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stressier

stressier is the comparative form of stressy.

Meaning of stressy

Adjective

stressy (comparative stressier, superlative stressiest)

  1. (colloquial) stressful
    • That was one reason the Amsterdam show was so stressy. We'd been put on notice by the Board. Their nostrils strained for even a whiff of gay porn.2007, Damien Wilkins, For Everyone Concerned: And Other Stories, page 28
  2. (colloquial) stressed; irritable
    • My dad's job is under threat and he is so stressy these days it's a nightmare being anywhere near him. He yells a lot and he's so unfair!2009, Cathy Cassidy (quoting a letter), Letters To Cathy

Questions about stressier

What is stressier the comparative form of?
Stressier is the comparative form of stressy.

Words near stressier in the dictionary

  1. stressful
  2. stressfully
  3. stressfulness
  4. stresshead
  5. stressheads
  6. stressier
  7. stressiest
  8. stressify
  9. stressing
  10. stressing out
  11. stressless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stressier (page history and authors); stressy (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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