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Troubled vs Distressed - What's the difference?

troubled | distressed | Related terms |

Troubled is a related term of distressed.


As adjectives the difference between troubled and distressed

is that troubled is anxious, worried, careworn while distressed is anxious or uneasy.

As verbs the difference between troubled and distressed

is that troubled is (trouble) while distressed is (distress).

troubled

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Anxious, worried, careworn.
  • *
  • *:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (trouble)

    • distressed

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • anxious or uneasy
    • I'm distressed that John hasn't answered my calls. I hope nothing bad happened to him on the way here.
  • (of merchandise etc) damaged
  • (of a property) offered for sale after foreclosure
  • (of furniture etc) faded or abused in order to appear old, or antique

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (distress)