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напряжённый — meaning in English

napryazhyonnyy

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English meaning

  • arduous adjective Requiring great effort or endurance; difficult and tiring.
  • demanding adjective Requiring a lot of effort, skill, or patience.
  • intense adj Extremely strong, forceful, or extreme in degree.
  • laborious adj Requiring a great deal of physical effort; tiring and hard work.
  • stressed adj Feeling mental or emotional strain.
  • stressful adj Causing worry or strain; mentally or emotionally demanding.
  • strict adj Demanding that rules be followed exactly, with little tolerance for exceptions.
  • suspenseful adj Full of tension and uncertainty about what will happen next.
  • taut adj Pulled or stretched tight, with no slack.
  • tense adjective Feeling or showing stress, anxiety, or strain; not relaxed.
  • uptight adj Overly strict, anxious, or rigid about rules and behaviour; unable to relax.

Senses

напряжённый is used for these senses in English:

  • arduous Needing or using up much energy; testing powers of endurance.
  • climacteric Critical or crucial; decisive. [from 17th c.]
  • demanding Requiring much endurance, strength, or patience.
  • intense (also, figurative) Under tension; tightly drawn; strained, stressed, tense.
  • laborious Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.
  • stressed Suffering stress (either physical or mental).
  • stressed (phonetics) Having a stress or accent.
  • stressful Irritating; causing stress.

demanding — full definition

  1. adjective Requiring a lot of effort, skill, or patience.
  2. adjective Expecting a high standard from others and not easily satisfied.

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