotive
volatile
uncertain
unpredictable
agonizing
US
restless
nervous
agonising
UK
anxious
touch-and-go
risky
intricate
discomforting
provocative
convoluted
heavy
laborious
operose
rugged
formidable
strenuous
complex
heated
chancy
involved
divisive
critical
scandalous
kid-glove
hair-trigger
nettlesome
inflamed
irritated
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
claiming
clamouring
UK
clamoring
US
exacting
forcing
heat-on
hurry-up
immediate
irresistible
obliging
persuasive
requiring
unyielding
now or never
of the essence
of the utmost importance
significant
paramount
indispensable
required
requisite
needed
of great consequence
needful
pre-eminent
all-important
life-and-death
mandatory
fundamental
integral
consequential
vitally important
must-have
momentous
compulsory
called for
obligatory
grave
central
prerequisite
desperate
decisive
great
weighty
substantive
basic
pertinent
current
all important
cardinal
extreme
topical
prevalent
relevant
severe
controversial
active
drastic
intense
contemporary
binding
parlous
terrible
peremptory
climacteric
sore
live
very important
deciding
very great
demanded
primary
heavy
principal
meaningful
chief
earth-shattering
life-or-death
world-shaking
bottom-line
insistent
overriding
coercive
unavoidable
without
lacking
needing
worrying
strategic
determinative
necessitating
involving
basal
fatal
major
radical
mission-critical
business-critical
demanding attention
real
calling for
clamorous
underlined
constitutive
lively
nitty-gritty
much needed
meat-and-potatoes
name-of-the-game
coal-and-ice
of interest
incumbent
intrinsic
involuntary
forced
core
nonelective
emergency
impelling
popular
dominant
widespread
running
appropriate
compulsatory
rudimentary
innate
inherent
leading
capital
driving
foremost
quintessential
expedient
incumbent on
prime
wanted
name of game
specified
desired
preferred
elementary
proper
recommended
de rigueur
prevailing
earnest
circulating
common
portentous
historic
alive
debatable
unsettled
fateful
apocalyptic
determining
effective
top-priority
called-for
life and death
epoch-making
earth-shaking
far-reaching
of current interest
life-saving
world-shattering
life or death
of great moment
of vital importance
extremely important
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Upset and angry
sore
angry
annoyed
cross
upset
irritated
angered
enraged
furious
indignant
vexed
aggrieved
bitter
irked
resentful
bothered
rancorous
acrimonious
disgruntled
displeased
dissatisfied
exasperated
galled
offended
peeved
riled
affronted
aggravated
embittered
hurt
miffed
nettled
pained
piqued
ruffled
stung
apoplectic
ballistic
cheesed off
choleric
eggy
enflamed
foaming
fuming
grieved
hopping
horn-mad
hot
in a temper
incensed
inflamed
infuriate
infuriated
irate
ireful
livid
mad
narked
outraged
put out
rabid
rankled
riley
roiled
shirty
steaming
ticked
wrathful
wroth
hoha
steamed
teed off
tooshie
acrid
afflicted
annoying
brassed off
browned off
grieving
hacked off
hard
in high dudgeon
peed off
steamed up
troubled
weighty
not best pleased
ticked off
in a huff
hot under the collar
bent out of shape
hopping mad
fit to be tied
going crook
in a fume
in a pet
blue in the face
huffy
provoked
foaming at the mouth
boiling
raging
seething
up in arms
fed up
discontented
beside oneself
snaky
miffy
on the warpath
incandescent
testy
choked
snuffy
crook
maddened
wild
vex
irritable
ratty
frenzied
in a frenzy
ropeable
beside yourself
aerated
raving
in a lather
sullen
as cross as two sticks
frustrated
ranting
disturbed
soreheaded
in a bad mood
worked up
sulky
agitated
spiteful
ill-humoured
UK
off the air
ill-humored
US
distressed
crabby
wounded
splenetic
perturbed
waxy
red
unhappy
grumpy
insulted
petulant
