distress

aggravated; worse, unrelieved; aggravable; aggravating v.

alarming

careful, regardful, heedful; taking care; particular; prudent (cautious); considerate; thoughtful (deliberative); provident (prepared); alert (active); sure-footed., guarded, on one's guard; on the qui vivre, on the alert, on watch, on the lookout; awake, broad awake, vigilant; watchful, wakeful, wistful; Argus-eyed; wide awake (intelligent); on the watch for (expectant)., tidy (orderly), (clean) [more]; accurate (exact); scrupulous (conscientious); cavendo tutus (safe).

depressed; at a low ebb; prostrate (horizontal); detrusive.

difficult, not easy, hard, tough; troublesome, toilsome, irksome; operose, laborious, onerous, arduous, Herculean, formidable; sooner said than done; more easily said than done., difficult to deal with, hard to deal with; ill-conditioned, crabbed; not to be handled with kid gloves, not made with rose water., awkward, unwieldy, unmanageable; intractable, stubborn (obstinate); perverse, refractory, plaguy, trying, thorny, rugged; knotted, knotty; invious; pathless, trackless; labyrinthine (convoluted); intricate, complicated (tangled); impracticable (impossible); not feasible; desperate (hopeless)., embarrassing, perplexing (uncertain); delicate, ticklish, critical; beset with difficulties, full of difficulties, surrounded by difficulties, entangled by difficulties, encompassed with difficulties.

disappointed; disconcerted, aghast; disgruntled; out of one's reckoning.

fearing; frightened; in fear, in a fright; haunted with the fear of; afeard., afraid, fearful; timid, timorous; nervous, diffident, coy, faint-hearted, tremulous, shaky, afraid of one's shadow, apprehensive, restless, fidgety; more frightened than hurt., aghast; awe-stricken, horror-stricken, terror-stricken, panic- stricken, awestruck, awe-stricken, horror-strruck; frightened to death, white as a sheet; pale, pale as a ghost, pale as death, pale as ashes; breathless, in hysterics., inspiring fear; alarming; formidable, redoubtable; perilous (danger); portentous; fearful; dread, dreadful; fell; dire, direful; shocking; terrible, terrific; tremendous; horrid, horrible, horrific; ghastly; awful, awe-inspiring; revolting (painful); Gorgonian.

in pain, in a state of pain, full of pain; suffering; pained, afflicted, worried, displeased; aching, griped, sore (physical pain) [more]; on the rack, in limbo; between hawk and buzzard., uncomfortable, uneasy; ill at ease; in a taking, in a way; disturbed; discontented; out of humor; weary., heavy laden, stricken, crushed, a prey to, victimized, ill-used.