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Synonyms & Antonyms of stressful
full of or causing stress; making you feel worried or anxious
- I had a stressful day at work today.
- a stressful situation
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for stressful
- arduous,
- Augean,
- backbreaking,
- challenging,
- demanding,
- difficult,
- effortful,
- exacting,
- formidable,
- grueling
- (or gruelling),
- hard,
- heavy,
- hellacious,
- herculean,
- killer,
- laborious,
- moiling,
- murderous,
- pick-and-shovel,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- rugged,
- severe,
- stiff,
- strenuous,
- sweaty,
- tall,
- testing,
- toilsome,
- tough,
- uphill
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The first known use of stressful was in 1853
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