Exact Match:
- overstrung
- too tightly strung; "an overstrung archery bow"
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- frightened
collapse - made afraid; "the frightened child cowered in the corner"; "too shocked and scared to move" related words >
- affrighted,
- aghast,
- alarmed,
- alerted,
- all nerves,
- anxious,
- apprehensive,
- aroused,
- consternated,
- daunted,
- dismayed,
- disquieted,
- edgy,
- excitable,
- fearful,
- high-strung,
- in a fright,
- in a funk,
- irritable,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- overstrung,
- panicky,
- scared,
- scary,
- startled,
- terrified,
- uneasy
- all nerves,
- antsy,
- antsy-pantsy,
- anxious,
- apprehensive,
- breathless,
- chafing,
- eager,
- edgy,
- excitable,
- excited,
- fearful,
- fretful,
- fretting,
- frightened,
- hasty,
- high-strung,
- hopped-up,
- impatient,
- impetuous,
- in a lather,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- in suspense,
- irritable,
- keyed-up,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on tenterhooks,
- on tiptoe,
- overstrung,
- panicky,
- quivering,
- restive,
- restless,
- squirming,
- squirmy,
- taut,
- tense,
- uneasy,
- unpatient,
- unquiet,
- with bated breath,
- with muscles tense
- agitable,
- all nerves,
- apprehensive,
- edgy,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- explosive,
- fearful,
- fidgety,
- frightened,
- goosey,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- highly emotional,
- hypersensitive,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- mettlesome,
- miffy,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- oversensitive,
- overstrung,
- panicky,
- perturbable,
- prickly,
- sensitive,
- skittish,
- spooky,
- startlish,
- taut,
- temperamental,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- ticklish,
- tight,
- touchy,
- twittery,
- uneasy,
- unrelaxed,
- unrestful,
- uptight,
- volcanic
- panicky
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- thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation; "became panicky as the snow deepened"; "felt panicked before each exam"; "trying to keep back the panic-stricken crowd"; "the terrified horse bolted" related words >
- afraid,
- all nerves,
- apprehensive,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- daunted,
- dismayed,
- edgy,
- excitable,
- fainthearted,
- fearful,
- frightened,
- funking,
- funky,
- henhearted,
- high-strung,
- in a panic,
- intimidated,
- irritable,
- lily-livered,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mousy,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- overstrung,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panic-stricken,
- panic-struck,
- panicked,
- pigeonhearted,
- rabbity,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- soft,
- timid,
- timorous,
- uneasy,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- white-livered,
- yellow
- edgy
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- being in a tense state related words >
- agitable,
- all nerves,
- antsy,
- antsy-pantsy,
- anxious,
- apprehensive,
- breathless,
- chafing,
- combustible,
- eager,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- excited,
- explosive,
- fearful,
- fretful,
- fretting,
- frightened,
- hasty,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- hopped-up,
- impatient,
- impetuous,
- in a lather,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- mettlesome,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- overstrung,
- panicky,
- perturbable,
- prickly,
- restive,
- restless,
- sensitive,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- squirming,
- squirmy,
- startlish,
- touchy,
- uneasy,
- unpatient,
- unquiet,
- uptight,
- volatile,
- volcanic
- apprehensive
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- in fear or dread of possible evil or harm; "apprehensive for one's life"; "apprehensive of danger"
- mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc; "apprehensive about her job"; "not used to a city and worried about small things"; "felt apprehensive about the consequences"
- quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne related words >
- afraid,
- agitated,
- alive,
- all nerves,
- all-knowing,
- all-overish,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apperceptive,
- appercipient,
- apprehending,
- awake,
- aware,
- bothered,
- cognizant,
- comprehending,
- concerned,
- conscious,
- disquieted,
- disturbed,
