Stressful

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stressful \Stress"ful\, a.
     Having much stress. --Rush.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  stressful
       adj : extremely irritating to the nerves; "nerve-racking noise";
             "the stressful days before a war"; "a trying day at the
             office" [syn: {nerve-racking}, {nerve-wracking}, {trying}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  41 Moby Thesaurus words for "stressful":
     adverse, antagonistic, conflicting, contrary, counter,
     counteractive, detrimental, difficult, draining, exhausting,
     fatiguesome, fatiguing, grueling, hard, harmful, hostile,
     in opposition, inimical, killing, miserable, not easy, opposed,
     opposing, opposite, punishing, rigorous, sinister, straining,
     tiresome, tiring, toilsome, troublesome, troublous, trying,
     unfavorable, untoward, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying,
     wretched