Word Meanings - DISTRESSFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Full of distress; causing, indicating, or attended with, distress; as, a distressful situation. "Some distressful stroke." Shak. "Distressful cries." Pope. -- Dis*tress"ful*ly, adv.

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• STROKER
  One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• CAUSATIVE
  1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• CAUSATOR
  One who causes. Sir T. Browne.
• TRESSEL
  A trestle.
• CAUSTICILY
  1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
• ATTENDMENT
  An attendant circumstance. The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne.
• INDICATOR
  A pressure gauge; a water gauge, as for a steam boiler; an apparatus or instrument for showing the working of a machine or moving part; as: An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at
• INDICATIVELY
  In an indicative manner; in a way to show or signify.
• TRESSURED
  Provided or bound with a tressure; arranged in the form of a tressure. The tressured fleur-de-lis he claims To wreathe his shield. Sir W. Scott.
• CAUSATIVELY
  In a causative manner.
• CAUSTICALLY
  In a caustic manner.
• CAUSATIONIST
  One who believes in the law of universal causation.
• TRESSURE
  A kind of border similar to the orle, but of only half the breadth of the latter.
• ATTEND
  L. attendre to stretch, , to apply the mind to; ad + 1. To direct the attention to; to fix the mind upon; to give heed to; to regard. The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskillful words of the passenger. Sir P. Sidney.
• STROKESMAN
  The man who rows the aftermost oar, and whose stroke is to be followed by the rest. Totten.
• ATTENDANT
  Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir. Cowell. Attendant keys , the keys or scales most nearly related to, or having most in common with, the principal key; those, namely, of its fifth above, or dominant,
• ATTENDANCE
  1. Attention; regard; careful application. Till I come, give attendance to reading. 1 Tim. iv. 13. 2. The act of attending; state of being in waiting; service; ministry; the fact of being present; presence. Constant attendance at church three times
• CAUSIDICAL
  Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits.
• ANTICAUSODIC
  See ANTICAUSOTIC
• ARBITRESS
  A female arbiter; an arbitratrix. Milton.
• BACKSTRESS
  A female baker.
• COINDICATION
  One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.
• HUCKSTRESS
  A female huckster.
• LADY'S TRACES; LADIES' TRESSES; LADIES TRESSES
  A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
• SUITRESS
  A female supplicant. Rowe.
• INSTRUCTRESS
  A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
• SUGGESTRESS
  A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
• INVENTRESS
  A woman who invents. Dryden.
• TORSION INDICATOR
  An autographic torsion meter.
• MEDIATRESS; MEDIATRIX
  A female mediator.
• CRAWL STROKE
  A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.
• PROTECTRESS; PROTECTRIX
  A woman who protects.