irascible
peevish
sour
surly
scunnered
ill-tempered
bad-tempered
impatient
grouchy
snappy
touchy
very angry
seeing red
wrath
hot-tempered
wound up
short-tempered
swollen
fiery
heated
malcontent
hateful
churlish
bloodshot
flustered
chafed
harassed
cranky
antagonized
US
frantic
tetchy
hostile
prickly
stroppy
antagonised
UK
injured
in a paddy
in a bate
quick-tempered
out of humour
out of sorts
with all guns blazing
grudging
chagrined
disgusted
fractious
querulous
hacked
nasty
snappish
crabbed
fretful
crotchety
cynical
waspish
chippy
perverse
venomous
spare
snarky
pettish
snippy
snippety
liverish
stuffy
painful
filthy
passionate
raspy
bummed out
out of humor
boiling mad
at daggers drawn
raging mad
needled
sensitive
disaffected
rattled
worried
bugged
violent
berserk
anguished
disagreeable
cantankerous
malignant
vehement
scornful
vitriolic
slighted
discontent
disappointed
unforgiving
desperate
demented
crazed
maniac
bent
unreasonable
smoking
insane
corybantic
irrational
huffish
harried
malicious
critical
morose
roused
captious
burned up
dyspeptic
uptight
acid
mean
narky
vindictive
scandalized
US
antagonistic
crusty
grousing
out of temper
griping
dirty
unglued
shocked
scandalised
UK
storming
dark
short
ill-disposed
gnashing one's teeth
mardy
caviling
US
cavilling
UK
hard done by
in a towering rage
in a rage
thin-skinned
all steamed up
overcome with anger
ill-natured
pushed too far
at boiling point
blown a gasket
in a filthy temper
beside yourself with rage
sombre
UK
somber
US
pink
scalding
steamy
piping
unimpressed
airborne
air-to-air
flying
ballistical
surface-to-air
goaded
excited
burning with excitement
anxious
het up
blazing
p.o.'d
raw
infected
reproachful
snubbed
confused
fretted
hassled
chafing
septic
reddened
tormented
rousted
snitty
bloody
dishonored
US
humiliated
perplexed
salty
dogged
buffaloed
festered
itching
smarting
tender
stinging
burning
itchy
angry-looking
black
flaming
umbrageous
dishonoured
UK
blazing mad
flaming mad
wronged
wry
as black as thunder
puffed up
fevered
festering
at end of one's rope
hot and bothered
rubbed the wrong way
harmed
very upset
out of control
out of countenance
blistered
burnt
scalded
in a wax
ill-used
woeful
saddened
malcontented
crabbing
bellyaching
uncontent
kvetching
kicking
ungratified
contemptuous
disdainful
raving mad
revengeful
begrudging
malevolent
persecuted
oppressed
victimised
UK
depressed
victimized
US
full-on
all-out
uncompromising
energetic
manic
breakneck
concerted
bad tempered
out of joint
red-rimmed
vengeful
pernicious
jaundiced
up the wall
severe
extremely angry
sardonic
irreconcilable
caustic
baleful
virulent
gory
disillusioned
exacerbated
malign
alienated
soured
catty
maleficent
malefic
estranged
with chip on shoulder
grudge-bearing
jumpy
faultfinding
with a chip on one's shoulder
antipathetic
poisonous
fierce
bloodstained
ensanguined
vicious
frenetic
rage
tense
implacable
begruding
evil-intentioned
temperamental
feisty
bristly
glum
curt
moody
unsociable
argumentative
gruff
volatile
whingy
full of hate
with a chip on your shoulder
nursing a grudge
shrewish
brusque
misanthropic
hotheaded
pouty
oversensitive
ornery
obstinate
quarrelsome
difficult
bilious
contentious
truculent
harsh
pertinacious
uncooperative
snarling
contrary
peckish
whiny
peppery
hypercritical
whining
miserable
grumbling
curmudgeonly
crybaby
ungracious
gloomy
iracund
tough
brooding
iracundulous
edgy
bearish
pouting
fussy
disputatious
scratchy
waspy
trying
having got out of bed on the wrong side
dour
nasty-tempered
mumpish
growling
tart
sharp
in a mood
sorehead
saturnine
blunt
cussed
fault-finding
on edge
cross-grained
carping
awkward
like a bear with a sore head
on a short fuse
complaining
fretting
vinegary
whingeing
