• adj.
    ⦿causing distress or worry or anxiety
    lexical concept
  • a disturbing amount of crime
  • a new and troubling thought
  • a revelation that was most perturbing
  • a worrying situation
  • a worrying time
  • distressing (or disturbing) news
  • in a particularly worrisome predicament
  • lived in heroic if something distressful isolation

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:distressful
  2. enl:distressing
  3. enl:disturbing
  4. enl:perturbing
  5. enl:troubling
  6. enl:worrisome
  7. enl:worrying
wn:interlingual indexili:i6506

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  • distressfuldistressingdisturbingperturbingtroublingworrisomeworrying
  • distressfuldisturbingperturbingtroublingworrisomeworrying