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Stressful vs Stressed - What's the difference?

stressful | stressed |

As adjectives the difference between stressful and stressed

is that stressful is irritating; causing stress while stressed is suffering stress (either physical or mental.

As a verb stressed is

past tense of stress.

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

    stressed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (stress)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • suffering stress (either physical or mental)
  • (phonetics) having a stress or accent
  • Antonyms

    * unstressed

    Anagrams

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