| Main Entry: |
distress |
| Part of Speech: |
noun |
| Definition: |
hardship, adversity |
Synonyms: |
bad luck, bummer,
calamity, can of worms,
catastrophe, crunch, destitution,
difficulty,
disaster, downer,
drag*,
exigency, hard knocks, hard time, holy mess, hot water, indigence,
jam*,
misfortune,
need, pickle,
pinch*,
poverty, privation,
rigor, rotten luck,
scrape*, straits, throe, ticklish spot, tough break, tough luck,
trial,
trouble, unholy mess,
vicissitude,
want
|
Antonyms: |
advantage, benefit, miracle
|
* = informal/non-formal usage
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