'stressed' definitions:
Definition of 'stressed'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Suffering severe physical strain or distress; "he dropped out of the race, clearly distressed and having difficulty breathing" [syn: stressed, distressed]
adjective
Bearing a stress or accent; "an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in `delay'" [syn: stressed, accented] [ant: unstressed]
Synonyms of 'stressed'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accented,
- accentuated,
- alveolar,
- apical,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulated,
- assimilated,
- back,
- barytone,
- bilabial,
- broad,
- cacuminal,
- central,
- cerebral,
- checked,
- close,
- consonant,
- consonantal,
- continuant,
- decided,
- dental,
- dissimilated,
- dorsal,
- emphasized,
- emphatic,
- flat,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- front,
- glide,
- glossal,
- glottal,
- guttural,
- hard,
- heavy,
- high,
- in red letters,
- intonated,
- italicized,
- labial,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- lateral,
- lax,
- light,
- lingual,
- liquid,
- low,
- mid,
- monophthongal,
- muted,
- narrow,
- nasal,
- nasalized,
- occlusive,
- open,
- oxytone,
- palatal,
- palatalized,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealized,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonic,
- pitch,
- pitched,
- pointed,
- positive,
- posttonic,
- punctuated,
- retroflex,
- rounded,
- semivowel,
- soft,
- sonant,
- starred,
- stopped,
- strong,
- surd,
- syllabic,
- tense,
- thick,
- throaty,
- tonal,
- tonic,
- twangy,
- unaccented,
- underlined,
- underscored,
- unrounded,
- unstressed,
- velar,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voiced,
- voiceless,
- vowel,
- vowellike,
- weak,
- wide
Words containing 'stressed'
- Stress,
- Stressful,
- Radical stress,
- Stress of voice,
- Stress of weather,
- Tangential stress,
- To put to a stress,
- Unit stress,
- Vanishing stress,
- sentence stress,
- shearing stress,
- stress fracture,
- stress incontinence,
- stress mark,
- stress test,
- word stress,
- To lay stress upon,
- To put stress upon,
- posttraumatic stress disorder,
- Storm-and-stress period,
- nerve-racking nerve-wracking stressful trying