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distressful

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11 lettersPart of speech adjectiveSorted defilrssstuStarts with DEnds with L0 clues
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Definitions

  1. causing distress or worry or anxiety

Word origin

From distress + -ful.

Used in a sentence

  • There, vvhile above the giddy tempeſt flies, / And all around diſtreſsful yells ariſe, / The penſive exile, bending vvith his vvoe, / To ſtop too fearful, and too faint to go.
  • Once more, that fulness of prophetic joy, / With which this unborn Jubilee he mark'd / Through the long vista of distressful years, / While the dark war-clouds gathering at his feet / Involved the scene.
  • If I'm never successful, / It won't be distressful, / 'Cos I don't care.

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