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dis-tresses
noun as in injury
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in lack
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in malaise
noun as in martyrdom
Strongest match
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in matter
Strongest match
noun as in misery
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in need
noun as in ordeal
noun as in pain
noun as in pain
noun as in pang
noun as in passion
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in penitence
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in pity
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in poverty
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in pressure
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in bad news
noun as in sadness
Strong matches
noun as in scrape
noun as in shock
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in sorrow
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in strait
noun as in suffering
Strong matches
noun as in tear/tears
noun as in torture
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in trial
Strongest match
Strong matches
- adversity
- affliction
- albatross
- anguish
- annoyance
- bane
- blow
- bother
- burden
- calvary
- care
- complication
- crucible
- difficulty
- distress
- drag
- grief
- hardship
- hassle
- heartbreak
- inconvenience
- irritation
- load
- misery
- misfortune
- nightmare
- nuisance
- pain
- pest
- plague
- rigor
- sorrow
- suffering
- thorn
- tribulation
- unhappiness
- vexation
- vicissitude
- visitation
- woe
- wretchedness
noun as in tribulation
Strong matches
noun as in trouble
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in turmoil
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in unrest
Strongest matches
noun as in upset
noun as in bereavement
Strongest match
Strong matches
noun as in woe
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in worry
noun as in wound
noun as in annoyance
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in bitterness
Weak matches
noun as in exigency
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in bother
Strongest match
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in visitation
noun as in worst
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in wretchedness
noun as in cabin fever
noun as in calamity
noun as in care
Strongest matches
noun as in privateer
noun as in travail
noun as in unhappiness
noun as in abashment
noun as in anxiousness
noun as in concernment
noun as in fearfulness
noun as in glumness
noun as in heavy-heartedness
noun as in impecuniosity
Weak matches
- abjection
- aridity
- bankruptcy
- barrenness
- beggary
- dearth
- debt
- deficiency
- deficit
- depletion
- destitution
- difficulty
- distress
- emptiness
- exiguity
- famine
- hardship
- impecuniousness
- impoverishment
- inadequacy
- indigence
- insolvency
- insufficiency
- lack
- meagerness
- necessitousness
- necessity
- need
- neediness
- pass
- paucity
- pauperism
- pennilessness
- penuriousness
- penury
- pinch
- poorness
- privation
- reduction
- scarcity
- shortage
- starvation
- straits
- underdevelopment
- vacancy
- want
noun as in impecuniousness
Strong matches
- abjection
- aridity
- bankruptcy
- barrenness
- beggary
- dearth
- debt
- deficiency
- deficit
- depletion
- destitution
- difficulty
- distress
- emptiness
- exiguity
- famine
- hardship
- impoverishment
- inadequacy
- indigence
- insolvency
- insufficiency
- lack
- meagerness
- necessity
- need
- neediness
- pass
- paucity
- pauperism
- pennilessness
- penuriousness
- penury
- pinch
- poorness
- privation
- reduction
- scarcity
- shortage
- starvation
- straits
- underdevelopment
- vacancy
- want
Weak matches
noun as in impoverishment
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in interestedness
noun as in mournfulness
Strong matches
- anguish
- bitterness
- blues
- catatonia
- chagrin
- cheerlessness
- dejection
- depression
- desolation
- despair
- despondence
- despondency
- disconsolateness
- discouragement
- distress
- doldrums
- dolefulness
- dolor
- downheartedness
- dullness
- dumps
- dysphoria
- foreboding
- funk
- glumness
- grief
- heaviness
- horror
- malaise
- melancholy
- misery
- misgiving
- mope
- mopes
- morbidity
- mourning
- oppression
- pensiveness
- pessimism
- sadness
- sorrow
- unhappiness
- vexation
- weariness
- woe
noun as in neediness
Strong matches
- abjection
- aridity
- bankruptcy
- barrenness
- beggary
- dearth
- debt
- deficiency
- deficit
- depletion
- destitution
- difficulty
- distress
- emptiness
- exiguity
- famine
- hardship
- impecuniousness
- impoverishment
- inadequacy
- indigence
- insolvency
- insufficiency
- lack
- meagerness
- necessity
- need
- pass
- paucity
- pauperism
- pennilessness
- penuriousness
- penury
- pinch
- poorness
- privation
- reduction
- scarcity
- shortage
- starvation
- straits
- underdevelopment
- vacancy
- want
Weak matches
noun as in penitency
noun as in pennilessness
Strong matches
- abjection
- aridity
- bankruptcy
- barrenness
- beggary
- dearth
- debt
- deficiency
- deficit
- depletion
- destitution
- difficulty
- distress
- emptiness
- exiguity
- famine
- hardship
- impecuniousness
- impoverishment
