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distressed
adjective
1 distressed
Facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty:
— Distressed companies need loans and technical advice.
synonyms: hard-pressed, hard put, in a bad way.
Roget 804:
poor,
indigent;
poverty-stricken;
badly off,
poorly off,
ill off;
poor as a rat,
poor as a church mouse,
poor as a Job;
fortuneless†,
dowerless†,
moneyless†,
penniless;
unportioned†,
unmoneyed†;
impecunious;
out of money,
out of cash,
short of money,
short of cash;
without a rap,
not worth a rap
etc.
(money)
800;
qui n'a pas le sou [Fr.],
out of pocket,
hard up;
out at elbows,
out at heels;
seedy,
bare-footed;
beggarly,
beggared;
destitute;
fleeced,
stripped;
bereft,
bereaved;
reduced;
homeless.
in want
etc.
n.;
needy,
necessitous,
distressed,
pinched,
straitened;
put to one's shifts,
put to one's last shifts;
unable to keep the wolf from the door,
unable to make both ends meet;
embarrassed,
under hatches;
involved
etc.
(in debt)
806;
insolvent
etc.
(not paying)
808.
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2 distressed
3 distressed
Suffering severe physical strain or distress:
— He dropped out of the race, clearly distressed and having difficulty breathing.
synonym: stressed.
4 distressed
Afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief:
— Distressed about her son's leaving home.
synonyms: disquieted, disturbed, upset, worried.
Moby thesaurus: abashed, afflicted, agitated, agonized, annoyed, anxious, badly off, beset, bothered, cast down, chagrined, chapfallen, confused, convulsed, crucified, discomfited, discomforted, discomposed, disconcerted, disquieted, distracted, distrait, disturbed, down to bedrock, embarrassed, feeling the pinch, harassed, hard up, harrowed, hung up, hurt, hurting, ill at ease, ill off, impecunious, in Queer Street, in distress, in narrow circumstances, in pain, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, inconvenienced, irked, lacerated, land-poor, martyred, martyrized, mortified, narrow, on the edge, on the rack, out of countenance, out of pocket, pained, perturbed, pinched, plagued, poor, poorly off, put to it, put-out, put-upon, puzzled, racked, reduced, short, short of cash, short of funds, short of money, sore beset, squeezed, straitened, strapped, suffering, tormented, tortured, troubled, twisted, uncomfortable, under the harrow, uneasy, unmoneyed, unprosperous, upset, vexed, worried, wounded, wrung ... show more.
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