childish
foul-tempered
out-of-sorts
hasty
hot-blooded
ugly
having got out of bed the wrong side
obstreperous
short-fused
chuffy
easily offended
unfriendly
aggressive
unpleasant
belligerent
bloody-minded
rude
glowering
bellicose
pugnacious
mopey
scrappy
unkind
combative
moping
discourteous
uncivil
impolite
scowling
arsey
defiant
uncommunicative
confrontational
abrupt
excitable
threatening
inhospitable
militant
frowning
aloof
uncongenial
warlike
joyless
unmannerly
unsympathetic
unresponsive
censorious
unsmiling
inimical
hot-headed
menacing
agonistic
ticklish
discordant
taciturn
ferocious
assaultive
obnoxious
sourpussed
distant
humourless
UK
humorless
US
sulking
cruel
unapproachable
hurtful
sarcastic
mean-spirited
negative
restive
destructive
easily upset
restless
abusive
cold
adversarial
wicked
mopish
cool
disobliging
unattractive
snarly
dejected
envenomed
chilly
cheerless
louring
atrabilious
bad
frosty
stern
inconsiderate
scathing
boorish
unhelpful
unneighbourly
frigid
unruly
gladiatorial
discouraged
unlikable
dismal
savage
brawly
withdrawn
blue
chill
wintry
US
clammy
cold-blooded
cold-eyed
wintery
UK
antiseptic
uncordial
hard-eyed
gelid
brittle
frozen
icy
arctic
glacial
coldish
intimidating
impulsive
impetuous
uncharitable
hate-filled
inflammable
stiff
down in the mouth
ready for a fight
sharp-tongued
loudmouthed
unsavoury
UK
uneasy
offensive
distraught
uncomfortable
overwrought
objectionable
mighty
good and mad
mad as hell
stressed
fidgety
foul
unlikeable
disrespected
terse
disrespectful
brief
hypersensitive
vinegarish
crazy
spunky
acute
acerbic
bad-humored
ready to be tied
lugubrious
wrought up
ill at ease
unsettled
no-nonsense
laconic
rough
bluff
unindulgent
uncontrollable
ungenerous
tempersome
zowerswopped
adverse
disheartened
recalcitrant
offhand
Eeyorish
pessimistic
sober
wreck
unquiet
overstrung
twitchy
nervous
refractory
crackers
forceful
viperous
perversely irritable
emotional
like a bear
ill-mannered
unceremonious
froward
plaintive
murmuring
stewed
apt to fly off the handle
toey
indomitable
indocile
uncompliant
ill
offish
off
unfulfilled
defeated
perturbable
dicey
hazardous
unsafe
unpredictable
highly strung
unsavory
US
litigious
agitable
broody
with a long face
sharp-tempered
got up on wrong side of bed
crude
boisterous
unsatisfied
unsated
disputative
in a funk
in the sulks
in a strop
having a fit of the sulks
having short fuse
unlovable
evil-minded
neurotic
mopy
kittle
skittish
warring
factious
wired up
moaning
wailing
crying
deploring
lamenting
grumbly
bemoaning
whimpering
eristic
hot under collar
carrying a chip on your shoulder
hung up
bundle of nerves
ghastly
insufferable
unbearable
frightful
irritating
controversial
polemical
polemic
battling
dissentious
fighting
unloveable
ructious
arguesome
wrangling
bickering
tempestuous
impassioned
turbulent
war
brawling
high-strung
long-faced
hard to please
easily agitated
easily frightened
have chip on shoulder
forbidding
evil
despondent
huffy irascible
steely
uninviting
flinty
disconsolate
sad
downcast
serious
formidable
melancholic
forlorn
low
down
strict
stony
sinister
stark
lowering
solemn
ungentle
fell
austere
grave
unamicable
antisocial
inconsolable
disenchanted
crestfallen
doleful
gutted
downhearted
unsocial
unwelcoming
unaffable
bolshie
aggers
resolute
bleak
reserved
stand-offish
sorrowful
deadly
terrifying
cowing
terrorizing
US
vituperous
terrorising
UK
trenchant
mordacious
insolent
frightening
browbeating
bullying
mordant
gray
US
grey
UK
grim
supercilious
unforthcoming
haughty
impersonal
indifferent
adversary
mortal
sick
Olympian
starchy
spoiling for a fight
mean-looking
boot-faced
against
conflicting
opposite
competitive
unpromising
opposed
unneighborly
low-spirited
