English → Latin
“distressing” in Latin
peracerbusvery harsh, bitter, sour; very painfulacerbusharsh, bitter, unripe, sour, premature, not yet marriageable; sharp, severe, bitter (i.e., extremely painful); rough, vimolestustroublesome, irksome, grievous, annoying, tiresomedifficilisdifficult, hard, troublesome; obstinate, intractable, hard to please or manageacerbitāssourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit; harshness, severity; sorrow
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
distressing
peracerbus: acerbissimus (painful): molestissimus: difficilis (hard to bear; e.g., quam difficiles plerisque videntur calamitatum societates). To find one’s self in a distressing position, fortuna graviter afflictum esse: anything is distressing (= creates a distressing feeling), male afficior aliqua re: distressing events, acerbitates: it is distressing to me, hoc mihi dolet; valde dolendum est; hoc me valde conturbat: a distressing situation, res miserae; tempora misera [Vid: DISTRESS]: a distressing dream, somnium tumultuosum (☞ anxius is used sometimes in this sense by Liv., but not by Cic., anxiae curae, Liv., 1, 56): to feel a distressing fear, cruciatu timoris angi (Cic., Off., 2, 7, 25): nothing more distressing could have happened to me, or nothing could be more distressing to me, nihil acerbius or nihil ad dolorem acerbius mihi accidere potuit.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for distressing?
- The usual Latin words for “distressing” are peracerbus, acerbus, molestus; also difficilis, acerbitās. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.