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strainful en · ADJ

Etymology

From strain + -ful.

Meanings

1. Full of strain; requiring or exacting great effort; strenuous; stressful.
   • In developing inventories of strainful events, criminologists must keep in mind the fact that there may be important […] 2002, Suzette Cote, Criminological theories:
   • 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:
   • 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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