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Adjective stressed has 2 senses

• stressed(s = adj.all) distressed - suffering severe physical strain or distress; "he dropped out of the race, clearly distressed and having difficulty breathing"
• stressed(a = adj.all) accented - bearing a stress or accent; "an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in `delay'"
Antonym: unstressed

THESAURUS

stressed

accented, accentuated, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, decided, dental, dissimilated, dorsal, emphasized, emphatic, flat, forceful, forcible, front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high, in red letters, intonated, italicized, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, pointed, positive, posttonic, punctuated, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, soft, sonant, starred, stopped, strong, surd, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, underlined, underscored, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide

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