Distress Synonyms

Condition , ache, danger, adversity, affecting, age, and chip are synonyms for distress; happiness and comfort are antonyms of distress. On this page, you will find 121 another word for distress.

121 Another Word for Distress

1. ache

  • Ache
  • Affliction
  • Agony
  • Anguish
  • Anxiety
  • Desolation
  • Despair
  • Discomfort
  • Disquiet
  • Grief
  • Heartache
  • Heartbreak
  • Misery
  • Pain
  • Perturbation
  • Sadness
  • Sorrow
  • Suffering
  • Torment
  • Torture
  • Trouble
  • Uneasiness
  • Unhappiness
  • Woe
  • Worry
  • Wretchedness
  • Angst

2. difficulty

  • Danger
  • Difficulty
  • Endangerment
  • Hazard
  • Imperilment
  • Insecurity
  • Instability
  • Jeopardy
  • Peril
  • Risk
  • Trouble
  • Precariousness

3. tribulation

  • Adversity
  • Beggary
  • Calamity
  • Deprivation
  • Destitution
  • Hardship
  • Ill/bad luck
  • Impoverishment
  • Indigence
  • Lack
  • Misfortune
  • Need
  • Penury
  • Poverty
  • Privation
  • Tribulation
  • Trouble
  • Want
  • Dire straits

4. pain

  • Affecting
  • Afflict
  • Agitate
  • Agonizing
  • Alarming
  • Arouse anxiety in
  • Bother
  • Cause anguish to
  • Cause suffering to
  • Concerning
  • Curse
  • Cut up
  • Disquiet
  • Disquieting
  • Disturb
  • Disturbing
  • Dog
  • Grieve
  • Gut-wrenching
  • Harrow
  • Harrowing
  • Haunting
  • Heart-rending
  • Heartbreaking
  • Make miserable
  • Make wretched
  • Oppress
  • Pain
  • Painful
  • Perturb
  • Pitiful
  • Plague
  • Rack
  • Sad
  • Sadden
  • Saddening
  • Shocking
  • Torment
  • Tormenting
  • Torture
  • Tragic
  • Traumatic
  • Trouble
  • Unsettling
  • Upset
  • Upsetting
  • Vex
  • Worry
  • Worrying
  • Distressful

5. condition

  • Age
  • Chip
  • Condition
  • Damage
  • Dent
  • Mellow
  • Scratch
  • Season
  • Simulate age in
  • Spoil
  • Weather
  • Batter

Distress Sentences

Her voice showed clear distress yesterday.

The dog was in visible distress today.

He signaled for help in distress.

The distress call went unanswered initially.