- inadequacy
- indigence
- insolvency
- insufficiency
- lack
- meagerness
- necessity
- need
- neediness
- pass
- paucity
- pauperism
- penuriousness
- penury
- pinch
- poorness
- privation
- reduction
- scarcity
- shortage
- starvation
- straits
- underdevelopment
- vacancy
- want
Weak matches
noun as in penuriousness
Strong matches
- abjection
- aridity
- bankruptcy
- barrenness
- beggary
- dearth
- debt
- deficiency
- deficit
- depletion
- destitution
- difficulty
- distress
- emptiness
- exiguity
- famine
- hardship
- impecuniousness
- impoverishment
- inadequacy
- indigence
- insolvency
- insufficiency
- lack
- meagerness
- necessity
- need
- neediness
- pass
- paucity
- pauperism
- pennilessness
- penury
- pinch
- poorness
- privation
- reduction
- scarcity
- shortage
- starvation
- straits
- underdevelopment
- vacancy
- want
Weak matches
noun as in pestering
noun as in remorsefulness
noun as in soreness
noun as in unease
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in concern
noun as in corner
Weak match
noun as in adversity
Strongest matches
noun as in affliction
noun as in depression
Strong matches
- abasement
- abjection
- blahs
- bleakness
- bummer
- cheerlessness
- dejection
- desolation
- desperation
- despondency
- discouragement
- dispiritedness
- distress
- dole
- dolefulness
- dolor
- downheartedness
- dreariness
- dullness
- dumps
- ennui
- gloom
- gloominess
- heavyheartedness
- hopelessness
- lowness
- melancholia
- melancholy
- misery
- mortification
- qualm
- sadness
- sorrow
- trouble
- unhappiness
- vapors
- woefulness
- worry
noun as in deprivation
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in desperation
noun as in aggravation
Strongest match
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in difficulty
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in difficulty
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in disappointment
Strongest matches
noun as in agony
noun as in discomfort
noun as in disquiet
noun as in dissatisfaction
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in distress
Strong matches
- ache
- affliction
- anguish
- anxiety
- blues
- care
- concern
- cross
- dejection
- desolation
- disappointment
- discomfort
- disquietude
- dolor
- embarrassment
- grief
- headache
- heartache
- heartbreak
- irritation
- malaise
- misery
- mortification
- ordeal
- pang
- perplexity
- sadness
- shame
- sorrow
- stew
- suffering
- throe
- torment
- torture
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- twinge
- unhappiness
- vexation
- visitation
- woe
- worriment
- worry
- wretchedness
Weak matches
noun as in distress
Strong matches
noun as in dolor
noun as in alarm
Strongest matches
Weak match
noun as in embarrassment
Strong matches
noun as in emergency
noun as in exigency/exigence
Weak matches
- acuteness
- constraint
- contingency
- crisis
- criticalness
- crossroad
- demandingness
- dilemma
- distress
- duress
- emergency
- extremity
- fix
- hardship
- imperativeness
- jam
- juncture
- necessity
- need
- needfulness
- pass
- pickle
- pinch
- plight
- predicament
- pressingness
- pressure
- quandary
- requirement
- scrape
- stress
- turning point
- urgency
- vicissitude
- want
- wont
- zero hour
noun as in fear
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in anguish
noun as in gloom
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in grief
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in grievance
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in gripe
noun as in anxiety
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in hardship
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in heartache
Weak matches
noun as in heartbreak
Weak matches
noun as in hurt
verb as in injure
Strong matches
verb as in offend
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
verb as in oppress
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in pain
Strong matches
Weak matches
verb as in persecute
verb as in pinch
verb as in prey on
verb as in rack
verb as in sadden
verb as in shake
verb as in strain
verb as in tire
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in torment
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in torture
verb as in trouble
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in try
verb as in upset
Strong matches
verb as in weary
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in worry
Strong matches
verb as in wound
verb as in bother
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
verb as in excruciate
verb as in traumatize
verb as in concern
verb as in afflict
verb as in depress
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in disagree
verb as in agonize
verb as in discomfort
verb as in discourage
verb as in dismay
Strongest matches
verb as in disquiet
verb as in distress
Strong matches
verb as in disturb
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
verb as in alarm
verb as in embarrass
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in exercise
verb as in fret
verb as in annoy
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in gnaw
verb as in harass
Strong matches
verb as in hurt
Strong matches
noun as in injury
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in lack
