distress
Urgent emotional pain
Distress is suffering or anxiety caused by pain, trouble, or misfortune: The news caused her great distress.
A ship or plane in distress faces danger and needs help.
Financial distress means serious money trouble.
Distressed furniture has been deliberately aged or weathered.
To distress someone is to cause them worry or anguish.
Intense mental suffering
- agonyExtreme physical or emotional pain
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
- despairTotal absence of hope
grief · sorrow · misery · woe · suffering · pain · desolation · hopelessness
Bodily or emotional distress
- discomfortMild physical or mental distress
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- hurtCause or feel pain
- achePersistent dull discomfort
soreness · agony · injury · ailment · malaise · affliction · bodily · symptoms
Troubled mental state
- uneaseMild persistent worry
- disquietMental unrest or agitation
- agitationDisturbed, restless state
- nervousnessState of anxious unease
perturbation · trepidation · restlessness · fretfulness · apprehension · dread · panic · alarmed
Severe difficulty or suffering
- struggleLabored effort against resistance
- deprivationState of lacking necessities
- privationLack of necessities
- povertySevere lack of resources
austerity · plight · predicament · misfortune · difficulty · tribulation · burden · ordeal
Morse distress code
- maydayRadio emergency signal
- flareSudden bright burst
- beaconGuiding light source
- alertWarning or watchfulness
alarm · warning · rescue · coastguard · lifeboat · help · aid · assistance
Serious sudden danger
- calamitySevere misfortune or disaster
- catastropheDevastating, large-scale misfortune
- disasterSudden ruinous event
- collapseSudden structural failure
turmoil · upheaval · breakdown · meltdown · trouble · peril · danger · dire
Chronic reaction to horrific events
- flashbacksInvoluntary vivid memory episodes
- nightmaresTerrifying sleep experiences
- traumatizedEmotionally damaged by experience
- shell-shockedMentally broken by combat
wounded · scarred · survivor · victim · therapy · counseling · healing · recovery
anguish
Intense mental suffering
- agonyExtreme physical or emotional pain
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
despair · grief · sorrow · misery · woe · suffering · pain · desolation · hopelessness · melancholy
pain
Bodily or emotional distress
- discomfortMild physical or mental distress
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- hurtCause or feel pain
ache · soreness · agony · injury · ailment · malaise · affliction · bodily · symptoms · acute
worry
Troubled mental state
nervousness · perturbation · trepidation · restlessness · fretfulness · apprehension · dread · panic · alarmed · upset
adversity
Severe difficulty or suffering
- struggleLabored effort against resistance
- deprivationState of lacking necessities
- privationLack of necessities
poverty · austerity · plight · predicament · misfortune · difficulty · tribulation · burden · ordeal · destitution
SOS
Morse distress code
alert · alarm · warning · rescue · coastguard · lifeboat · help · aid · assistance · semaphore
emergency
Serious sudden danger
- calamitySevere misfortune or disaster
- catastropheDevastating, large-scale misfortune
- disasterSudden ruinous event
collapse · turmoil · upheaval · breakdown · meltdown · trouble · peril · danger · dire · urgent
PTSD
Chronic reaction to horrific events
- flashbacksInvoluntary vivid memory episodes
- nightmaresTerrifying sleep experiences
- traumatizedEmotionally damaged by experience
shell-shocked · wounded · scarred · survivor · victim · therapy · counseling · healing · recovery · retraumatization
- Anxietyanxiety, nervousness, panic, worry, generalized anxiety
- agitationagitation, anxiety, worry, nervousness, unease
- anxietiesworry, angst, nervousness, dread, apprehension
- hardshiphardship, adversity, difficulty, trouble, struggle
- inner turmoilinner turmoil, inner conflict, inner struggle, self-doubt, indecision
- rescuerescue, rescue team, search and rescue, rescue dog, save
distresssafety
Freedom from harm
security · prosperity · safeness · secureness · comfort
- distress beaconDevice broadcasting location during emergencies
- distress signalsUrgent pleas for rescue
- intestinal distressAbdominal discomfort from digestion
- distress callUrgent plea for aid
- damsel in distressWoman needing rescue
- distressed jeansPants made to appear worn
distressed, distressing, distressful, distresses, distressingly, distressfully, distress signal, distress signals