stressful

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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From stress + -ful.

That less stressful time was now beginning. — Children of the Whirlwind, Leroy Scott
Undoubtedly there must have been many sculptures of the same age elsewhere, even allowing for the slackened energies and aspirations of a stressful and uncertain period; indeed, very certain evidence of the existence of others came to us shortly afterward. — At the mountains of madness, H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft
But it was from one little window, with its blind drawn down, a mere blank transparency on the night, that the sense of home and the little curtained world within walls—the larger stressful world of outside Nature shut out and forgotten—most pulsated. — The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

nerve-racking, nerve-wracking, trying

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