distressed

  • (s) facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
    • distressed companies need loans and technical advice
    • financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices
    • we were hard put to meet the mortgage payment
    • found themselves in a bad way financially
    hard-pressed, hard put, in a bad way,
  • (a) generalized feeling of distress dysphoric, unhappy,
  • (s) suffering severe physical strain or distress
    • he dropped out of the race, clearly distressed and having difficulty breathing
    stressed,
  • (s) afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
    • too upset to say anything
    • spent many disquieted moments
    • distressed about her son's leaving home
    • lapsed into disturbed sleep
    • worried parents
    • a worried frown
    • one last worried check of the sleeping children
    disquieted, upset, worried, disturbed,

Synonyms

hard-pressed hard put in a bad way dysphoric unhappy stressed disquieted upset worried disturbed

Antonyms

euphoric

See also

dejected unhappy

Words of close approximity