All overwrought synonyms
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O o adj overwrought
- fulminant β occurring suddenly and with great intensity or severity; fulminating.
- hacked β to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
- hammy β characteristic of a person who overacts.
- butterflies β tremors in the stomach region due to nervousness
- kitschy β something of tawdry design, appearance, or content created to appeal to popular or undiscriminating taste.
- grossed out β without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like (opposed to net2. ): gross earnings; gross sales.
- feverish β having fever.
- affected β If you describe someone's behaviour as affected, you disapprove of the fact that they behave in an unnatural way that is intended to impress other people.
- in state β to put or place in a certain state or position, as in an office; install.
- frantic β desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
- distraught β distracted; deeply agitated.
- nervous β highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive: to become nervous under stress.
- in a state β distraught
- hyper β overexcited; overstimulated; keyed up.
- flasher β a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
- aflame β If something is on fire, you can say it is aflame.
- flowery β covered with or having many flowers.
- disgusted β to cause loathing or nausea in.
- in a stew β agitated, flustered
- labored β of or relating to workers, their associations, or working conditions: labor reforms.
- corybantic β frenzied; agitated; unrestrained.
- convulsive β A convulsive movement or action is sudden and cannot be controlled.
- worried β having or characterized by worry; concerned; anxious: Their worried parents called the police.
- carried away β to take or support from one place to another; convey; transport: He carried her for a mile in his arms. This elevator cannot carry more than ten people.
- madding β mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented.
- frenetic β frantic; frenzied.
- bundle of nerves β a very nervous person
- hysteric β Usually, hysterics. a fit of uncontrollable laughter or weeping; hysteria.
- anxious β If you are anxious to do something or anxious that something should happen, you very much want to do it or very much want it to happen.
- like a chicken with its head cut off β (Idiomatic) In a frantic, disorganized manner.
- beside oneself β If you are beside yourself with anger or excitement, you are extremely angry or excited.
- hysterical β of, relating to, or characterized by hysteria.
adjective overwrought
- euphuistic β Of or pertaining to euphuism.
- eruptive β Of, relating to, or formed by volcanic activity.
- hotblooded β Spirited, rash, reckless.
- excited β awakened
- overanxious β excessively anxious.
- wrecker β a person or thing that wrecks.
- crazed β Crazed people are wild and uncontrolled, and perhaps insane.
- obsessive β being, pertaining to, or resembling an obsession: an obsessive fear of illness.
- laboured β productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- emotional β Of or relating to a person's emotions.
- detonative β (of an explosive, or ordnance) That is liable to detonate spontaneously.
- overestimated β Simple past tense and past participle of overestimate.
- explosive β Able or likely to shatter violently or burst apart, as when a bomb explodes.
- neurotic β pertaining to the nerves or to nerve disease; neural: no longer in technical use.
- zonkers β Plural form of zonker.