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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.

 

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