not on speaking terms
disparaging
overcritical
deprecating
nagging
pedantic
quibbling
niggling
pettifogging
nit-picking
hair-splitting
nitpicking
criticizing
US
judgemental
judgmental
disapproving
rejective
pernickety
pass-remarkable
nitpicky
thorny
exceptive
criticising
UK
exacting
unjust
unfair
hairsplitting
very critical
petty
demanding
trivial
cavillous
finicky
tricky
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 under your skin
getting up your nose
getting your goat
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 your back up
getting your dander 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
making someone's blood boil
getting in someone's hair
rattling someone's cage
getting someone's dander up
getting on one's nerves
trying someone's patience
getting on someone's tits
getting up someone's nose
getting someone's hackles up
getting under someone's skin
getting someone's goat
making someone's hackles rise
getting someone's back up
tormenting
afflicting
discomposing
disquieting
rattling
fretting
disconcerting
flustering
rasping
dismaying
unsettling
besetting
perplexing
hounding
fazing
griping
oppressing
torturing
offending
paining
agonizing
US
burdening
fussing
itching
discomfiting
giving a hard time
alarming
concerning
ailing
harrowing
unnerving
flurrying
agonising
UK
distracting
stressing
hurting
discomforting
confusing
confounding
trying
racking
unhinging
depressing
mortifying
outraging
grieving
discommoding
frazzling
distempering
haunting
affronting
discombobulating
derailing
exercising
roiling
bullying
straining
saddening
inconveniencing
hagriding
weirding out
freaking out
wounding
exacerbating
baiting
discountenancing
cursing
embarrassing
appalling
throwing
gnawing at
shaking
alaruming
undoing
nonplussing
anguishing
besieging
humping
disgusting
bewildering
niggling
dogging
frightening
chivvying
making uneasy
intimidating
disgruntling
picking on
aggrieving
daunting
chagrining
disheartening
mithering
discouraging
scaring
making anxious
weighing down
putting off
throwing off balance
devilling
deviling
excruciating
heckling
hectoring
puzzling
taunting
abashing
stinging
rankling with
rubbing the wrong way
causing suffering to
stirring up
taxing
insulting
sickening
shaking up
demoralizing
US
dispiriting
smiting
affecting
chivying
pursuing
spooking
lying heavy on
panicking
demoralising
UK
disrupting
stewing
disobliging
injuring
browbeating
abrading
taking aback
dejecting
grating on
eating at
cutting to the quick
blighting
shocking
fearing
crushing
horrifying
obsessing
dissatisfying
terrorizing
US
exciting
sweating
flummoxing
mystifying
dumbfounding
crucifying
casting down
keeping after
pothering
burning
getting under one's skin
keeping on at
going on at
terrorising
UK
assailing
traumatizing
US
rousing
interrupting
nauseating
importuning
cowing
madding
iring
enflaming
chilling
chillin
hazing
dissing
muddling
making uncomfortable
fuddling
beating
throwing off
steaming up
tantalizing
US
sending into a rage
working up
causing anxiety to
getting one's goat
putting someone off their stroke
nagging at
weighing heavily on
giving a bad time
tantalising
UK
traumatising
UK
eating away at
intruding upon
baffling
repelling
startling
overwhelming
dampening
deranging
victimizing
US
ridiculing
pressing
embittering
criticizing
US
disappointing
dashing
wearying
addling
ragging
wringing
dunning
terrifying
attacking
preoccupying
crazing
making miserable
preying on
hanging over
martyring
putting down
imposing on
driving bananas
criticising
UK
psyching out
getting on someone's wick
mixing up
dumping on
bending someone's ear
putting on the spot
hanging up
wearing on
victimising
UK
causing trouble to
revolting
destabilizing
