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Definitions
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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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