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Stress   /strɛs/   Listen
Stress

noun
1.
The relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch).  Synonyms: accent, emphasis.
2.
(psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense.  Synonyms: tenseness, tension.  "Stress is a vasoconstrictor"
3.
Special emphasis attached to something.  Synonym: focus.
4.
Difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension.  Synonym: strain.  "He presided over the economy during the period of the greatest stress and danger"
5.
(physics) force that produces strain on a physical body.
verb
1.
To stress, single out as important.  Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate.
2.
Put stress on; utter with an accent.  Synonyms: accent, accentuate.
3.
Test the limits of.  Synonyms: strain, try.



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"Stress" Quotes from Famous Books



... than whom stands no higher in the Northern M.E. Church, aptly states the whole matter thus: "There are people who put stress on sentiment and emotion in religion. If they 'feel good,' they have no doubt as to their present security and their acceptance with God. These people covet moods and states of feeling. They revel in songs ...
— The Spirit and the Word - A Treatise on the Holy Spirit in the Light of a Rational - Interpretation of the Word of Truth • Zachary Taylor Sweeney
... unlawful to steal through stress of need. For penance is not imposed except on one who has sinned. Now it is stated (Extra, De furtis, Cap. Si quis): "If anyone, through stress of hunger or nakedness, steal food, clothing or beast, he shall do penance for ...
— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas
... her iron. "Well, I was sort of calculating on going over for a bit; Miss Shirley having laid particular stress on my coming and this being the first reg'lar doings since I joined the club. I told her and Pauline they mustn't look for me to go junketing 'round with them all the while, seeing I'm in office—so to speak—and my time pretty well taken up with my ...
— The S. W. F. Club • Caroline E. Jacobs
... too, upon which much stress is laid but about which I have very grave doubts, is the possibility of a unified organisation of the Empire for military defence. We are to have, it is suggested, an imperial Army and an imperial Navy, and so far, no doubt, as the guaranteeing of a general peace goes, ...
— An Englishman Looks at the World • H. G. Wells
... astrological predictions, which may be picked up in that immensity of fabling which disgraces history. He strenuously denies, or ridicules, what the greatest writers have said against this fanciful art, while he lays great stress on some passages from authors of no authority. The most pleasant part is at the close, where he defends the art from the objections of Mr. Chamber by recrimination. Chamber had enriched himself by medical practice; and when he charges the astrologers with merely aiming to gain ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli


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