Stressed — synonyms, stressed antonyms, definition

1. stressed (Adjective)

accented distressed unstressed

stressed (Adjective) — Suffering severe physical strain or distress. ex. "he dropped out of the race, clearly stressed and having difficulty breathing"

stressed (Adjective) — Bearing a stress or accent. ex. "an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in 'delay'"

2. stressed (Verb)

accentuated emphasised emphasized punctuated strained tried

stressed (Verb) — Single out as important; draw attention to (something). ex. "Dr. Jones stresses exercise in addition to a change in diet"

stressed (Verb) — Put stress on; utter with an accent. ex. "In Farsi, you stress the last syllable of each word"

stressed (Verb) — Test the limits of. ex. "You are stressing my patience!"

afflicted articulated enounced enunciated evinced expressed pronounced said showed sounded out backgrounded bore down brought out downplayed drove home emphasised emphasized played down pointed up pressed home racked rammed home re-emphasised re-emphasized set off topicalised topicalized underlined underscored