STRESSFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stressful mean? 

• STRESSFUL (adjective)
  The adjective STRESSFUL has 1 sense:

1. extremely irritating to the nerves

  Familiarity information: STRESSFUL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRESSFUL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extremely irritating to the nerves

Synonyms:

nerve-racking; nerve-wracking; stressful; trying

Context example:

a trying day at the office

Similar:

disagreeable (not to your liking)

 Context examples 

The methods a person uses to deal with stressful situations.

(Coping skills, NCI Dictionary)

A 12 category life events questionnaire designed to assess the quality of life of a patient before, during and following stressful life events.

(List of Threatening Experiences Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

This could be very stressful and will take time to talk through and make a decision.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A condition in which a person responds to a stressful event (such as an illness, job loss, or divorce) with extreme emotions and actions that cause problems at work and home.

(Adjustment disorder, NCI Dictionary)

Further investigation showed that recalling positive events only reduced negative self-related thoughts and depressive symptoms in response to stressful life events, but not if the adolescents had experienced no stressful life events.

(Recalling happy memories during adolescence can reduce risk of depression, University of Cambridge)

Caring for someone who has Alzheimer's disease (AD) can be stressful and overwhelming.

(Alzheimer's Caregivers, NIH: National Institute on Aging)

Travelling can be stressful experience—whether it be to a vacation spot or business destination.

(Antibiotic Alternative Scores Well in Second Round of Swine Trials, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Like every major life change, divorce is stressful.

(Divorce, NIH)

A mind-body practice in which a person focuses his or her attention on something, such as an object, word, phrase, or breathing, in order to minimize distracting or stressful thoughts or feelings.

(Meditation, NCI Dictionary)

In stressful conditions, dissociation of oligomeric Hsp27 by phosphorylation may allow lower molecular weight forms to perform other non-chaperone functions.

(HSP27 Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)