stressful
/ˈstɹɛsfəl/
stressful adjective: irritating; causing stress.
Adjective
stressful (comparative more stressful, superlative most stressful)
- Irritating; causing stress.
- I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.1970, Richard Nelson Bolles, What Color Is Your Parachute?
- Whether you need to recover from a stressful day, a strenuous workout or even an injury or surgery, restorative yoga may be just the thing for you.2017 February 17, Dana Santas, “Recovering from surgery or stress? Yoga can help”, in CNN
- Mentally taxing.
stressful meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
stressful in Hindi
- तनावपूर्ण
stressful in Tamil
- அயர்வு நிலை
stressful in Marathi
- तणावपूर्ण
stressful in Urdu
- تناؤ والا
More languagesFewer languages
- stressful in Bengali
- মানসিক চাপযুক্ত, উদ্বেগজনক
- stressful in Malayalam
- പ്രയാസം prayāsaṁ
- stressful in Punjabi
- ਤਣਾਅਪੂਰਨ
- stressful in Nepali
- तनावपूर्ण
Examples of stressful in a sentence
- We both need a week retreat after those two stressful years working in the city.
- Living on top of one another in a refugee camp is stressful.
- My friend's job at a call center is so stressful he could tear his hair out.
Synonyms of stressful
Forms of stressful
| comparative | more stressful |
|---|---|
| superlative | most stressful |
Origin of stressful
From stress + -ful.
Words formed from stressful
Questions about stressful
- What does stressful mean?
- Stressful means irritating; causing stress.
- What is stressful in Hindi?
- Stressful in Hindi is तनावपूर्ण. See Stressful meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is stressful?
- Stressful is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce stressful?
- Stressful is pronounced /ˈstɹɛsfəl/.
Words near stressful in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: stressful (page history and authors); stressful (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stressful (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stressful (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stressful (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stressful (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); പ്രയാസം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); stressful (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stressful (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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