US
disordering
brooding
souring
devastating
slighting
driving you up the wall
repulsing
unmanning
harming
ribbing
jarring
deterring
bamboozling
desolating
chaffing
confronting
pricking
disarranging
tiring
unbalancing
moving
surprising
befuddling
stumping
getting across someone
dazing
gibing
making nervous
slapping
possessing
interfering
abasing
suffering
debilitating
making wretched
flooring
feeling uneasy
putting into a flap
beating down
rattling one's cage
harping on at
bleeding
getting in one's hair
weighing
making unhappy
jarring on
putting in a spot
weighing on
putting someone's nose out of joint
causing discomfort to
getting on nerves
throwing into a tizz
losing sleep
destabilising
UK
breathing down someone's neck
wearing
trying the patience of
rubbing you up the wrong way
putting someone's back up
putting to trouble
getting a rise out of
getting on somebody's nerves
putting a damper on
knocking for six
wearing out
getting under skin
causing anguish to
sapping
facing
mocking
testing
bemusing
subduing
jeering
scolding
damaging
disaffecting
stupefying
disillusioning
prodding
overawing
domineering
guying
inciting
festering
stretching
carping
draining
awing
aweing
berating
scandalizing
US
lowering
foxing
disorienting
buffaloing
mazing
reviling
imposing
despairing
jolting
disparaging
shattering
disorganizing
scarring
scorning
pressurizing
US
disrespecting
enervating
befogging
disarraying
cramping
caviling
US
cavilling
UK
chiding
reproaching
meddling
mistreating
gripping
relucting
pressing down on
bringing down
posing
muddying
curdling
picking at
disorientating
pushing
upbraiding
boring
stunning
turning
concerning oneself
arousing
stressing out
making despondent
making fretful
disenchanting
taking
making self-conscious
bumming
indisposing
breaking one's heart
fuming
grilling
biting
visiting
making it hot for someone
giving the business
umbraging
pecking at
tearing
making it tough
messing with
flipping out
hurting someone's feelings
getting your hackles up
getting in a sweat
raising your hackles
getting down
sticking in one's craw
lousing up
hacking
setting one's teeth on edge
balling up
knocking sideways
getting in a fluster
scandalising
UK
driving insane
making someone scratch their head
inflicting anguish on
punishing
turning on
infesting
tormenting oneself
making things hot for someone
causing someone to lose their composure
intoxicating
leaning on
getting in a tizz
hurting one's feelings
getting someone
pulling the rug out from under
trying your patience
giving offence to
making blood boil
getting worked up
examining
hunting
getting in a tizzy
getting in a panic
pulling the rug from under
throwing into a tizzy
getting overwrought
getting in a flap
losing sleep over
wronging
imposing upon
flipping
quizzing
getting in a lather
giving trouble
causing concern to
making discontented
acerbating
torturing oneself
causing agony to
going to one's head
intruding
trying one's patience
niggling at
blowing one's mind
taking the piss out of
getting in a state
making punchy
setting someone back on their heels
pushing buttons
getting someone down
doing in
pressurising
UK
causing anxiety
making a scene
getting steamed up
letting down
buffeting
dulling
buffetting
inebriating
aching
occupying
exhausting
irritating greatly
spurring
heating
hurrying
bedogging
compressing
squeezing
pinching
browning off
empurpling
causing annoyance to
causing resentment to
wigging
getting on someone
ruffling one's feathers
excoriating
recurring
reminding
insisting
cutting
putting your nose out of joint
insisting on
bustling
causing disquiet to
finding fault
tangling
searing
giving someone hell
pushing someon's buttons
messing
putting to some trouble
being
stimulating
