strainful

English

Etymology

From strain +‎ -ful.

Adjective

strainful (comparative more strainful, superlative most strainful)

1. Full of strain; requiring or exacting great effort; strenuous; stressful.
   • 1986, Jerome Seymour Bruner, Jacqueline J. Goodnow, George A. Austin, A Study of Thinking:

     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.

   • 2002, Suzette Cote, Criminological theories:

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

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

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

Anagrams

• trainfuls, trainsful