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  • adjective colloquial stressful
  • adjective colloquial stressed; irritable

Etymologies

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stress +‎ -y

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Examples

  • "The recent details suggest the test is very soft, with assumptions not very 'stressy' at all," he said, adding that CEBS needs to do more in terms of improving credibility before the release of the results on July 23.

    Banks Will Need More Cash After Stress Tests 2010

  • The day before a holiday is supposed to be the most exciting, but I always find that there is a dip in my excitement level on that day, because no matter how prepared you are, there are always a million little things to do and it becomes kind of stressy and tiring.

    sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2002

  • Meeting at Liverpool Street Station in London was kind of stressy because we had to pick up some tickets that I'd paid for over the phone, and Neil couldn't find a place to park the car at our local station, so I ended up jumping on the train with the three girls just as the doors were closing, tossing Neil his ticket and watching him gesture from the station that he would meet us there.

    sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2003

  • Still stressy over deadlines, but the bugs seemed to have surrendered.

    I aten't dead ... karenmiller 2009

  • They are pushy, and the normal stressy, grumpy Nathreee would hate them.

    Tenerife day 3 nathreee 2010

  • They are pushy, and the normal stressy, grumpy Nathreee would hate them.

    Tenerife day 3 nathreee 2010

  • In order to turn this book in on time I need huge vast amounts more than 1000 words a day, but at this point I think focusing on that is just going to make me very, very stressy and that will * not* help get the book done.

    HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! 2008

  • For myself, 2007 was entirely too stressy for my own taste.

    January « 2008 « Were rabbits 2008

  • For myself, 2007 was entirely too stressy for my own taste.

    Happy New Year! « Were rabbits 2008

  • In order to turn this book in on time I need huge vast amounts more than 1000 words a day, but at this point I think focusing on that is just going to make me very, very stressy and that will * not* help get the book done.

    HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! 2008

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