Stressed

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