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Synonyms for stressed
Synonyms for stressed: accented and distressed. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for stressed
Interchangeable with stressed in this sense
Audited under stressed's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one stressed carries in that sense.
- accentedadjective, in the sense "bearing a stress or accent"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name stressed as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- distresseddistressed is an adjective in the sense "suffering severe physical strain or distress"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under stressed and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
bearing a stress or accent
An iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in 'delay'.
The true synonym
accented
Same sentence, swapped: An iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a accented syllable as in 'delay'.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- distressed
- pointed
- narrow
Where stressed turns up in the game
stressed is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play stressed
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so stressed reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Sorted by difficulty rather than by topic, which is what an untagged word has to go on.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. stressed carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.