Synonyms for stress
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1. stressnoun

   To emphasise (words in speaking).

   Synonyms:
   emphasis, emphasise, emphasize

2. stressnoun

   Synonyms:
   emphasis, accent, emphasise, emphasize

3. stressverb

   Synonyms:
   emphasis, underline, emphasize, emphasise

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. stress

   Synonyms:
   force, strain, weight, importance, pressure, urgency, emphasis

   Antonyms:
   alleviation, stillness, lightness, unimportance, casualty, touch, triviality

Princeton's WordNet(3.33 / 3 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. stress, emphasis, accentnoun

   the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)

   "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"

   Synonyms:
   tenseness, speech pattern, vehemence, emphasis, dialect, accent mark, accent, tension, strain, focus, idiom

2. tension, tenseness, stressnoun

   (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense

   "he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension"; "stress is a vasoconstrictor"

   Synonyms:
   accent, strain, latent hostility, focus, tensity, tautness, tension, tenseness, emphasis

3. stress, focusnoun

   special emphasis attached to something

   "the stress was more on accuracy than on speed"

   Synonyms:
   tenseness, focal point, focusing, emphasis, centering, accent, direction, nidus, tension, strain, focus, focussing

4. stress, strainnoun

   difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension

   "she endured the stresses and strains of life"; "he presided over the economy during the period of the greatest stress and danger"- R.J.Samuelson

   Synonyms:
   tune, melody, focus, pains, straining, strain, melodic line, tenseness, form, breed, tenor, tension, emphasis, var., air, variant, nisus, line, accent, stock, striving, nervous strain, melodic phrase, mental strain, song

5. stressverb

   (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body

   "the intensity of stress is expressed in units of force divided by units of area"

   Synonyms:
   accent, tenseness, strain, emphasis, tension, focus

6. stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuateverb

   to stress, single out as important

   "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"

   Synonyms:
   emphasise, mark, punctuate, try, accent, underscore, strain, accentuate, underline, emphasize

7. stress, accent, accentuateverb

   put stress on; utter with an accent

   "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"

   Synonyms:
   emphasise, punctuate, try, accent, strain, accentuate, emphasize

8. try, strain, stressverb

   test the limits of

   "You are trying my patience!"

   Synonyms:
   punctuate, strive, tense up, deform, try, sample, essay, filter out, test, try out, sift, reach, sieve, puree, examine, extend, seek, try on, filter, accentuate, separate out, strain, adjudicate, render, prove, emphasise, distort, judge, taste, filtrate, attempt, accent, tense, hear, assay, emphasize

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1. train, pressure, tension, nervous tension, worry, anxiety, nervousness; trouble, difficulty, distres

   a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances.

   "he's obviously under a lot of stress"

   Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019  

Dictionary of English Synonymes(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. stressnoun

   Synonyms:
   force, strain

2. stressnoun

   Synonyms:
   pressure, urgency

3. stressnoun

   Synonyms:
   importance, significance, weight

4. stressnoun

   Synonyms:
   emphasis, accent

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. stressnoun

   Synonyms:
   urgency, pressure, emphasis, accent, severity, inclemency, significance, importance

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1. List of paraphrases for "stress":

   emphasise, underline, highlight, emphasize, underscore, stresses, stressful, constraint, pressure, stressors, tension, resistance, emphasis, insist, voltage, constraints, stressed, emphasized, emphasising, coercion, stressor, stress-related, strain, duress, coercive

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1. List of known nicknames for "Stress":

   Chris Brown

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. STRESS

   Synonyms:
   STent REStenosis Study ((1) N Engl J Med 1994;331:496-501; ((2) Am J Cardiol 1998;81:860-865 stress age syndrome STRESS Cardiology A trial comparing The STress REStenosis Study Primary endpoints MACE Conclusion Unknown www.tctmd.com/clinical-trials/; www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12018879See GLC7 ACRONYMS

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1. Dale Bredesen:

   We are now looking at what is causing illness in order to make a big impact on it, if you're not deteriorating, it's a good idea to do what our moms told us to do: Exercise, get sleep, keep stress down and don't eat junk food.

2. Arisa Hosaka:

   Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise.

3. Emily Pankhurst:

   I was going through an extremely stressful time, trying to complete deadlines for essays and everything on top of me, i started complaining of fatigue, high temperature and constant headaches, which I believed were stress-related. However, down below I noticed abnormal discharge appear straight after my regular period.

4. David Herro:

   What we certainly got wrong here is that, when we first started buying, we should probably have stress-tested the balance sheet to price movements a little better, because they were carrying too much debt given the volatility, but they have gone through the right steps to basically de-risk that, and if you look at what they have done since the summer - the equity sale, the asset sales and the asset sales to come - and given that they are taking costs out the business, this company isn't going under. It isn't a black hole, which is what the shorts' story was.

5. Jessica Matthews:

   Pilot studies have pointed to reduced stress levels after even a single bout of exercise.