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 AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. stress

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

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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.3 / 3 votes

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 SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. stressnoun

   Synonyms:
   force, strain

2. stressnoun

   Synonyms:
   pressure, urgency

3. stressnoun

   Synonyms:
   importance, significance, weight

4. stressnoun

   Synonyms:
   emphasis, accent

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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, MDRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

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. Serena Williams ':

   I have tried to defend there once, twice... before. Didn't quite work so well. But this year is different, i feel more calm and I don't feel stress, like I have to win. I feel like just happy to be out here.

2. Maryna Berozy:

   I was crying and hysterical and couldn’t stop. The stress of these past few days was taking over, i had to take a double dose of anti-anxiety medicine to stop.

3. Roger King:

   I have a cat named Trash. In the current political climate it would seem that if I were trying to sell him (at least to a Computer Scientist), I would not stress that he is gentle to humans and is self-sufficient, living mostly on field mice. Rather, I would argue that he is object-oriented.

4. Rebecca Utz:

   Their stress has real physical health outcomes, which may alter or reduce their ability to provide caregiving. This has implications on the longevity and staying-power of caregivers, especially those that are expected to provide long duration of caregiving.

5. Mary Jo Kreitzer:

   I think it follows the line of so many studies that have been coming out about mindfulness-based stress reduction over the last 15 years. Literally hundreds of studies have come out, mindfulness is a way to slow down and be in the present moment and that's what mindfulness training is, so in a mindfulness class people focus on breathing and relaxation and that's sort of how they ease into a practice of meditation.