Synonyms for stressful
stress·ful

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1. nerve-racking, nerve-wracking, stressful, tryingadjective

   extremely irritating to the nerves

   "nerve-racking noise"; "the stressful days before a war"; "a trying day at the office"

   Synonyms:
   nerve-racking, trying, nerve-wracking

   Antonyms:
   agreeable

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1. List of paraphrases for "stressful":

   stress, nerve-wracking, stress-related, distressing

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1. The ECB chief economist:

   It is true that it is a stressful situation, i'm not going to discuss how long this will go on. Verbal discipline is of the essence in crisis times.

2. Neville Agnew:

   It is an incredibly precious object, so it was a very stressful time to safely move the mummy, it was terrifying.

3. Tyra Bryant-Stephens:

   Parents who are living really stressful lives can't stop what they're doing to take care of that one item, necessarily, so if you have a child who seems to be OK, doesn't have symptoms right then, you may delay that just because of all the other competing priorities.

4. Katie McLaughlin:

   Some of these markers of accelerated aging are really ease to observe, there's a consistent pattern that growing up in a stressful environment leads to more aging compared with those who did not.

5. Debra Messing:

   I know that I need to laugh, it's been a stressful year and I want to make people laugh, and I think more than anything that's what we are all feeling right now, is we want to make people laugh.