distressing
adj/dɪˈstɹɛsɪŋ/
1
Causing distress; upsetting; distressful.
- The details of the ordeal can be distressing to some readers.
- One end of the east-west building is wet, the other windy, and at present there is smoke abounding, too; but these distressing yard elements can be completely excluded at each end by full-width folding doors [...].1960 December, “New G.E. Line diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 766:
- Derived terms
- distressingly, distressingness, undistressing