stressful

English

Etymology

From stress +‎ -ful.

Pronunciation

• enPR: strĕs'fəl, IPA^(key): /ˈstɹɛsfəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

stressful (comparative more stressful, superlative most stressful)

1. Irritating; causing stress.
   • 1970, Richard Nelson Bolles, What Color Is Your Parachute?:

     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.

2. (of a task) Mentally taxing.

Related terms

• stress
• stressed
• stressfully

Translations

irritating; causing stress

• Afrikaans: stresvol, spanningsvol
• Armenian: սթրեսային (stʻresayin)
• Catalan: estressant
• Dutch: stressvol (nl)
• French: stressant (fr)
• German: stressig (de)
• Hungarian: stresszes (hu)
• Irish: strusmhar
• Italian: stressante (it), logorante (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stressende (no)

• Polish: stresujący
• Portuguese: estressante (Brazil), stressante (Portugal)
• Russian: напряжённый (ru) (naprjažónnyj), стре́ссовый (ru) (strɛ́ssovyj)
• Spanish: irritante (es), estresoso, estresante (es)