Overwrought

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Excessively nervous or excited; agitated.
  • adj. Extremely elaborate or ornate; overdone: overwrought prose style.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. in a state of excessive nervousness, excitement, or anger; Extremely tense, anxious, or upset; filled with emotion, emotional; uneasy
  • adj. elaborate; overdone
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • past-participle. Wrought upon excessively; overworked.
  • past-participle. Extremely agitated or excited; overexcited; -- of people.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Worked too hard or too much.
  • Worked up or excited to excess; overexcited: as overwrought feelings, imagination, etc.
  • Worked all over; covered with decorative work: as, a garment overwrought with embroidered flowers.
  • Labored or elaborated to excess; overdone.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. deeply agitated especially from emotion
  • Equivalent
    agitated   
    Antonym
    calm    composed    uncovered    unadorned    austere    simple    collected    subdued    stark    modest   
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    Verb Stem
    overwork   
    Rhyme
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    Lot    Mayotte    Wat    begot    bought    brought    caught    distraught    fought    fraught   
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