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adjective
- 1. causing mental or emotional stress: "corporate finance work can be stressful"
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adjective. us / ˈstres·fəl / Add to word list. causing worry and anxiety: Working in the emergency room of a major hospital is highly stressful work.
The meaning of STRESSFUL is full of or tending to induce stress. How to use stressful in a sentence.
adjective. us / ˈstres.f ə l / uk / ˈstres.f ə l / Add to word list Add to word list. B1. making you feel worried and nervous: a stressful day / job. Police work is physically demanding and stressful. She's very good at coping in stressful situations. Synonym. nerve-racking. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Causing anxiety and worry.
Stressful means full of stress or causing stress. It’s typically used to describe situations or experiences, such as stressful meetings, stressful trips, or a stressful day. In stressful, the word stress means mental or emotional strain or tension
If something makes you anxious, it is stressful. Stress is how your body reacts to difficult situations. Driving through heavy city traffic can be very stressful, leaving you exhausted afterward. Some people react to stressful situations by eating too much, others by not eating, or by losing sleep.
a difficult situation caused by too much being needed or expected from a system, resource, etc. : stress on The city is finding it hard to cope with stress on its housing supply. Adding 32 million people is going to put stresses on all of our systems. under stress Emergency food supplies are under stress as a result of widespread famine and war.
Definition of stressful adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
