strainful
adjEtymology From strain + -ful.
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Full of strain; requiring or exacting great effort; strenuous; stressful.
- 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:
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- 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: