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overwrought
adjective as in exhausted and excited
Strongest match
Weak matches
- affected
- agitated
- all shook up
- beside oneself
- crazy
- distracted
- emotional
- excitable
- fired-up
- flipped-out
- freaked-out
- histrionic
- histrionical
- hot under collar
- hot-and-bothered
- hyper
- in a state
- nervous
- neurotic
- on edge
- overexcited
- overstrung
- overworked
- spent
- steamed up
- stirred
- strung-out
- tense
- tired
- uneasy
- unstrung
- uptight
- weary
- wired
- worked-up
- worn
- wound-up
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Example Sentences
On Thursday, for example, the New York Times reported that there had been a surge in children being hospitalized with covid-19, precisely the sort of thing that an admittedly overwrought parent doesn’t want to hear.
The condition and its ability to cause sudden death in agitated people is often the basis of officers’ claims that overwrought individuals had to be restrained with great force, for their own good.
The public and media are consumed with the overwrought judgement of every result.
That was the last time the band allowed tepid performances and overwrought production overwhelm an otherwise solid set of songs.
Cuse: At first, I was a little apprehensive about jumping into a genre that seemed really overdone and overwrought.
Her own records are exceptionally thoughtful, but in the context of pop radio, they can sometimes seem overwrought.
By now I'm so overwrought with chi's and fu's and kong's and kung's that my eyes have about crossed.
Finally, there was the Donald—who was vastly less overwrought than LaPierre but also vastly less coherent.
The effect was that of a bird of Paradise bringing balm to our overwrought nerves.
After his music lesson, or after having improvised for any length of time, he was invariably overwrought and excited.
He shrewdly suspected that the infinite peace of the landscape would prove the best tonic for her overwrought mind.
Was it not merely some illusion of my overwrought and distracted spirit?
The child was overwrought, and a sudden dread seized hold of her.
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On this page you'll find 76 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to overwrought, such as: frantic, affected, agitated, all shook up, beside oneself, and crazy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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