distressed
/dɪˈstɹɛst/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Offered for sale after foreclosure.
adj
Faded or abused in order to appear old, or antique.
adj
Experiencing financial or operational distress, default, or bankruptcy.
verb
simple past and past participle of distress
Example Sentences
- "She is distressed because she can't find her keys."
- "Oh that thou wer't not, poore distreſſed ſoule."
- "Wee are troubled on euery side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despaire,"
- "Now, I saw, upon a time, when he was walking in the fields, that he was, as he was wont, reading in his book, and greatly distressed in his mind; and, as he read, he burst out, as he had done before, crying, "What shall I do to be saved?""
- "Distressed jeans bear all the signs of exertion, while the consumer never has to lift a finger. What could be more luxurious than that?"
- "Lawyers for Hirst accepted that his works had on occasion “been made to look older or distressed”."
Inflected Forms
more distressed (comparative)
most distressed (superlative)