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eustress

/juːˈstɹɛs/

eustress noun: a healthful, stimulating kind and level of stress.

Noun

eustress (countable and uncountable, plural eustresses)

  1. A healthful, stimulating kind and level of stress.

Verb

eustress (third-person singular simple present eustresses, present participle eustressing, simple past and past participle eustressed)

  1. To cause eustress for someone.

eustress meaning in Bengali

eustress in Bengali

স্বাস্থ্যকর

Antonyms of eustress

Forms of eustress

Noun
pluraleustresses
Verb
third-person singular presenteustresses
present participleeustressing
past participleeustressed
pasteustressed

Origin of eustress

From eu- + stress, coined by contrast with distress, as if interpreting the latter as dys- + stress.

Words formed from eustress

Questions about eustress

What does eustress mean?
Eustress means a healthful, stimulating kind and level of stress.
What is eustress in Bengali?
Eustress in Bengali is স্বাস্থ্যকর. See Eustress meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is eustress?
Eustress can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce eustress?
Eustress is pronounced /juːˈstɹɛs/.
What is the plural of eustress?
The plural of eustress is eustresses.

Words near eustress in the dictionary

  1. Eustises
  2. Euston
  3. Eustonite
  4. Eustonites
  5. eustreptospondylus
  6. eustress
  7. eustressed
  8. eustresses
  9. eustressful
  10. eustressing
  11. eustyle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eustress (page history and authors); eustress (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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