Synonyms of stressing

stressing

verb

present participle of stress

1

as in worrying

to experience concern or anxiety

the restaurant manager has a tendency to stress about every little thing that goes wrong

Synonyms & Similar Words

• worrying
• fretting
• fearing
• troubling
• sweating
• bothering
• stewing
• fussing
• giving a hang
• sweating blood
• yearning
• pining
• longing
• agonizing
• despairing
• chafing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• accepting
• taking
• sustaining
• bearing
• enduring
• tolerating
• abiding
• sticking out
• stomaching

2

as in emphasizing

to make more apparent

his bad performance only stressed what I'd been saying all along

Synonyms & Similar Words

• emphasizing
• reinforcing
• deepening
• underlining
• underscoring
• enhancing
• accentuating
• strengthening
• bringing out
• italicizing
• supplementing
• maximizing
• amplifying
• heightening
• augmenting
• enlarging
• boosting
• magnifying
• beefing (up)
• enlivening
• jazzing (up)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reducing
• minimizing
• decreasing
• diminishing
• de-emphasizing
• weakening
• lessening
• understating
• subduing
• toning (down)

3

as in highlighting

to indicate the importance of by centering attention on

the doctor stressed the importance of exercise

Synonyms & Similar Words

• emphasizing
• highlighting
• featuring
• punctuating
• identifying
• accentuating
• focusing
• pointing (up)
• foregrounding
• accenting
• pressing
• illuminating
• promoting
• bearing down on
• playing up
• pinpointing
• making much of
• publicizing
• advertising
• spotlighting
• plugging
• boosting
• overplaying

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• minimizing
• playing down
• understating
• de-emphasizing
• toning (down)
• discounting
• belittling
• disparaging
• underemphasizing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of stressing

Bardem picked up on the film’s message, stressing its relevance today. — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 17 Oct. 2026

Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and other officials have ruled out the deployment of combat troops, stressing that the pact is purely defensive. — ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026

Rescuers who transported the animals to the zoo moved at a painstaking pace, carefully navigating every bump and turn to avoid stressing or injuring them, said Indalkar from the forest department in Odisha. — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026

Finally, Horrigan noted that inbound freight deserves the same rigorous management as outbound, stressing that procurement teams need visibility into the freight component of supplier pricing. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026

Officials at the World Petroleum Congress on Monday echoed his message, with many stressing that disrupting Saudi energy supplies would have consequences beyond its borders. — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

Earlier popes had maintained that exception, though Pope John Paul II increasingly advocated ending capital punishment, stressing that those convicted of crimes retain their human dignity. — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026

Balakrishnan, however, cautioned against viewing the issue simply through the lens of who buys the oil, stressing the importance of maintaining freedom of navigation through international waterways. — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026

Iranian nuclear enrichment has been a key issue for the White House, with the president and other top officials stressing that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon as a core objective of the war. — Frank Andrews, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026