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stressed
01
feeling so anxious that makes one unable to relax
Grammatical Information
Composition
past participle adjective
qualitative
Superlative
most stressed
Comparative
more stressed
gradable
Examples
She felt so stressed about the upcoming exams that she couldn't sleep.
02
suffering severe physical strain or distress
03
(phonetics) referring to the emphasis or prominence placed on a particular syllable or segment in a word or utterance
Examples
In the sentence 'She will ARRIVE tomorrow,' the word 'arrive' is stressed to convey importance.
Lexical Tree
unstressed
stressed
stress
