Distress synonyms | Another word for distress

Condition, ache, danger, adversity, affecting, age, and chip are all synonyms for distress. Happiness and comfort are these antonyms of distress. And here are another 121 synonyms for distress.

Distress Synonyms

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