overstressed

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.77 in modern English

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adj

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"In the last few years, aromatherapy, or the science of smell, has become one of the most popular forms of natural therapy for overstressed executives."
"More than 90% said they were stressed at work and 69% said they would take industrial action to vent their anger."
"By failing to name the agency in question, you do nothing to help the overworked, overstressed mom who needs to be made aware of this horrible agency."

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English stressed English overstressed From over- + stressed.

more overstressed (comparative) most overstressed (superlative)

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