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in malaise
noun as in martyrdom
Strongest match
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in matter
Strongest match
noun as in misery
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in need
noun as in ordeal
noun as in pain
noun as in pain
noun as in pang
noun as in passion
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in penitence
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in pity
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in poverty
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in pressure
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in bad news
noun as in sadness
Strong matches
noun as in scrape
noun as in shock
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in sorrow
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in strait
noun as in suffering
Strong matches
noun as in tear/tears
noun as in torture
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in trial
Strongest match
Strong matches
- adversity
- affliction
- albatross
- anguish
- annoyance
- bane
- blow
- bother
- burden
- calvary
- care
- complication
- crucible
- difficulty
- distress
- drag
- grief
- hardship
- hassle
- heartbreak
- inconvenience
- irritation
- load
- misery
- misfortune
- nightmare
- nuisance
- pain
- pest
- plague
- rigor
- sorrow
- suffering
- thorn
- tribulation
- unhappiness
- vexation
- vicissitude
- visitation
- woe
- wretchedness
noun as in tribulation
Strong matches
noun as in trouble
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in turmoil
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in unrest
Strongest matches
noun as in upset
noun as in bereavement
Strongest match
Strong matches
noun as in woe
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in worry
noun as in wound
noun as in annoyance
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in bitterness
Weak matches
noun as in exigency
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in bother
Strongest match
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in visitation
noun as in worst
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in wretchedness
noun as in cabin fever
noun as in calamity
noun as in care
Strongest matches
noun as in privateer
noun as in travail
noun as in unhappiness
noun as in abashment
noun as in anxiousness
noun as in concernment
noun as in fearfulness
noun as in glumness
noun as in heavy-heartedness
noun as in impecuniosity
Weak matches
- abjection
- aridity
- bankruptcy
- barrenness
- beggary
- dearth
- debt
- deficiency
- deficit
- depletion
- destitution
- difficulty
- distress
- emptiness
- exiguity
- famine
- hardship
- impecuniousness
- impoverishment
- inadequacy
- indigence
- insolvency
- insufficiency
- lack
- meagerness
- necessitousness
- necessity
- need
- neediness
- pass
- paucity
- pauperism
- pennilessness
- penuriousness
- penury
- pinch
- poorness
- privation
- reduction
- scarcity
- shortage
- starvation
- straits
- underdevelopment
- vacancy
- want
noun as in impecuniousness
Strong matches
- abjection
- aridity
- bankruptcy
- barrenness
- beggary
- dearth
- debt
- deficiency
- deficit
- depletion
- destitution
- difficulty
- distress
- emptiness
- exiguity
- famine
- hardship
- impoverishment
- inadequacy
- indigence
- insolvency
- insufficiency
- lack
- meagerness
- necessity
- need
- neediness
- pass
- paucity
- pauperism
- pennilessness
- penuriousness
- penury
- pinch
- poorness
- privation
- reduction
- scarcity
- shortage
- starvation
- straits
- underdevelopment
- vacancy
- want
Weak matches
noun as in impoverishment
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in interestedness
noun as in mournfulness
Strong matches
- anguish
- bitterness
- blues
- catatonia
- chagrin
- cheerlessness
- dejection
- depression
- desolation
- despair
- despondence
- despondency
- disconsolateness
- discouragement
- distress
- doldrums
- dolefulness
- dolor
- downheartedness
- dullness
- dumps
- dysphoria
- foreboding
- funk
- glumness
- grief
- heaviness
- horror
- malaise
- melancholy
- misery
- misgiving
- mope
- mopes
- morbidity
- mourning
- oppression
- pensiveness
- pessimism
- sadness
- sorrow
- unhappiness
- vexation
- weariness
- woe
noun as in neediness
Strong matches
- abjection
- aridity
- bankruptcy
- barrenness
- beggary
- dearth
- debt
- deficiency
- deficit
- depletion
- destitution
- difficulty
- distress
- emptiness
- exiguity
- famine
- hardship
- impecuniousness
- impoverishment
- inadequacy
- indigence
- insolvency
- insufficiency
- lack
- meagerness
- necessity
- need
- pass
- paucity
- pauperism
- pennilessness
- penuriousness
- penury
- pinch
- poorness
- privation
- reduction
- scarcity
- shortage
- starvation
- straits
- underdevelopment
- vacancy
- want
Weak matches
noun as in penitency
noun as in pennilessness
Strong matches
- abjection
- aridity
- bankruptcy
- barrenness
- beggary
- dearth
- debt
- deficiency
- deficit
- depletion
- destitution
- difficulty
- distress
- emptiness
- exiguity
- famine
- hardship
- impecuniousness
- impoverishment
- inadequacy
- indigence
- insolvency
- insufficiency
- lack
- meagerness
- necessity
- need
- neediness
- pass
- paucity
- pauperism
- penuriousness
- penury
- pinch
