wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred; "a gossipy malevolent old woman"; "failure made him malevolent toward those who were successful"
experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13
the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim; "Originally distress was a landlord's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage but now the landlord is given a landlord's lien"
psychological suffering; "the death of his wife caused him great distress"
extreme physical pain; "the patient appeared to be in distress"
a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need); "a ship in distress"; "she was the classic maiden in distress"
cause mental pain to; "The news of her child's illness distressed the mother"
sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms
the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
the relative importance granted to something; "his opinion carries great weight"; "the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed"
an oppressive feeling of heavy force; "bowed down by the weight of responsibility"
(statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance