more significant
adjective. important, critical
newsworthy
adjective. important
perturbing
adjective. disturbing
- aggravating
- agitating
- alarming
- annoying
- bothersome
- burdensome
- consequential
- creepy
- depressing
- difficult
- disagreeable
- discomforting
- discommoding
- discomposing
- disconcerting
- discouraging
- dismaying
- disquieting
- disruptive
- distressful
- distressing
- embarrassing
- foreboding
- frightening
- gloomy
- harassing
- hard
- impeding
- inconvenient
- intrusive
- irksome
- irritating
- laborious
- ominous
- onerous
- painful
- perplexing
- pessimistic
- prophetic
- provoking
- severe
- sinister
- startling
- threatening
- tiresome
- toilsome
- troublesome
- troubling
- troublous
- trying
- uncertain
- unpleasant
- unsettling
- upsetting
- vexing
- wearisome
- worrisome
- worrying
secondary
adjective. subordinate; less important
severe
adjective. difficult, harsh
- acute
- arduous
- ascetic
- austere
- bitter
- bleak
- consequential
- critical
- dangerous
- dear
- demanding
- despotic
- distressing
- domineering
- drastic
- effortful
- exacting
- extreme
- fierce
- forbidding
- grave
- grim
- grinding
- hard
- heavy
- hefty
- implacable
- inclement
- intemperate
- intense
- mordant
- oppressive
- overbearing
- pitiless
- punishing
- rigorous
- rugged
- serious
- sharp
- sore
- strenuous
- stringent
- taxing
- toilsome
- tough
- tyrannical
- unpleasant
- unrelenting
- violent
- weighty
- wicked
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