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stressing

verb , present participle of stress

Synonyms and Antonyms of stressing

1 to experience concern or anxiety
  • the restaurant manager has a tendency to stress about every little thing that goes wrong
Synonyms of stressing

bothering, fearing, fretting, fussing, stewing, sweating, troubling, worrying
Words Related to stressing

agonizing

longing, pining, yearning

chafing

despairing
Phrases Synonymous with stressing

giving a hang (or caring a hang), sweating blood
Near Antonyms of stressing

accepting

abiding, bearing, enduring, sticking out, stomaching, sustaining, taking, tolerating
2 to make more apparent
  • his bad performance only stressed what I'd been saying all along
Synonyms of stressing

accentuating, bringing out, emphasizing, italicizing, underlining, underscoring
Words Related to stressing

amplifying, beefing (up), boosting, reinforcing (also reenforcing), strengthening

augmenting, deepening, enhancing, enlarging, heightening, magnifying, maximizing, supplementing

enlivening, jazzing (up)
Near Antonyms of stressing

decreasing, diminishing, lessening, minimizing, reducing, subduing, toning (down), understating, weakening
Antonyms of stressing

de-emphasizing
3 to indicate the importance of by centering attention on
  • the doctor stressed the importance of exercise
Synonyms of stressing

accenting, accentuating, emphasizing, featuring, foregrounding, highlighting, illuminating, playing up, pointing (up), pressing, punctuating
Words Related to stressing

focusing (also focussing), identifying, pinpointing, spotlighting

advertising, boosting, plugging, promoting, publicizing

overplaying
Phrases Synonymous with stressing

bearing down on, making much of
Near Antonyms of stressing

toning (down), underemphasizing, understating

belittling, discounting, disparaging, minimizing
Antonyms of stressing

de-emphasizing, playing down

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