adj
Freq #143652
Meanings
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adj
Causing or feeling distress, anxiety, or strain; distressing.
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.
Etymology
From distress + -ful.