Usually means: Causing mental or emotional strain.
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  1. stressful: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stressful: Merriam-Webster
  3. stressful: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stressful: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stressful: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stressful: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stressful, stressful: Wordnik
  8. stressful: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. stressful: Wiktionary
  10. stressful: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. stressful: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. stressful: Dictionary.com
  13. stressful: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Stressful: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. stressful: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. stressful: Rhymezone
  17. Stressful: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. stressful: FreeDictionary.org
  19. stressful: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. stressful: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stressful: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Stressful: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Irritating; causing stress.
▸ adjective:  (of a task) Mentally taxing.

Similar:
nerve-racking, nerve-wracking, trying, disagreeable, eustressful, stressy, overstressful, high-pressure, irritating, provoking, more...

Opposite:
relaxing, calming, peaceful, serene

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work, family, money, school, health, relationships, more...

Phrases:
very stressful, less stressful, not stressful, failed a stressful test, stressful situation, more...

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Similar:
nerve-racking, nerve-wracking, trying, disagreeable, eustressful, stressy, overstressful, high-pressure, irritating, provoking, more...

Opposite:
relaxing, calming, peaceful, serene

Types:
work, family, money, school, health, relationships, more...

Phrases:
very stressful, less stressful, not stressful, failed a stressful test, stressful situation, stressful situations, opposite of stressful, stressful time for a server, laborious or stressful, more...

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    red,     black,     gray,     dark blue,     brown, more...



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