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strainful

strainful adjective: full of strain; requiring or exacting great effort; strenuous; stressful.

Adjective

strainful (comparative more strainful, superlative most strainful)

  1. Full of strain; requiring or exacting great effort; strenuous; stressful.
    • The general conclusion we wish to draw is a simple one. Certain strategies are less strainful than others in terms of the demands they place on memory and upon inference.1986, Jerome Seymour Bruner, Jacqueline J. Goodnow, George A. Austin, A Study of Thinking
    • In developing inventories of strainful events, criminologists must keep in mind the fact that there may be important […]2002, Suzette Cote, Criminological theories

Forms of strainful

comparativemore strainful
superlativemost strainful

Origin of strainful

From strain + -ful.

Questions about strainful

What does strainful mean?
Strainful means full of strain; requiring or exacting great effort; strenuous; stressful.
What part of speech is strainful?
Strainful is an adjective.

Words near strainful in the dictionary

  1. strainer posts
  2. strainerless
  3. strainers
  4. strainest
  5. straineth
  6. strainful
  7. straining
  8. straining a point
  9. straining at a gnat
  10. straining at the leash
  11. straining beam

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