- edgy,
- excitable,
- fearful,
- foreboding,
- frightened,
- high-strung,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- in suspense,
- insightful,
- intelligent,
- irritable,
- keyed-up,
- knowing,
- knowledgeable,
- mindful,
- misgiving,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- omniscient,
- on edge,
- on tenterhooks,
- on tiptoe,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- overstrung,
- panicky,
- perceptive,
- percipient,
- perspicacious,
- perturbed,
- prehensile,
- qualmish,
- qualmy,
- quivering,
- sagacious,
- sensible,
- sentient,
- shrewd,
- solicitous,
- strained,
- suspenseful,
- taut,
- tense,
- troubled,
- understanding,
- uneasy,
- ware,
- wise,
- with bated breath,
- with muscles tense,
- witting,
- zealous
- excitable
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- easily excited
- capable of responding to stimuli related words >
- agitable,
- all nerves,
- apprehensive,
- bearish,
- bitchy,
- cankered,
- cantankerous,
- churlish,
- combustible,
- crabbed,
- cranky,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crusty,
- cussed,
- disagreeable,
- edgy,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- eruptive,
- explosive,
- fearful,
- feisty,
- feverish,
- fidgety,
- fractious,
- frightened,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- hot-blooded,
- huffish,
- huffy,
- hysterical,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- jumpy,
- mean,
- mercurial,
- mettlesome,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- ornery,
- overstrung,
- panicky,
- perturbable,
- perverse,
- prickly,
- quick-tempered,
- restive,
- restless,
- sensitive,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- snappish,
- spiteful,
- spleeny,
- splenetic,
- startlish,
- temperamental,
- testy,
- touchy,
- ugly,
- uneasy,
- unstable,
- volatile,
- volcanic,
- waspish
- irritable
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- abnormally sensitive to a stimulus related words >
- aggressive,
- agitable,
- all nerves,
- allergic,
- anaphylactic,
- apprehensive,
- bad-tempered,
- bearish,
- bellicose,
- belligerent,
- bickering,
- bitchy,
- cankered,
- cantankerous,
- choleric,
- churlish,
- combative,
- crabbed,
- crabby,
- cranky,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crotchety,
- crusty,
- cussed,
- delicate,
- disagreeable,
- disputatious,
- divisive,
- dyspeptic,
- edgy,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- eristic,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- explosive,
- factional,
- factious,
- fearful,
- feisty,
- fractious,
- fretful,
- frightened,
- goosy,
- grouchy,
- gruff,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- huffish,
- huffy,
- hyperesthetic,
- hyperpathic,
- hypersensitive,
- ill-humored,
- ill-tempered,
- impatient,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- itchy,
- litigious,
- mean,
- mettlesome,
- moody,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- ornery,
- overrefined,
- oversensible,
- oversensitive,
- overstrung,
- overtender,
- panicky,
- partisan,
- passible,
- peevish,
- perturbable,
- perverse,
- pettish,
- petulant,
- pindling,
- polarizing,
- polemic,
- prickly,
- pugnacious,
- quarrelsome,
- querulous,
- raspy,
- refined,
- responsive,
- sensitive,
- short-tempered,
- shrewish,
- skittish,
- snappish,
- snappy,
- spiteful,
- spleeny,
- splenetic,
- startlish,
- supersensitive,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- temperamental,
- tender,
- testy,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- ticklish,
- touchy,
- ugly,
- uneasy,
- volcanic,
- waspish,
- whiny,
- wrangling
- nervy
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- showing or requiring courage and contempt of danger; "the nervy feats of mountaineers" related words >
- agitated,
- all nerves,
- apprehensive,
- beefy,
- biggety,
- bluff,
- bold,
- bouncing,
- brash,
- bulldoggish,
- cheeky,
- chutzpadik,
- cocky,
- contemptuous,
- crusty,
- derisive,
- discomposed,
- disquieted,
- disrespectful,
- disturbed,
- doughty,
- edgy,
- excitable,
- excited,
- facy,
- fearful,
- feverish,
- fidgety,
- flip,
- flippant,
- flurried,
- flustered,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- forcy,
- forward,
- fresh,
- frightened,
- full-blooded,
- full-strength,
- gally,
- game,
- gamy,
- goosey,
- gratuitous,
- gritty,
- gutsy,
- gutty,
- hale,
- hard,
- hard as nails,
- hardy,
- hearty,
- hefty,
- high-strung,
- husky,
- impertinent,
- impudent,
- iron-hard,
- irritable,
- jerky,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- lusty,
- malapert,
- mettlesome,
- mighty,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- obstinate,
- on edge,
- overstrung,
- panicky,
- pert,
- pertinacious,
- perturbed,
- plucky,
- potent,
- powerful,
- puissant,
- red-blooded,
- resolute,
- restive,
- restless,
- robust,
- robustious,
- rude,
- ruffled,
- rugged,
- sassy,
- saucy,
- shaken,
- shaken up,
- smart,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- spirited,
- spiritful,
- spooky,
- spunky,
- stalwart,
- steely,
- stirred up,
- stout,
- strapping,
- strong,
- strong as brandy,
- strong as strong,
- strong-willed,
- sturdy,
- tenacious,
- tense,
- tough,
- troubled,
- troublous,
- turbulent,
- twitchy,
- twittery,
- uncalled-for,
- uneasy,
- unpeaceful,
- unquiet,
- unrestful,
- upset,
- uptight,
- vigorous,
- wise-ass
- uneasy
collapse
- relating to bodily unease that causes discomfort
- lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance; "farmers were uneasy until rain finally came"; "uneasy about his health"; "gave an uneasy laugh"; "uneasy lies the head that wears the crown"; "an uneasy coalition government"; "an uneasy calm"; "an uneasy silence fell on the group"
- not affording rest; "spent a restless night"; "fell into an uneasy sleep" related words >
- abashed,
- afflicted,
- agitated,
- all nerves,
- all-overish,
- ambiguous,
- anguished,
- antsy,
- antsy-pantsy,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- beefing,
- bellyaching,
- beset,
- bitching,
- borderline,
- bored,
- bothered,
- breathless,
- careful,
- cast down,
- chafing,
- chagrined,
- chapfallen,
- cheerless,
- complaining,
- complaintful,
- concerned,
- confused,
- crabbing,
- crabby,
- cranky,
- croaking,
- depressed,
- disappointed,
- discomfited,
- discomforted,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- discontented,
- disgruntled,
- disgusted,
- displeased,
- disquieted,
- dissatisfied,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- doubtable,
- eager,
- edgy,
- embarrassed,
- envious,
- excitable,
- excited,
- faultfinding,
- fearful,
- feverish,
- fidgety,
- flurried,
- flustered,
- fluttery,
- foreboding,
- fretful,
- fretting,
- frightened,
- fussy,
- grim,
- griping,
- grouchy,
- grousing,
- growling,
- grumbling,
- hasty,
- high-strung,
- hopped-up,
- hung up,
- ill at ease,
- impatient,
- impetuous,
- in a lather,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- irritable,
- jittery,
- joyless,
- jumpy,
- malcontent,
- malcontented,
- misgiving,
- mortified,
- murmuring,
- muttering,
- nauseated,
- nauseous,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- on tenterhooks,
- out of countenance,
- out of humor,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- overstrung,
- panicky,
- peevish,
- perturbed,
- petulant,
- pleasureless,
- precarious,
- prey to malaise,
- put-out,
- put-upon,
- querulant,
- querulous,
- rebellious,
- repelled,
- resentful,
- restive,
- restless,
- revolted,
- ruffled,
- sad,
- shaken,
- shaken up,
- shaky,
- sickened,
- solicitous,
- squirming,
- squirmy,
- stirred up,
- strained,
- suffering angst,
- sulky,
- suspect,
- suspenseful,
- tense,
- troubled,
- troublous,
- turbulent,
- unaccepting,
- unaccommodating,
- uncertain,
- uncomfortable,
- unfulfilled,
- ungratified,
- unhappy,
- unpatient,
- unpeaceful,
- unquiet,
- unrestful,
- unsatisfied,
- unsettled,
- unsure,
- upset,
- uptight,
- whiny,
- worried,
- zealous
- fearful
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- experiencing or showing fear; "a fearful glance"; "fearful of criticism"
- timid by nature or revealing timidity; "timorous little mouse"; "in a timorous tone"; "cast fearful glances at the large dog"
- extremely distressing; "fearful slum conditions"; "a frightful mistake" related words >
- aflutter,
- afraid,
- aghast,
- agitated,
- alarmed,
- alarming,
- all nerves,
- all-overish,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- appalling,
- apprehensive,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- awing,
- baleful,
- bashful,
- bothered,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- chilling,
- concerned,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- daunted,
- daunting,
- deadly,
- deterrent,
- deterring,
- diffident,
- dire,
- direful,
- discomposed,
- disconcerting,
- discouraging,
- disgusting,
- disheartening,
- dismayed,
- dismaying,
- disquieted,
- disquieting,
- disturbed,
- dreadful,
- edgy,
- excitable,
- fainthearted,
- fear-inspiring,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- foreboding,
- formidable,
- frightened,
- frightening,
- frightful,
- funking,
- funky,
- ghastly,
- goosy,
- grim,
- grisly,
- gruesome,
- heinous,
- henhearted,
- hesitant,
- hideous,
- high-strung,
- horrendous,
- horrible,
- horrific,
- horrifying,
- howling,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- in fear,
- intimidated,
- irritable,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- lily-livered,
- loathsome,
- lurid,
- macabre,
- malign,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- misgiving,
- monstrous,
- mousy,
- nauseating,
- nauseous,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- on tenterhooks,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- overawing,
- overstrung,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- overwhelming,
- panic-prone,
- panic-stricken,
- panicky,
- perturbed,
- pigeonhearted,
- pusillanimous,
- rabbity,
- redoubtable,
- repugnant,
- repulsive,
- revolting,
- rousing,
- scared,
- scaring,
- scary,
- shaky,
- shivery,
- shocking,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- sinister,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- soft,
- solicitous,
- startling,
- startlish,
- strained,
- sublime,
- suspenseful,
- tense,
- terrible,
- terrific,
- terrified,
- terrifying,
- terror-stricken,
- thumping,
- timid,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- tremendous,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- troubled,
- uneasy,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- unspeakable,
- unwilling,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- whacking,
- white-livered,
- yellow,
- zealous
- nervous
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- easily agitated; "quick nervous movements"
- of or relating to the nervous system; "nervous disease"; "neural disorder" related words >
- acid,
- agitable,
- agitated,
- all nerves,
- all-overish,
- allergic,
- anaphylactic,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- bashful,
- biting,
- bothered,
- concerned,
- corrosive,
- cowardly,
- critical,
- cutting,
- delicate,
- difficult,
- diffident,
- discomposed,
- disquieted,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- driving,
- edgy,
- effective,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- excited,
- explosive,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- feverish,
- fidgety,
- flurried,
- flustered,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- foreboding,
- fretful,
- frightened,
- goosey,
- goosy,
- gutsy,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- hyperesthetic,
- hyperpathic,
- hypersensitive,
- imperative,
- impressive,
- in a dither,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- in a tizzy,
- in fear,
- incisive,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- itchy,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- mettlesome,
- misgiving,
- mordant,
- mousy,
- nerval,
- nerves on edge,
- nervy,
- neural,
- neurological,
- on edge,
- on tenterhooks,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- overrefined,
- oversensible,
- oversensitive,
- overstrung,
- overtender,
- panicky,
- passible,
- penetrating,
- perturbable,
- perturbed,
- piercing,
- poignant,
- powerful,
- prickly,
- punchy,
- querulous,
- rabbity,
- refined,
- responsive,
- restless,
- ruffled,
- scared,
- scary,
- sensational,
- sensitive,
- shaken,
- shaken up,
- shaky,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- sinewed,
- sinewy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- slashing,
- snappish,
- solicitous,
- spooky,
- startlish,
- stirred up,
- strained,
- striking,
- strong,
- strung out,
- supersensitive,
- suspenseful,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- telling,
- tender,
- tense,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- ticklish,
- timid,
- timorous,
- touchy,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trenchant,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- troubled,
- troublous,
- turbulent,
- twittery,
- uneasy,
- unpeaceful,
- unquiet,
- unrestful,
- upset,
- uptight,
- vigorous,
- vital,
- volatile,
- volcanic,
- waspish,
- worked up,
- worried,
- wrought up,
- zealous
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