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Adjective
/ˈstresfəl/,
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Causing mental or emotional stress,
  1. Causing mental or emotional stress
    • - corporate finance work can be stressful
  1. nerve-racking: extremely irritating to the nerves; "nerve-racking noise"; "the stressful days before a war"; "a trying day at the office"
  2. (stress) the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"
  3. to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"
  4. (stress) tension: (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense; "he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension"; "stress is a vasoconstrictor"
  5. put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"
  6. (stress) special emphasis attached to something; "the stress was more on accuracy than on speed"
  7. (Stress (album)) Stress is the second album made by Quebec band Anonymus.
  8. (Stress (biology)) Stress is a term in psychology and biology, first coined in the biological context in the 1930s, which has in more recent decades become a commonplace of popular parlance. ...
  9. (Stress (game)) Stress, or Hong Kong is a card game that uses a standard 52-card deck. Because of the rules of the game, it can only be played with a number of people that divides twelve (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, or 12 people). ...
  10. (Stress (journal)) Stress is a peer-reviewedmedical journal covering interdisciplinary aspects of stress in terms of: the mechanisms of stressful stimulation, the physiological and behavioural responses to stress, and their regulation, in both the short and long term; adaptive mechanisms, coping ...
  11. (Stress (music)) In music, an accent is an emphasis placed on a particular note, either as a result of its context or specifically indicated by an accent mark. Accents contribute to the articulation and prosody of a performance of a musical phrase. ...
  12. (Stress (Neo-Psychedelic band)) Stress was a very short-lived Neo-Psychedelic rock band composed of Wayne Binitie, Ian Mussington and Mitch Amachi Ogugua. They released only one album in 1991 on Reprise/Warner Bros. Records. ...
  13. Irritating; causing stress
  14. (stressfulness) The state or condition of being stressful
  15. (stress) The internal distribution of force per unit area (pressure) within a body reacting to applied forces which causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ; externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body; Emotional pressure suffered by a human ...
  16. (Stress) a physical or chemical factor that causes extra exertion by plants; a stressed plant will not grow as well as a non stressed plant.
  17. (stress) The prominence or emphasis given to particular syllables. Stressed syllables usually stand out because they have long, rather than short, vowels, or because they have a different pitch or are louder than other syllables.
  18. (stress) Force per unit area. It is measured in the same units as pressure, namely pascals (Pa). Materials typically have strengths in the megapascal (MPa) range (1 MPa = 1,000,000 Pa).
  19. (Stress) In a typeface, the axis around which the strokes are drawn: oblique (negative or positive) or vertical. Not to be confused with the angle of the strokes themselves (for instance, italics are made with slanted strokes, but may not have oblique stress).
  20. (Stress) An applied force or pressure, as tension or shear, exerted on a body which produces a resultant strain on the material. The ability of the material to withstand a stress depends on the strength of its cohesive force or molecular structure.
  21. (Stress) The Pali term dukkha, which is traditionally translated in the commentaries as, "that which is hard to bear", is notorious for having no truly adequate equivalent in English, but stress - in its basic sense as a strain on body or mind - seems as close as English can get. ...
  22. (Stress) Force per unit area applied by one part of an object to another. Pressure is an isotropic compressive stress. Suspending a mass from a fiber places it in tensile stress. ...
  23. (Stress) Forces from the outside world impinging on the individual. Stress is a normal part of life that can help us learn and grow. Conversely, stress can cause us significant problems.
  24. (stress) The nonspecific response of the body to any demands made upon it.
  25. (Stress) any factor that threatens the health of the body or has an adverse effect on its functioning, such as injury, disease, or worry. Constant stress brings about changes in the balance of hormones in the body.