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say it: di-STREST
distressed is an adjective meaning "facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty". It carries 4 recorded senses.
facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
“distressed companies need loans and technical advice”
“financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices”
“we were hard put to meet the mortgage payment”
“found themselves in a bad way financially”
generalized feeling of distress
afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
“too upset to say anything”
“spent many disquieted moments”
“distressed about her son's leaving home”
“lapsed into disturbed sleep”
“worried parents”
“a worried frown”
“one last worried check of the sleeping children”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for distressed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.