stressed-out

[strest-out]

adjective

1. afflicted with or incapacitated by stress.

Example Sentences

At the age of 40, he shifted to working with stressed-out traders and determining who can make it inside Wall Street’s pods.

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Masha Maltsava, a Los Angeles-based photographer, says she spent much of her young adulthood stressed-out and sleep-deprived.

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For the longtime “Parks and Rec” star’s directorial debut, he has written himself a witty if occasionally finger-wagging script about wealth inequality as approached from the viewpoint of stressed-out gig-economy workers.

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In the new Hulu comedy, Zahn plays Jake Hudson, the stressed-out head coach of the fictional South Georgia Catfish.

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What I found was equal parts mundane and dystopian: hassled public servants, bored security guards, worried public observers, and stressed-out families all crammed next to disorganized gangs of federal agents, most of whom chose to cover their faces with balaclavas, hats, and mirrored sunglasses, their chests puffed out with body armor and tactical gear.

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When To Use

What does stressed-out mean?

Stressed-out means experiencing a lot of emotional stress.The adjective stressed can mean the same thing. Both terms often imply that the level of stress is intense or higher than usual—that stress has built up and is becoming hard to deal with.The phrasal verb stress out can mean to experience stress, as in Don’t stress out about the meeting—it’s not a big deal. It can also mean to cause someone to experience stress, as in You’re really stressing me out. The term stressed-out comes from the past tense of this sense: someone who is stressed-out has been stressed out by someone or something (or, as is often the case, by a combination of different factors).Stressed-out is commonly spelled without a hyphen, as stressed out.Example: During the week of final exams, the library is filled with stressed-out students frantically trying to study.