distressful

Etymology

From distress + -ful.

adj

  1. Causing or feeling distress, anxiety, or strain; distressing.
    Once more, that fulness of prophetic joy, With which this unborn Jubilee he mark'd Through the long vista of distressful years, While the dark war-clouds gathering at his feet Involved the scene. 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, On the Death of John Adams, page 191

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