What is the meaning of distressing?

verb

• Bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship.
  • synonyms: straiten, distress
• Cause mental pain to.
  • usage: "The news of her child's illness distressed the mother"
  • synonyms: distress

adjective

• Causing distress or worry or anxiety.
  • usage: "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time"
  • synonyms: distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying
• Bad; unfortunate.
  • usage: "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
  • synonyms: deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry