Grievous, painful; unpleasant, disagreeable; loathsome, horrible.

Causing or involving, accompanied by, mental pain, trouble, or distress.

Subjectively. Full of pain or suffering, painful. Obsolete.

Of things: Fraught or attended with sorrow, trouble, or anxiety. Obsolete or archaic.

Of a part of the body, a wound, etc.: painful, sore; throbbing with pain; (of a need, desire, etc.) giving rise to continuous or recurring mental…

Full of suffering; painful, distressing; tormented.

distressing, painful.

That pines (in various senses); †tormenting, afflicting, painful (obsolete); causing or suffering wasting. Also: languishing, suffering emotional…

figurative. That causes sharp mental pain or irritation, poignant; that goads or stimulates. Of speech: Biting, pungent.

figurative. Stiff; severe, violent; †(sometimes) grievous, painful; of a contest, etc.: stoutly maintained, strenuous, vigorous and stubborn.

doing harm, hurtful.

Unbecoming, improper; bad.

Grievous.

Troubling, painful, persistent.

Cumbersome, distressing, troublesome.

Causing grief or pain; distressing, hurtful, injurious.

Causing or accompanied by mental pain or suffering; distressing, hurtful.

Full of complaint or lamentation; plaintive, mournful; (in early use also) †occasioning grief, lamentable (obsolete).

distressful.

afflicting, grievous.

Afflicting, distressing, ‘trying’. Obsolete.

Troublesome, vexatious, irksome; = importunate, adj. 2b. Formerly also: †severe, hard, cruel (obsolete). Now rare.

grievous, distressing.

Causing or involving pain or trouble; (very) painful; arduous.

Causing discomfort (in various senses).

That causes grief, pain, or annoyance.

that feels remorse, remorseful; (also) causing remorse.

Grievous, distressing.

Causing displeasure, pain, or inconvenience; unpleasant, offensive, disagreeable; troublesome, vexing, trying, difficult.

That pains; causing or accompanied by hurt or suffering.

figurative. Characterized by extreme emotional sensitivity; emotionally scarred or fragile. Frequently in raw nerve; cf. to touch (also hit) a (raw)…

That causes physical discomfort or emotional distress.

Painful, distressing; (in later use also) stinging, irritating.

Causing physical or emotional pain or distress (likened to the effect of pressure); pressing severely or painfully; spec. (of the wind, rain…

Distressing, painful.

Causing pain or distress, physical or mental; painful, distressing.

Characterized by affliction; tending to inflict continued pain or distress; distressing, painful; trying, troublesome (to someone).

That oppresses mentally; burdensome.

Rough to the feelings; painfully rough. Obsolete.

Emotionally distressing. Obsolete. rare.

An attribute of care, or the like: Burdening, distressing, grieving, wearing, fretting.

Grievous, annoying, distressing.

Scottish and northern dialect. Sad, sorrowful, hard to endure.

Terrifying, extremely unpleasant or distressing; that causes nausea or severely upsets the stomach.