Word.ws English Dictionary

stressaholic

stressaholic noun: one who lives a very stressful life and has trouble relaxing.

Noun

stressaholic (plural stressaholics)

  1. (informal) One who lives a very stressful life and has trouble relaxing.
    • We must fight the stressaholic burnout syndrome together.1989, Mary Ann Froehlich, What's a Smart Woman Like You Doing in a Place Like This?, page 127
    • Invented in Australia, the Vibrosaun — a sauna/vibrator/sound system —can relax even the hardcore stressaholic.1989, Malcolm Abrams, Harriet Bernstein, Future Stuff, page 107

Forms of stressaholic

pluralstressaholics

Origin of stressaholic

From stress + -aholic.

Questions about stressaholic

What does stressaholic mean?
Stressaholic means one who lives a very stressful life and has trouble relaxing.
What part of speech is stressaholic?
Stressaholic is a noun.
What is the plural of stressaholic?
The plural of stressaholic is stressaholics.

Words near stressaholic in the dictionary

  1. stress-free
  2. stress-timed
  3. stress-wise
  4. stressability
  5. stressable
  6. stressaholic
  7. stressaholics
  8. stressbuster
  9. stressbusters
  10. stressbusting
  11. stresse

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stressaholic (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “stressaholic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/stressaholic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.