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Stressful vs Exhausting - What's the difference?

stressful | exhausting |

As adjectives the difference between stressful and exhausting

is that stressful is irritating; causing stress while exhausting is very tiring.

As a verb exhausting is

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stressful

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Irritating; causing stress.
  • I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change. –Richard Nelson Bolles

    exhausting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Very tiring.
  • * This task is exhausting !
  • Verb

    (head)