strainful

comparative more strainful · superlative most strainful

1. Full of strain; requiring or exacting great effort; strenuous; stressful.

   The first type of coping response changes the situation out of which the strainful experience arises.

   2004, Hamid R. Nemati, Christopher D. Barko, Organizational data mining

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   The general conclusion we wish to draw is a simple one. Certain strategies are less strainful than others in terms of the demands they place on memory and upon inference.

   1986, Jerome Seymour Bruner, Jacqueline J. Goodnow, George A. Austin, A Study of Thinking

   In developing inventories of strainful events, criminologists must keep in mind the fact that there may be important […]

   2002, Suzette Cote, Criminological theories