distressful
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editdistressful (comparative more distressful, superlative most distressful)
- Causing or feeling distress, anxiety, or strain; distressing.
- 1764 December 19 (indicated as 1765), Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or A Prospect of Society. A Poem. […], London: […] J[ohn] Newbery, […], →OCLC, page 21:
- There, vvhile above the giddy tempeſt flies, / And all around diſtreſsful yells ariſe, / The penſive exile, bending vvith his vvoe, / To ſtop too fearful, and too faint to go.
- 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, On the Death of John Adams, pages 191-192:
- Once more, that fulness of prophetic joy, / With which this unborn Jubilee he mark'd / Through the long vista of distressful years, / While the dark war-clouds gathering at his feet / Involved the scene.
- 1905, “I Don't Care”, Jean Lenox (lyrics), Harry O. Sutton (music), performed by Eva Tanguay:
- If I'm never successful, / It won't be distressful, / 'Cos I don't care.
Alternative forms
edit- distressfull (obsolete)