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11 entries under distressing topic. ×
| sad(adjective, tender, gloomy, miserable) | |
| poignant(adjective, moving, tender, stirring) | |
| moving(adjective, tender, stirring, upsetting) | |
| touching(adjective, moving, tender, stirring) | |
| affecting(adjective, moving, tender, stirring) | |
| upsetting(adjective, awful, terrible, shocking, dreadful) | |
| afflictive(miserable, wretched, upsetting, anguished) | |
| calamitous(awful, terrible, miserable, wretched, dreadful) | |
| regrettable(adjective, miserable, wretched, upsetting) | |
| heartrending(moving, tender, stirring, upsetting) | |
| joyless(gloomy, upsetting, tragic, plaintive) |
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