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stressful
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Word definitions for stressful in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1846, from stress (n.) + -ful . Related: Stressfully ; stressfulness .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. extremely irritating to the nerves; "nerve-racking noise"; "the stressful days before a war"; "a trying day at the office" [syn: nerve-racking , nerve-wracking , trying ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Irritating; causing stress.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stressful \Stress"ful\, a. Having much stress. --Rush.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a stressful lifestyle ▪ A stressful lifestyle may lead to a number of medical problems. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB less ▪ Pond remedies are invariably less stressful to fish, as they do not have to be netted ...
Usage examples of stressful.
Furthermore, experienced meditators became just as physiologically aroused in stressful situations as did nonmeditators.
Tara had met Eric in Bon Temps, but their introduction had been on a very stressful night.
After an encounter with Gwen, many waitpersons have opted for less stressful careers, choosing to retrain themselves as air traffic controllers or dental-drill testers.
The animosity that simmered between Raven and Sevilen, as well as that between Rurick and Kalina, had to be stressful for the Enhancers.
Preparation for a stressful medical procedure: Effect of amount of stimulus preexposure and coping style.
Another of her unspoken but stressful things involves issues of enclosure, and the HmH has no interior doors between rooms, and not even much in the way of walls, and the living and dining rooms are separated only by a vast multileveled tangle of house-plants in pots and on little stools of different heights and arrayed under hanging UV lamps of an intensity that tends to give the diners strange little patterns of tan that differ according to where someone usually sits at the table.
A supportive, nonevaluative friend lowers our blood pressure during stressful tasks.
Therefore, running the business of these portals is stressful to her and a burden to the court.
The whole attention business was monstrously stressful, video callers found.
Conversely, being the breadwinner may be very hard but it is less stressful than being a spouse who needs to be a breadwinner but can't get a job.
Even then, concentrating on that tiny speck millions of kilometres away was inordinately stressful.
Hal finds himself riveted at something about the degenerating game that seems so terribly abstract and fraught with implications and consequences that even thinking about how to articulate it seems so complexly stressful that being almost incapacitated with absorption is almost the only way out of the complex stress.
What memories did the traeki High Sage purposely destroy, during those stressful moments before Asx was converted?
Tower Control was not as stressful a job as that of the actual air traffic controllers sitting in a win-dowless radar room below him, but this was a close second.
They oscillate about ten times per second (the range is eight to 13 cycles per second) and are less common in our modern stressful lives.