'Stressful' definitions:
Definition of 'stressful'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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, stressful, trying]
Definition of 'Stressful'
From: GCIDE
- Stressful \Stress"ful\, a. Having much stress. --Rush. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stressful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adverse,
- antagonistic,
- conflicting,
- contrary,
- counter,
- counteractive,
- detrimental,
- difficult,
- draining,
- exhausting,
- fatiguesome,
- fatiguing,
- grueling,
- hard,
- harmful,
- hostile,
- in opposition,
- inimical,
- killing,
- miserable,
- not easy,
- opposed,
- opposing,
- opposite,
- punishing,
- rigorous,
- sinister,
- straining,
- tiresome,
- tiring,
- toilsome,
- troublesome,
- troublous,
- trying,
- unfavorable,
- untoward,
- weariful,
- wearing,
- wearisome,
- wearying,
- wretched
Words containing 'Stressful'
- Stress,
- stressed,
- 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