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distressful

adj

Etymology

From distress + -ful.

  1. derived from destrece
  2. inherited from distresse
  3. derived from distringō
  4. derived from destrecier
  5. inherited from distressen
  6. suffixed as distressful — “distress + ful”

Definitions

  1. Causing or feeling distress, anxiety, or strain

    Causing or feeling distress, anxiety, or strain; distressing.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at distressful. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01distressful02distress03suffering04pain05annoying06troublesome07anxiety08distressing

A definitional loop anchored at distressful. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at distressful

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA