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.
Related words: (words related to DISTRESSFUL)
- 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.