stressfuladj.

1846 C.H.C. It blows, It Snows v. 172 Which description of music may partly be comprehended, by dint of stressful imagination.

1905 Western Field Sept. 688/1 The brakemen shouted ‘Milwaukee’, with a stressful accent on the first syllable.

1922 W. H. Blake In Fishing Country 251 The stressful effort of others could hardly avail, but Patti and Sims Reeves (in their great days) sang with drawing-room ease.

2008 K. Naik & P. Tripathy Software Testing & Quality Assurance (e-book ed.) The system should be capable of handling extremely high or stressful load.

1886 M. Linskill Haven under Hill I. ii. 28 The stressful days of labour and care.

1945 School Rev. 53 308/2 Music is necessary to our well-being in the stressful period through which we are now passing.

1978 Detroit 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.

2016 @katiebholliday 7 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 4 Oct. 2019) Will I ever be able to handle a stressful situation without having to call my mom?

1900 Musical Times May 3192 His genial, genius-conceived strains are simply delightful in contrast with the tone-stressfulness and too often laboured effects which characterise so many uninspired modern creations.

1948 Science 5 Nov. 510/1 An objective indication of stressfulness is provided by the lymphocyte count.

2001 M. F. Dollard et al. Occup. Strain & Efficacy in Human Service Workers (e-book ed.) Statistics on claim rates and costs can not inform us accurately about stressfulness of work environments.