Thesaurus:distress

Thesaurus

distress

English

Noun

Sense: mental or emotional suffering

Synonyms

• anguish
• difficulty
• distress
• grief
• hardship
• pain    [⇒ thesaurus]
• smart
• torment
• torture    [⇒ thesaurus]
• trouble

Antonyms

• calmness    [⇒ thesaurus]
• pleasure    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• anxiety
• fear    [⇒ thesaurus]
• grief
• humiliation
• misery
• sorrow
• terror    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• sensation    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:offend
• Thesaurus:vex

Further reading

• “828. pain” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “distress” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.