- poorness
- privation
- reduction
- scarcity
- shortage
- starvation
- straits
- underdevelopment
- vacancy
- want
Weak matches
noun as in penuriousness
Strong matches
- abjection
- aridity
- bankruptcy
- barrenness
- beggary
- dearth
- debt
- deficiency
- deficit
- depletion
- destitution
- difficulty
- distress
- emptiness
- exiguity
- famine
- hardship
- impecuniousness
- impoverishment
- inadequacy
- indigence
- insolvency
- insufficiency
- lack
- meagerness
- necessity
- need
- neediness
- pass
- paucity
- pauperism
- pennilessness
- penury
- pinch
- poorness
- privation
- reduction
- scarcity
- shortage
- starvation
- straits
- underdevelopment
- vacancy
- want
Weak matches
noun as in pestering
noun as in remorsefulness
noun as in soreness
noun as in unease
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in concern
noun as in corner
Weak match
noun as in adversity
Strongest matches
noun as in affliction
noun as in depression
Strong matches
- abasement
- abjection
- blahs
- bleakness
- bummer
- cheerlessness
- dejection
- desolation
- desperation
- despondency
- discouragement
- dispiritedness
- distress
- dole
- dolefulness
- dolor
- downheartedness
- dreariness
- dullness
- dumps
- ennui
- gloom
- gloominess
- heavyheartedness
- hopelessness
- lowness
- melancholia
- melancholy
- misery
- mortification
- qualm
- sadness
- sorrow
- trouble
- unhappiness
- vapors
- woefulness
- worry
noun as in deprivation
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in desperation
noun as in aggravation
Strongest match
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in difficulty
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in difficulty
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in disappointment
Strongest matches
noun as in agony
noun as in discomfort
noun as in disquiet
noun as in dissatisfaction
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in distress
Strong matches
- ache
- affliction
- anguish
- anxiety
- blues
- care
- concern
- cross
- dejection
- desolation
- disappointment
- discomfort
- disquietude
- dolor
- embarrassment
- grief
- headache
- heartache
- heartbreak
- irritation
- malaise
- misery
- mortification
- ordeal
- pang
- perplexity
- sadness
- shame
- sorrow
- stew
- suffering
- throe
- torment
- torture
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- twinge
- unhappiness
- vexation
- visitation
- woe
- worriment
- worry
- wretchedness
Weak matches
noun as in distress
Strong matches
noun as in dolor
noun as in alarm
Strongest matches
Weak match
noun as in embarrassment
Strong matches
noun as in emergency
noun as in exigency/exigence
Weak matches
- acuteness
- constraint
- contingency
- crisis
- criticalness
- crossroad
- demandingness
- dilemma
- distress
- duress
- emergency
- extremity
- fix
- hardship
- imperativeness
- jam
- juncture
- necessity
- need
- needfulness
- pass
- pickle
- pinch
- plight
- predicament
- pressingness
- pressure
- quandary
- requirement
- scrape
- stress
- turning point
- urgency
- vicissitude
- want
- wont
- zero hour
noun as in fear
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in anguish
noun as in gloom
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in grief
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in grievance
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in gripe
noun as in anxiety
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in hardship
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in heartache
Weak matches
noun as in heartbreak
Weak matches
noun as in hurt
verb as in injure
Strong matches
verb as in offend
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
verb as in oppress
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in pain
Strong matches
Weak matches
verb as in persecute
verb as in pinch
verb as in prey on
verb as in rack
verb as in sadden
verb as in shake
verb as in strain
verb as in tire
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in torment
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in torture
verb as in trouble
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in try
verb as in upset
Strong matches
verb as in weary
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in worry
Strong matches
verb as in wound
verb as in bother
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
verb as in excruciate
verb as in traumatize
verb as in concern
verb as in afflict
verb as in depress
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in disagree
verb as in agonize
verb as in discomfort
verb as in discourage
verb as in dismay
Strongest matches
verb as in disquiet
verb as in distress
Strong matches
verb as in disturb
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
verb as in alarm
verb as in embarrass
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in exercise
verb as in fret
verb as in annoy
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in gnaw
verb as in harass
Strong matches
verb as in hurt
Strong matches
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On this page you'll find 6498 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dis-tresses, such as: abuse, bruise, burn, cramp, cut, and damage.
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