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stressful, a.|ˈstrɛsfʊl|
[f. stress n. + -ful2.]
Causing or inclined to cause stress; full of, or subject to, stress or strain.
1853E. S. Sheppard Ch. Auchester II. 206, I could not bear the stressful brightness. 1886M. Linskill Haven under Hill I. ii. 28 The stressful days of labour and care. 1952Psychosomatic Med. XIV. 311/2 Characteristically in the patient with chronic fatigue, the stressful activity is implicit rather than explicit. 1966O. Norton School of Liars vi. 104 ‘How do you protect a man like him from stress?’.. ‘By not being stressful yourself.’ 1972C. M. Parkes Bereavement iii. 32 Situations that tend to produce alarm are regarded as stressful. 1978Detroit Free Press 5 Mar. d4/4 Are you always changing things in your life, changing jobs, changing residences?.. If so, subtract two years. Too much change is stressful.
Hence ˈstressfully adv.
1890Harper's Mag. Apr. 809/1 [Her poetry] is often too stressfully subjective. 1902Q. Rev. Apr. 367 Flaubert..preached, and laboured stressfully to put into practice, his conviction that great art is ‘scientific and impersonal’. |