Synset:distressing disturbing perturbing troubling worrisome worrying
Examples:
- distressing (or disturbing) news
- lived in heroic if something distressful isolation
- a disturbing amount of crime
- a revelation that was most perturbing
- a new and troubling thought
- in a particularly worrisome predicament
- a worrying situation
- a worrying time
Antonyms:light
Derivationally Related Form:distressfulness
Inherited Hypernyms:distressing
Similar to:heavy