stressed

2 definitions found

stressed - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  stressed
      adj 1: suffering severe physical strain or distress; "he dropped
             out of the race, clearly distressed and having difficulty
             breathing" [syn: stressed, distressed]
      2: bearing a stress or accent; "an iambic foot consists of an
         unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in
         `delay'" [syn: stressed, accented] [ant: unstressed]

stressed - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  101 Moby Thesaurus words for "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