Stress vs Knackered - What's the difference?
stress | knackered |
(countable, physics) The internal distribution of force per unit area (pressure) within a body reacting to applied forces which causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by
(countable, physics) externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.
(uncountable) Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.
(uncountable, phonetics) The emphasis placed on a syllable of a word.
(uncountable) Emphasis placed on words in speaking.
(uncountable) Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).
(Scotland, legal) distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.
To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).
(informal) To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.
To emphasise (a syllable of a word).
To emphasise (words in speaking).
To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.
(UK, Irish, Australia, New Zealand, slang) tired or exhausted.
* 2002 , Robert Edenborough, Effective Interviewing: A Handbook of Skills and Techniques , pages 97-98
* 2003 , Hugh Dauncey, Geoff Hare (editors), The Tour de France, 1903-2003: A Century of Sporting Structures, Meanings and Values , Frank Cass Publishers, London, 2005,
* 2009 , Grace Maxwell, Falling & Laughing: The Restoration of Edwyn Collins ,
(knacker)
(UK, Irish, South Africa, colloquial) Broken, inoperative.
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* 2009 , John Newton, Vance Miller - Kitchen Gangster? , page 82
As a noun stress
is stress (emotional pressure).As an adjective knackered is
(uk|irish|australia|new zealand|slang) tired or exhausted or knackered can be (uk|irish|south africa|colloquial) broken, inoperative.As a verb knackered is
(knacker).stress
English
Noun
- Go easy on him, he's been under a lot of stress lately.
- Some people put the stress on the first syllable of “controversy”; others put it on the second.
- (Spenser)
Synonyms
* (phonetics) accent, emphasis * (on words in speaking) emphasis * (on a point) emphasisVerb
- “Emphasis” is stressed on the first syllable, but “emphatic” is stressed on the second.
- I must stress that this information is given in strict confidence.
Synonyms
* (phonetics) emphasise/emphasize * (on words in speaking) emphasise/emphasize * (on a point) emphasise/emphasize, underlineDerived terms
* stressed * stress outReferences
knackered
English
Etymology 1
From the verb (knacker).Adjective
(en adjective)- I can't go out tonight — I'm knackered .
- I've got this job in a warehouse just now and it finishes quite early but I'm dead knackered at the end of the day so I don't know about going out and like studying every night.
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- Then, it all just gets worse and worse, you don?t sleep so much, so you don?t recover as well from the day?s racing, so you go into your reserves, you get more knackered , so you sleep less... It?s simply a vicious circle.
page 84,
- So my joy at hearing his voice quickly turns to a paroxysm of anxiety as he manages by exhausted gesture and sound to let us know how knackered he feels, how desperate to get horizontal, almost from the first moment he lands in the chair.
Usage notes
* Rarely used in North America, where the usage is less well-known.Synonyms
* cream crackeredVerb
(head)Etymology 2
From "ready for the (term, knacker's yard)" or "fit to be knackered", meaning "worn-out livestock, fit to be slaughtered and rendered".Adjective
(en adjective)- We take an old knackered machine out to China and say, 'Copy that, brand new,' and they do.