2 definitions found From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: stressed adj 1: suffering severe physical strain or distress; "he dropped out of the race, clearly distressed and having difficulty breathing"; "the victim was in a bad way and needed immediate attention" [syn: {distressed}, {in a bad way(p)}] 2: bearing a stress or accent; "an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in `delay'" [ant: {unstressed}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 101 Moby Thesaurus words for "stressed": accented, accentuated, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, decided, dental, dissimilated, dorsal, emphasized, emphatic, flat, forceful, forcible, front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high, in red letters, intonated, italicized, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, pointed, positive, posttonic, punctuated, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, soft, sonant, starred, stopped, strong, surd, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, underlined, underscored, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide
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