Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Suffering distress: the distressed parents of wayward youths.
- adj. Damaged or previously used: distressed merchandise.
- adj. Having been foreclosed and offered for sale, usually at a price below market value: distressed real estate.
- adj. Intentionally marred or faded to convey an antique or used look: distressed furniture; distressed denim.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Suffering distress; exciting pity; miserable: as, a poor distressed object of charity. Also distrest.
Wiktionary
- adj. anxious or uneasy
- adj. of merchandise, etc. damaged
- adj. of a property offered for sale after foreclosure
- adj. of furniture etc faded or abused in order to appear old, or antique
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of distress.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty.
- adj. experienceing a generalized feeling of distress.
- adj. suffering severe physical strain or discomfort.
- adj. emotionally upset.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. generalized feeling of distress
- adj. suffering severe physical strain or distress
- adj. facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
- adj. afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
Examples
“Phoebe Caldwell prefers to use the term distressed behaviour rather than challenging behaviour.”
“In its Southgate appeals brief, the government says that Beal used what it calls the distressed asset/debt or "DAD" shelter multiple times to "stockpile over $4 billion in artificial losses to shelter future income.”
Forbes: Billionaire Banker Beal Wins Timing Victory On Tax Shelter
“We want to be very careful in what we spend money on and how, and so specifically regarding acquisitions, we've seen a few interesting situations to-date in the last couple months but there haven't been a large flow of what I described as distressed sales yet.”
“The first is to create a network to supply public middle school and high school band programs in distressed counties of Appalachia with new and used supplies and instruments.”
The Huffington Post: Greatest Person Of The Day: Ian Felton, Founder Of Marching Mountains
“The second is to improve the quality of band programs in distressed regions of Appalachia and Appalachia in general.”
The Huffington Post: Greatest Person Of The Day: Ian Felton, Founder Of Marching Mountains
“On the plus side, it slows down time, emphasises the particularity of each moment, and shows the dramatic power of silence: very touchingly so when the two old men, acknowledging the imminence of death, go to make their wills and sit staring in distressed silence punctuated by spasmodic snuffles.”
“Lennar Corp. has acquired $740 million in distressed real-estate assets from three large financial institutions, in what the home builder said is the first major private-sector purchase of such loans.”
The Wall Street Journal: Lennar Acquires Distressed Real-Estate Assets
“Only luxury builder Toll Brothers has come close to mimicking Lennar's strategy: Earlier this year, Toll joined forces with private-equity firm Oaktree Capital Management LP and others to snap up $1.7 billion in distressed loans once held by AmTrust Bank.”
The Wall Street Journal: Lennar Acquires Distressed Real-Estate Assets
“Its separately managed account with Cleveland-based Townsend will primarily focus on snapping up stakes in distressed private-equity real-estate funds and recapitalizing the funds.”
The Wall Street Journal: Korean Pension Fund Plans $400 Million in Investments
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘distressed’.
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Weftage
The many textures of touch.
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
wrath, leaf, belly, prey, death, break, six, nod, dim, end, inn, judge and 1286 more...
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Vocabulary Words 2.
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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fifi
verbs Adj Adv noun
indulge, convene, solve, dissolve, prospect, prospective, allege, resolve, accountable, administration, amid, agenda and 407 more...
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Miss Sunshine
she's such a joy.
bereaved, bitter, cheerless, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, downcast and 405 more...
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classic695's Words
delighted, elated, energetic, excited, enthusiastic, elevated, happy, contented, fine, pleased, satisfied, compassionate and 168 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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me + student loans =
You know that feeling when you open your wallet and all you can find inside are ATM receipts?
When being a squatter is the least of your worries and that thing called dignity is shove...destitution, beggary, impecuniosity, indigence, mendicancy, poor, impoverishment, pauperism, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, poverty and 168 more...
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mood
doldrums, disenchanted, derisive, dour, knackered, vex, peevish, grumpy, spurious, fractious, acrimonious, cross and 28 more...
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The eyes have it
descriptive eye words
animated, bright-eyed, comprehending, penetrating, unflinching, flinty, intense, fleeting, sly, glowering, dazed, incredulous and 36 more...
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My Blue Jeans
denim, blue, jeans, vintage, rigid, used, levi's, stonewash, low-rise, hip-huggers, flare, bell-bottoms and 15 more...
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April27.DM.
distress, distressed, naive, live up to, expectations, loopholes, peril, sass, reckless, pride, gullible, mewl and 1 more...
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d is for depressing!
dolorous, damaging, depressing, drab, dull, dumb, derelict, decaying, dubious, doubtful, dreadful, dangerous and 86 more...
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disconsolacy / affliction / plaintive
mournful, despondence, lugubriosity, malaise, dismissed, forlorn, visitation, woeful, crushed, dejection, abasement, guilt and 18 more...
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