"distressful" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From distress + -ful.",
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      "form": "more distressful",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "word": "distressfully"
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          "ref": "1764 December 19 (indicated as 1765), Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or A Prospect of Society. A Poem. […], London: […] J[ohn] Newbery, […], →OCLC, page 21:",
          "text": "There, vvhile above the giddy tempeſt flies, / And all around diſtreſsful yells ariſe, / The penſive exile, bending vvith his vvoe, / To ſtop too fearful, and too faint to go.",
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          "ref": "1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, On the Death of John Adams, pages 191-192:",
          "text": "Once more, that fulness of prophetic joy, / With which this unborn Jubilee he mark'd / Through the long vista of distressful years, / While the dark war-clouds gathering at his feet / Involved the scene.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1905, “I Don't Care”, Jean Lenox (lyrics), Harry O. Sutton (music), performed by Eva Tanguay:",
          "text": "If I'm never successful, / It won't be distressful, / 'Cos I don't care.",
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        "Causing or feeling distress, anxiety, or strain; distressing."
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          "Causing",
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          "feeling",
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        [
          "distress",
          "distress#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "anxiety",
          "anxiety"
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        [
          "strain",
          "strain#Noun"
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        [
          "distressing",
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          "word": "distressfull"
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  "word": "distressful"
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      "word": "distressfully"
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      "word": "distressfulness"
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  "etymology_text": "From distress + -ful.",
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          "ref": "1764 December 19 (indicated as 1765), Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or A Prospect of Society. A Poem. […], London: […] J[ohn] Newbery, […], →OCLC, page 21:",
          "text": "There, vvhile above the giddy tempeſt flies, / And all around diſtreſsful yells ariſe, / The penſive exile, bending vvith his vvoe, / To ſtop too fearful, and too faint to go.",
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          "ref": "1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, On the Death of John Adams, pages 191-192:",
          "text": "Once more, that fulness of prophetic joy, / With which this unborn Jubilee he mark'd / Through the long vista of distressful years, / While the dark war-clouds gathering at his feet / Involved the scene.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1905, “I Don't Care”, Jean Lenox (lyrics), Harry O. Sutton (music), performed by Eva Tanguay:",
          "text": "If I'm never successful, / It won't be distressful, / 'Cos I don't care.",
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        "Causing or feeling distress, anxiety, or strain; distressing."
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      "word": "distressfull"
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  "word": "distressful"
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