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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stressful
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 out individually.
▪ How could a longer ride be less stressful than a shorter one?
▪ I deduce a mental breakdown, remedial retirement and a less stressful job among the daffodils.
▪ If they can do so before conception, the period of pregnancy will be much less stressful.
more
▪ Social services stormed in Hollywood-style and made the whole incident 20 times more stressful than it had to be.
▪ At this time the father, however, was in a more stressful situation at work.
▪ Women have been conditioned to believe that men's work is harder and more stressful than theirs, which is a con.
▪ For others, issues of separation from parents make the longer day seem even more stressful.
▪ The situation is made more stressful for workers by being given impossibly high targets as an attempt to increase motivation.
very
▪ It starts with, who do I call, and becomes very complex and very stressful.
▪ The emptiness can be devastating and very stressful.
▪ It has been a very stressful period for anybody trying to launch a mine.
▪ Female speaker Students coming to Oxford and Cambridge find it very stressful.
▪ If all goes smoothly, we can get the drug in about two weeks, but life becomes very stressful.
▪ It can be very stressful, especially as we are so short staffed.
▪ It was a very stressful incident.
■ NOUN
event
▪ Relapse of florid symptoms and possibly their first onset can be precipitated by stressful events.
▪ Social scientists have devised a check-list of stressful events, weighted according to how serious they are.
▪ Among the discoveries made in psychoneuroimmunology is that stressful events can make the immune cells far less responsive to infection.
situation
▪ Identifying stressful situations Your child or teenager may find the following method helpful.
▪ At this time the father, however, was in a more stressful situation at work.
▪ Perhaps worst of all, there are those stressful situations where one is accustomed to turn to tobacco for support.
▪ Hotel managers must be able to get along with all kinds of people, even in stressful situations.
▪ Corals and anemones are sensitive creatures and react to any stressful situation by closing down to avoid the cause of their stress.
▪ Researchers have found that people rely upon their experience to help them understand and cope with new or stressful situations.
▪ This may be a very nice judgment to make in a stressful situation. 2.
▪ In fact, some people even manage to thrive in potentially stressful situations.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It was a stressful time for the whole family.
▪ Keeping the whole thing a secret is obviously very stressful for her.
▪ Looking after small children can be very stressful.
▪ What's the most stressful aspect of your job?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For many people a confrontation may be too stressful and uncomfortable.
▪ Hotel managers must be able to get along with all kinds of people, even in stressful situations.
▪ It starts with, who do I call, and becomes very complex and very stressful.
▪ Often they result from particularly stressful circumstances but they may simply be a moment of carelessness.
▪ Relationships grow stressful when managers and subordinates bump elbows, so to speak within the same frame of reference.
▪ Representatives from out-patient teams played a more active part in stressful daily decisions about child care management.
▪ Together with Feeley and Lleland-Clanahan arrived shortly-we watched the events of that stressful day unfold on television.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stressful

Stressful \Stress"ful\, a. Having much stress.
--Rush.

Related phrases:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stressful

1846, from stress (n.) + -ful. Related: Stressfully; stressfulness.

Wiktionary
stressful

a. Irritating; causing stress.

WordNet
stressful

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]

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.