STRESSED Synonyms

• eagerly desirous

• causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

• bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities

• bearing a physically heavy weight or load

• generalized feeling of distress

• facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty

• suffering severe physical strain or distress

• afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief

• depleted of energy, force, or strength

• drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted

• drained physically

• disappointingly unsuccessful

• troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances

• lacking natural ease

• showing signs of mental and emotional tension

• lacking spontaneity; not natural

• struggling for effect

• in or of a state of physical or nervous tension

• pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')

• taut or rigid; stretched tight

• a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time

• become stretched or tense or taut

• increase the tension on

• become tense, nervous, or uneasy

• cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious

• being in a tense state

• afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief

• mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc

• overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

• charge someone with too many tasks

• cover completely or make imperceptible

• overcome by superior force

• the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit)

• a force that compels

• the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure

• the state of demanding notice or attention

• the somatic sensation that results from applying force to an area of skin

• an oppressive condition of physical or mental or social or economic distress

• the pressure exerted by the atmosphere

• to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means

• exert pressure on someone through threats

• distinctive manner of oral expression

• special importance or significance

• the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people

• the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)

• a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation

• to stress, single out as important

• put stress on; utter with an accent

• to stress, single out as important

• put stress on; utter with an accent

• give extra weight to (a communication)

• to stress, single out as important

• to stress, single out as important

• give extra weight to (a communication)

• (physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces

• difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension

• a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence

• (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress

• a special variety of domesticated animals within a species

• (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups

• injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in swelling and pain

• the general meaning or substance of an utterance

• an effortful attempt to attain a goal

• an intense or violent exertion

• the act of singing

• to exert much effort or energy

• test the limits of

• use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity

• separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements

• cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious

• become stretched or tense or taut

• remove by passing through a filter

• rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender

• alter the shape of (something) by stress

• special importance or significance

• intensity or forcefulness of expression

• special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g.

• the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)

• the concentration of attention or energy on something

• maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system

• maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea

• a central point or locus of an infection in an organism

• special emphasis attached to something

• a point of convergence of light (or other radiation) or a point from which it diverges

• a fixed reference point on the concave side of a conic section

• direct one's attention on something

• cause to converge on or toward a central point

• bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions

• become focussed or come into focus

• put (an image) into focus