hurting the feelings of
tearing to pieces
knocking off balance
steaming
consternating
buttonholing
resenting
eating up
shaming
unquieting
pushing one's buttons
making restless
preying on one's mind
complicating
astounding
getting in the way
amazing
staying with
coming back to
putting off his or her stride
taking the wind out of someone's sails
worsting
discontenting
humiliating
making downhearted
tweaking
running up the wrong way
questioning
chevying
belabouring
UK
feeling unwell
feeling pain
causing to panic
barracking
booing
stirring
making it tough for
cutting up
strapping
doing a number on
arousing anxiety in
nit-picking
throwing a curve
blinding
knocking props out
unstringing
fraying
tattering
eroding
taking over
taking control of
fermenting
sending into a spin
putting on edge
envenoming
rousting
foiling
thwarting
grizzling
prostrating
repressing
causing to lose heart
deprecating
drooping
jarring upon
setting your teeth on edge
grating upon
wearing upon
capping
mispleasing
zinging
cooling
winging
sounding
dizzying
catching somebody unawares
astonishing
catching somebody off balance
dwelling on
biting one's nails
getting stressed
having qualms
riling up
rubbing one the wrong way
tiring out
making severe demands on
making demands on
putting a strain on
setting on
putting someone out
taking a rise out of
starting
setting one off
working into lather
shouting down
deeply upsetting
inflicting trauma
making flip
macerating
foraying
ventilating
noodging
bullyragging
working someone up
bugging up
despoiling
jerking around
winding somebody up
playing dirty
boning
leading someone a merry dance
playing cat and mouse
putting through wringer
rubbing salt in wound
alienating
poisoning
accosting
obtruding
encroaching
breaking in
demeaning
sticking it to
lying heavily on
bringing pressure to bear on
giving it to
dishing it out
putting pressure on
preying on your mind
dishing out
overcharging
crabbing
begrudging
getting even
grudging
upsetting the apple cart
cramping style
wearing down
scouring
hissing
quickening
motivating
awaking
absorbing
igniting
grabbing
attracting
interesting
finding fault with
grinding
paralysing
UK
brutalising
UK
mangling
martyrizing
impaling
whipping
becoming bored
brutalizing
US
grating at
lacerating
having had enough
making fed up
mutilating
maiming
losing patience
dementing
jumbling
rummaging
downing
displacing
putting
blustering
furbelowing
frilling
throwing into tizzy
getting up somebody's nose
getting on the wrong side of
driving you crazy
sticking the knife into
singling out
exiling
expelling
dragooning
getting the knife into
petting
tiffing
huffing
discrediting
dishonouring
UK
knocking the wind out of
ill-treating
hurting deeply
causing pain to
harshing one's mellow
lampooning
getting on the nerves of
getting in the hair of
razzing
taking the mickey out of
affrighting
slandering
dispraising
abusing
giving the cold shoulder
giving a zinger
pushing the buttons of
thumbing nose at
causing suffering
causing anguish
throwing into confusion
throwing into disorder
causing sorrow
lambasting
mourning
throwing into uproar
causing offense
making livid
making your hackles rise
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
driving somebody up the wall
causing inconvenience to
creating difficulties for
making awkward
making ashamed
owning
showing up
raging
wearing away
biting into
gnawing away at
scraping away
wearing to shreds
disengaging
detaching
sending over the edge
separating
disconnecting
uncoupling
unhitching
unfastening
deriding
keying up
incapacitating
rocking the boat
laying up
hurting somebody's feelings
screwing up
filling with consternation
paralyzing
US
giving someone a turn
fouling up
putting the wind up someone
