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Synonyms for stress
strɛsstress
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
stress
Synonyms:
force, strain, weight, importance, pressure, urgency, emphasisAntonyms:
alleviation, stillness, lightness, unimportance, casualty, touch, triviality
Princeton's WordNet
stress, emphasis, accentnoun
the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
"he put the stress on the wrong syllable"
Synonyms:
tenseness, speech pattern, vehemence, emphasis, dialect, accent mark, accent, tension, strain, focus, idiomtension, tenseness, stressnoun
(psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense
"he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension"; "stress is a vasoconstrictor"
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accent, strain, latent hostility, focus, tensity, tautness, tension, tenseness, emphasisstress, focusnoun
special emphasis attached to something
"the stress was more on accuracy than on speed"
Synonyms:
tenseness, focal point, focusing, emphasis, centering, accent, direction, nidus, tension, strain, focus, focussingstress, strainnoun
difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension
"she endured the stresses and strains of life"; "he presided over the economy during the period of the greatest stress and danger"- R.J.Samuelson
Synonyms:
tune, melody, focus, pains, straining, strain, melodic line, tenseness, form, breed, tenor, tension, emphasis, var., air, variant, nisus, line, accent, stock, striving, nervous strain, melodic phrase, mental strain, songstressverb
(physics) force that produces strain on a physical body
"the intensity of stress is expressed in units of force divided by units of area"
Synonyms:
accent, tenseness, strain, emphasis, tension, focusstress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuateverb
to stress, single out as important
"Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"
Synonyms:
emphasise, mark, punctuate, try, accent, underscore, strain, accentuate, underline, emphasizestress, accent, accentuateverb
put stress on; utter with an accent
"In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"
Synonyms:
emphasise, punctuate, try, accent, strain, accentuate, emphasizetry, strain, stressverb
test the limits of
"You are trying my patience!"
Synonyms:
punctuate, strive, tense up, deform, try, sample, essay, filter out, test, try out, sift, reach, sieve, puree, examine, extend, seek, try on, filter, accentuate, separate out, strain, adjudicate, render, prove, emphasise, distort, judge, taste, filtrate, attempt, accent, tense, hear, assay, emphasize
Editors Contribution
train, pressure, tension, nervous tension, worry, anxiety, nervousness; trouble, difficulty, distres
a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances.
"he's obviously under a lot of stress"
Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019
Dictionary of English Synonymes
stressnoun
stressnoun
stressnoun
Synonyms:
importance, significance, weightstressnoun
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
stressnoun
Synonyms:
urgency, pressure, emphasis, accent, severity, inclemency, significance, importance
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "stress":
emphasise, underline, highlight, emphasize, underscore, stresses, stressful, constraint, pressure, stressors, tension, resistance, emphasis, insist, voltage, constraints, stressed, emphasized, emphasising, coercion, stressor, stress-related, strain, duress, coercive
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List of known nicknames for "Stress":
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
STRESS
Synonyms:
STent REStenosis Study ((1) N Engl J Med 1994;331:496-501; ((2) Am J Cardiol 1998;81:860-865 stress age syndrome STRESS Cardiology A trial comparing The STress REStenosis Study Primary endpoints MACE Conclusion Unknown www.tctmd.com/clinical-trials/; www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12018879See GLC7 ACRONYMS
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How to use stress in a sentence?
Sauerkraut does more than give your burger a delicious flavor boost, it’s actually a good source of probiotics, aka the good bacteria that live in your gut. These bacteria contribute to the health of your gut and are essential for a healthy digestive tract and immune function. Certain things like an unhealthy diet, undue stress, or a harsh round of antibiotics can affect the balance and health of the probiotics in the stomach. So it’s important to feed your gut with natural sources of probiotics, like sauerkraut.
The market moves already seen are giving insurers a lot to think about – in particular how their market risk models are coping with the current market stress.
For me, at 26, that is a lot of money, but it’s an expense I would never consider cutting from my budget, working out is a huge stress reliever for me.
People just dont need to be reporting to work with the added stress of worrying about how to pay their mortgages and grocery bills on top of it.
With travel roaring back, we’ve been innovating on ways to redesign your airport experience from beginning to end so that you’re not just getting to and from the airport, but also getting through it with less stress, our new series of products and features will help you plan for your upcoming trips and make your airport travel smoother than ever.
Translations for stress
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- إجهادArabic
- баҫымBashkir
- tensió, estressar, èmfasi, estrès, accentCatalan, Valencian
- zdůraznitCzech
- stresse, stressDanish
- betonen, Stress, Betonung, Spannung, beanspruchen, stressenGerman
- δύναμη, τονίζω, τονισμός, έμφασηGreek
- stresoEsperanto
- tensionar, estrés, enfatizar, tensar, estresar, énfasis, tensión, acento, acentuarSpanish
- rõhutamaEstonian
- فشار, دلهرهPersian
- rasitus, painotus, kuormitus, painottaa, jännittää, stressata, stressi, jännitysFinnish
- stresser, tension, stress, emphaser, soulignerFrench
- béim ghutha, aiceannIrish
- cudromScottish Gaelic
- מצוקהHebrew
- तनावHindi
- nyomaték, hangsúly, erő, nyomásHungarian
- acentizarIdo
- stress, áhersla, streitaIcelandic
- accento, pressione, enfasi, tensione, stressItalian
- ストレス, 力説, 応力, 重きJapanese
- ಒತ್ತಡKannada
- 강세를 넣다, 강조하다, 변형력을 주다, 스트레스, 강세, 강조, 변형력, 압박, 압박을 주다Korean
- spanning, zenuwenDutch
- emfaza, akcentować, nacisk, naprężenie, stresPolish
- tensão, estressePortuguese
- stres, încordare, tensiuneRomanian
- нажи́м, акце́нт, уси́лие, ударе́ние, напряже́ние, стресс, давле́ниеRussian
- spänning, betoningSwedish
- மன அழுத்தம்Tamil
- ఒత్తిడిTelugu
- ความเครียดThai
- stres, sıkıntı, vurgulamak, altını çizmek, vurgu, tonlamaTurkish
- nhấn mạnhVietnamese
- 應力Chinese
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