distressful

adj

1. Causing or feeling distress, anxiety, or strain; distressing.

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “If I'm never successful, / It won't be distressful, / 'Cos I don't care.”