Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "stress" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Capable Of

age grieving person age prematurely cause mental illness cause mental pain push over edge

Causes

depression fatigue headache heart attacks ulcers

Causes Desire

breathe breathe fresh air clean house dream drink alcohol enjoy film get exercise go on vacation hang out at bar have nervous breakdown hear music hit bottle

Defined As

result of internal or external forces

Derived Terms

Peierls stress anti-stress combat stress reaction complex post-traumatic stress disorder critical incident stress management de-stress destress engineering stress eu-stress flow stress genotoxic stress internal stress nitrosative stress oxidative stress porcine stress syndrome post traumatic stress disorder post-traumatic stress disorder post-traumatic stress syndrome posttraumatic stress disorder premenstrual stress primary stress residual stress secondary stress shear stress storm and stress stress ball stress cardiomyopathy stress deafness stress eating stress fracture stress function stress incontinence stress mark stress of weather stress out stress puppy stress test stress timing stress wood stress-free stress-timed stressed stressfree stressful stresshead stresswise true stress yield stress

Context

biology legal phonetics physics scotland

Has Property

epidemic unpleasant for people

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

accent afflict articulate difficultness difficulty emphasis enounce enunciate evince express force get have inflection mental strain nervous strain pronounce prosody say show sound out strain suffer sustain

Type Of (IsA)

attribute of mind difficulty displeasure emphasis force phenomenon prosody

Manner Of

express pronounce

Not Has Property

conducive to comfortable life

Related Terms

strain strait strict stringency stringent

Related Terms

deformation distrain distress pressure strain strait strict stringency stringent

Synonym Network

accent emphasis emphasise tension try

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.