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fəl adjective
full of stress or tension: the stressful days before a war.
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stress (strɛs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | special emphasis or significance attached to something |
| 2. | mental, emotional, or physical strain or tension |
| 3. | emphasis placed upon a syllable by pronouncing it more loudly than those that surround it |
| 4. | such emphasis as part of a regular rhythmic beat in music or poetry |
| 5. | a syllable so emphasized |
| 6. | physics |
| a. force or a system of forces producing deformation or strain | |
| b. the force acting per unit area | |
| —vb | |
| 7. | (tr) to give emphasis or prominence to |
| 8. | (tr) to pronounce (a word or syllable) more loudly than those that surround it |
| 9. | (tr) to subject to stress or strain |
| 10. | informal (intr) to become stressed or anxious |
| [C14: stresse, shortened from | |
| 'stressful | |
| —adj | |
| 'stressfully | |
| —adv | |
| 'stressfulness | |
| —n | |
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Stress fully
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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