messing up
snafuing
mucking up
shouting at
butting in
jibing at
shouting catcalls at
making game of
making a monkey of
dishonoring
US
putting out of countenance
catching one short
putting in a hole
subjugating
suppressing
stifling
horning in on
intruding on
butting in on
interfering with
barging in on
entangling
hampering
inflicting
aggressing
belaboring
US
bombarding
jumping on one's case
giving the needle
falling on
giving one the business
putting the squeeze on
falling upon
starting in on
scratching around
ragging on
yapping at
searching high heaven
disadvantaging
catching
sweating out
befalling
wreaking
wrecking
devitalizing
smothering
diminishing
weakening
squelching
making resentful
jaundicing
empoisoning
making bitter
jeering at
sneering
scoffing at
twitting
sledging
gibing at
sneering at
casting a gloom upon
dragging
damping
running down
making gloomy
darkening
making sad
turning one off
pouring cold water on
throwing cold water on
bringing tears to your eyes
knocking the stuffing out of
breaking someone's heart
making someone fed up
harshing someone's mellow
giving someone the blues
reducing to tears
making desolate
making your heart bleed
bearing down
keeping under
extinguishing
defeating
humbling
deadening
overcoming
curbing
quelling
overpowering
worsening
discommodating
putting someone to trouble
giving someone bother
causing someone difficulty
making someone go out of his way
overriding
tyrannizing
US
louting
twittering
disdaining
jabbing
scouting
poking fun at
making sport of
slamming
rallying
making fun of
flouting
swipeing at
digging
bringing one down
dampening spirits
wildering
making blue
putting into a funk
chastening
breaking the heart of
dragging down
fogging
flabbergasting
bearing down on
casting a pall over
damping down
enslaving
tyrannizing over
dominating
tyrannising
UK
obfuscating
snowing
making rancorous
acidulating
venoming
estranging
bittering
avenging
descending on
descending upon
bringing down on
forcing upon
making ill
setting thinking
stymieing
bringing up short
causing to be at a stand
staggering
messing with one's head
setting someone thinking
moping
seizing
depredating
extorting
blackmailing
devouring
raiding
taking advantage of
plundering
killing
feeding on
fleecing
living off
loading
living on
exploiting
consuming
having an adverse effect on
striking down
going against the grain
making unwell
causing illness to
causing problems
disagreeing
sorrowing
upsetting oneself
complaining
sighing
pining
tensing
overtaxing
pressuring
overstretching
crossing
hindering
impeding
grossing out
squicking
carping at
grumbling
whining
feeling unhappy
turning one's stomach
making one sick
causing aversion
surfeiting
causing to feel nauseous
turning your stomach
palling
offending morals of
abominating
making someone want to throw up
cloying on
making shudder
filling with loathing
threatening
distressing oneself
making a fuss
carrying a heavy load
upsetting yourself
taking on
distressing yourself
getting into a dither
eating one's heart out
sweating it out
feeling peeved
dithering
enduring
abiding
exerting
stomaching
dreading
standing
going
tolerating
brooking
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
staying the course
sticking it out
striking
imperilling
UK
endangering
imperiling
US
jeoparding
periling
adventuring
jeopardizing
US
venturing
risking
compromising
hazarding
issuing threats to
whipping around
scaring hell out of
impending
putting heat on
menacing
pushing around
jeopardising
UK
gambling with
uttering threats to
looming
portending
getting in a tiz-woz
going through the mill
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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