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| Main Entry: | tension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tightness |
| Synonyms: | balance, constriction, force, pressure, stiffness, strain, stress, astriction, rigidity, straining, stretching, tautness, tenseness, tensity |
| Antonyms: | relaxation, slack, limpness, looseness |
| Main Entry: | tension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental stress |
| Synonyms: | agitation, anxiety, apprehension, brunt, concern, discomfort, disquiet, hostility, jitters*, nerves, nervousness, pins and needles, pressure, restlessness, strain, suspense, uneasiness, worry, ants in pants, antsiness, bad feeling, edginess, jumps, nail-biting, shakes, unease, worriment |
| Antonyms: | calmness, ease, peace, relaxation, contentedness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | brunt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad end of a situation |
| Synonyms: | burden, force, impact, pressure, shock, strain, stress, tension, thrust, violence, full force |
| Main Entry: | effort |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | work, exertion |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, act, aim, application, aspiration, attempt, battle, crack*, creation, deed, discipline, drill, elbow grease*, endeavor, energy, enterprise, essay, exercise, feat, fling*, force, go*, industry, intention, job, labor, old college try*, power, product, production, pull, purpose, push, resolution, shot*, spurt, stab*, strain, stress, stretch, strife, striving, struggle, sweat, tension, toil, training, travail, trial, trouble, try, tug*, undertaking, venture, whack*, pains |
| Antonyms: | hesitation, idleness, laziness, inactivity, passivity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | electricity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | energized matter, power |
| Synonyms: | current, heat, juice*, light, service, spark, tension, AC, DC, electromagneticism, electron, galvanism, hot stuff, ignition, magneticism, utilities, voltage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | emergency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crisis, danger |
| Synonyms: | accident, climax, clutch*, compulsion, crossroad, crunch*, depression, difficulty, distress, exigency, extremity, fix, hole, impasse, juncture, misadventure, necessity, pass, pinch*, plight, predicament, pressure, push, quandary, scrape, squeeze, strait, tension, turning point, urgency, vicissitude, zero hour*, meltdown |
| Antonyms: | calm, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | insomnia |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inability to sleep soundly |
| Synonyms: | indisposition, restlessness, stress, tension, vigil, vigilance, wakefulness, insomnolence, sleeplessness |
| Antonyms: | sleep |
| Main Entry: | intensity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | passion, force |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, anxiety, ardor, concentration, depth, earnestness, emotion, emphasis, energy, excess, excitement, extreme, extremity, fanaticism, ferment, ferocity, fervor, fire, force, fury, keenness, magnitude, might, nervousness, potency, power, severity, strain, strength, tension, vehemence, vigor, violence, volume, deepness, ferociousness, fervency, fierceness, forcefulness, high pitch, intenseness, sharpness, tenseness, weightiness, wildness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, dullness, laziness, lethargy, moderation, inactivity |
| Main Entry: | nerves |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme anxiety |
| Synonyms: | hysteria, imbalance, irritation, nervousness, strain, stress, tension, fretfulness, neurasthenia, sleeplessness, tenseness |
| Antonyms: | calm, coolness |
| Main Entry: | nervousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anxious state |
| Synonyms: | agitation, anger, animation, delirium, discomfiture, disquiet, disquietude, flap*, fluster*, fuss*, impatience, jitters*, perturbation, sensitivity, stage fright, stimulation, stress, tension, timidity, to-do*, turbulence, uneasiness, worry, all-overs, butterflies, cold sweat, creeps, dithers, excitability, feverishness, fidgets, jumps, moodiness, neurasthenia, neuroticism, quivers, shakes, tizzy, touchiness, trembles, tremulousness, willies |
| Antonyms: | calm, calmness, collectedness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | propulsion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | force |
| Synonyms: | drive, effort, energy, impulse, momentum, muscle, power, pressure, punch, push, speed, steam, strength, stress, tension, thrust, velocity, full head of steam, horsepower |
| Main Entry: | suspense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anticipation |
| Synonyms: | anxiety, apprehension, confusion, dilemma, doubt, eagerness, expectancy, expectation, hesitancy, hesitation, impatience, indecision, insecurity, tension, uncertainty, wavering, chiller, cliff-hanger, cloak and dagger, grabber, indecisiveness, irresolution, page-turner, perplexity, potboiler, thriller |
| Antonyms: | knowledge |
| Main Entry: | unrest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of agitation; disturbance |
| Synonyms: | altercation, anarchy, annoyance, anxiety, bother, chagrin, change, confusion, contention, controversy, crisis, debate, disaffection, discontent, discord, disease, disquiet, dissatisfaction, dissension, distress, dither*, ennui, grief, insurrection, irritation, malaise, mortification, perturbation, protest, quarrel, rebellion, restlessness, sedition, sorrow, strife, tension, trouble, tumult, turmoil, uneasiness, uproar, upset, vexation, worry, bickering, moodiness, perplexity, tizzy, unease |
| Antonyms: | calm, harmony, peace, rest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | breaking point |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme tension |
| Synonyms: | tension, overextension, overstrain, snapping point, spreading too thin |
| Main Entry: | cold war |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enmity without hostilities |
| Synonyms: | antagonism, rivalry, tension, one upsmanship |
| Antonyms: | hot war |
| Main Entry: | alarm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling of sudden fear |
| Synonyms: | anxiety, apprehension, cold feet*, consternation, dismay, distress, dread, fright, horror, nervousness, panic, scare, strain, stress, tension, terror, trepidation, uneasiness, unease |
| Antonyms: | assurance, calmness, composure, confidence, peace, repose, security, quietness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | balance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | equilibrium |
| Synonyms: | antithesis, correspondence, counterbalance, equity, equivalence, evenness, hang, harmony, parity, proportion, symmetry, tension, even-steven, stasis |
| Antonyms: | disproportion, imbalance, instability |
| Main Entry: | disagreement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dispute, quarrel |
| Synonyms: | altercation, animosity, antagonism, argument, breach, break, clash, clashing, conflict, contention, contest, controversy, debate, difference, discord, dissent, dissidence, division, feud, fight, friction, hassle, hostility, ill will, jarring, misunderstanding, opposition, rupture, spat, split, squabble, strife, tension, variance, vendetta, words, wrangle, atmospherics, bickering, cross-purposes, disunion, disunity, divisiveness, falling out, ill feeling |
| Antonyms: | acquiescence, agreement, harmony, peace |
| Main Entry: | force |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical energy, power |
| Synonyms: | arm, brunt, clout, coercion, compulsion, conscription, draft, duress, effort, enforcement, extortion, fury, impact, impetus, impulse, might, momentum, muscle, potency, potential, pressure, punch, push, sinew, sock*, speed, steam, stimulus, strain, strength, stress, stuff*, tension, trouble, velocity, vigor, violence, constrait, dynamism, exaction, full head of steam, horsepower, pains, pow, strong arm, subjection, what it takes |
| Antonyms: | weakness, powerlessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pressure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical force, weight |
| Synonyms: | burden, compression, encumbrance, heaviness, load, mass, shear, squeeze, strain, strength, stress, tension, thrust, compressing, crushing, squeezing |
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