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
• fussing
• stewing
• caring a hang
• agonizing
• giving a hang
• pining
• sweating blood
• longing
• yearning
• despairing
• chafing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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