What is another word for strained?
760 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ stɹˈe͡ɪnd], [ stɹˈeɪnd], [ s_t_ɹ_ˈeɪ_n_d]Table of Contents
Similar words for strained:- all (adjective)
- contrived (adjective)
- drawn (adjective)
- exaggerated (adjective)
- far-fetched (adjective)
- forced, pretended (adjective)
- intense (adjective)
- labored (adjective)
- miserable (adjective)
- oblique (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- overworked (adjective)
- refined (adjective)
- sprained (adjective)
- stressed out (adjective)
- taut (adjective)
- taxed (adjective)
- tense (adjective)
- tight (adjective)
- uncomfortable (adjective)
- uneasy (adjective)
- unnatural (adjective)
- affected (noun)
- agonistic (noun)
- awkward (noun)
- forced (noun)
- laboured (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- strained (noun)
- other synonyms
- nectar
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Strained:
adj.
•all (adjective) •contrived (adjective)- more recherche,
- more manipulated,
- more affected,
- more unspontaneous,
- most recherche,
- over-done,
- most manipulated,
- over done,
- more elaborate,
- fakest,
- un-spontaneous,
- most unspontaneous,
- un spontaneous.
- most stressed,
- most harrowed,
- most sapped,
- more harassed,
- most harassed,
- harassed,
- more harrowed,
- more starved,
- more stressed,
- most pinched,
- more pinched,
- more sapped.
- caricatural,
- out of proportion,
- over-wrought,
- schmaltzy,
- highly colored,
- hyperbolic,
- sensational,
- overestimated,
- too-too,
- hammy,
- overkill.
- in-coherent,
- un-believable,
- un-convincing,
- in consequential,
- un-likelier,
- far fetched,
- un likely,
- illogical,
- in-credible,
- un believable,
- incredible,
- in coherent,
- in credible,
- un likeliest,
- un convincing,
- un-likeliest,
- hard swallow,
- un likelier,
- un-likely,
- in-consequential.
- in a state,
- at end of rope,
- false,
- unglued,
- wreck,
- uneasy,
- wired,
- hard put,
- choked,
- unrelaxed,
- stiff,
- taut,
- put,
- embarrassed,
- self-conscious,
- uptight.
- in-tensive,
- in tensive,
- in-tensest,
- in tensest,
- in-tenser,
- more all consuming,
- most all consuming,
- pro-found,
- all consuming,
- most all-consuming,
- more all-consuming,
- more intensified,
- most intensified,
- un duer,
- pro founder,
- in-tense,
- pro-founder,
- in tense,
- in tenser,
- un due,
- allconsuming,
- more allconsuming,
- un duest,
- un-duest,
- most allconsuming,
- un-duer,
- pro found,
- extra-ordinary,
- un-due.
- dis-contented,
- de solate,
- Racked,
- more hurting,
- most suffering,
- dis contented,
- pained,
- most agonized,
- down the mouth,
- ruthful,
- most hurting,
- de-solate,
- wounded,
- more anguished,
- dis tressed,
- more suffering,
- dis-tressed,
- more tormented,
- more tortured,
- more agonized,
- de-stroyed,
- most discontented,
- most anguished,
- more racked,
- down mouth,
- de stroyed,
- most tortured,
- on downer,
- most racked,
- most tormented.
- tight,
- drawn,
- farfetched,
- Taxed,
- overtaxed,
- fluttery,
- unspontaneous,
- far-fetched,
- stressed out,
- anguished,
- intense,
- Sprained,
- in pain,
- up the wall,
- overanxious,
- on the qui vive,
- recherche,
- wrecker,
- rough go,
- unconforming,
- refined,
- over-anxious,
- all-consuming,
- oblique,
- tensed,
- hyper,
- Overworked,
- unnatural,
- uncomfortable,
- stressful,
- in a tizzy,
- in turmoil,
- all nerves,
- strung out,
- bundle of nerves,
- nervous wreck,
- tightly drawn,
- hard to swallow,
- miserable,
- contrived,
- up set,
- labored,
- under stress,
- tense,
- weighted,
- shot to pieces,
- on a downer,
- exaggerated,
- palpitant,
- laborious,
- down in mouth,
- constrained,
- extra ordinary,
- tough job,
- white knuckled,
- keyed up.
- most overtaxed,
- over-burdened,
- over loaded,
- overburdened,
- more overloaded,
- over worked,
- over-loaded,
- more overtaxed,
- more overburdened,
- over taxed,
- most overloaded,
- over burdened,
- most overburdened,
- over-taxed,
- over-worked.
- more expurgated,
- re-fined,
- re fined,
- pro-cessed,
- dis-tilled,
- more clarified,
- pro cessed,
- more purified,
- more cleansed,
- most cleansed,
- most filtered,
- boiled down,
- most distilled,
- most aerated,
- more aerated,
- more distilled,
- more filtered,
- dis tilled,
- most clarified,
- most purified,
- most expurgated.
- more unnerved,
- un-quiet,
- up wall,
- more choked,
- ex cited,
- more clutched,
- more stressful,
- shot pieces,
- more shot,
- most clutched,
- more fluttery,
- nerveracking,
- un quietest,
- un-nerved,
- more overanxious,
- most choked,
- ex-cited,
- un-quietest,
- nerve racking,
- wreckest,
- more hyper,
- bundle nerves,
- most shot,
- up tight,
- unnerved,
- over anxious,
- most fluttery,
- up-tight,
- most stressful,
- un quiet,
- un quieter,
- in tizzy,
- most overanxious,
- un nerved,
- most unnerved,
- un-quieter.
- dis composed,
- most discomfited,
- un-comfortable,
- most vexed,
- selfconscious,
- more chafed,
- un comfortable,
- more discomposed,
- dis-quieted,
- most wracked,
- dis quieted,
- more wracked,
- more disquieted,
- dis-composed,
- more discomfited,
- most disquieted,
- most discomposed,
- ill ease,
- more galled,
- most chafed,
- self conscious,
- more vexed,
- most galled.
- most dismayed,
- in securest,
- in securer,
- un easiest,
- un-stable,
- more dismayed,
- dis mayed,
- un stablest,
- pre carious,
- dis-mayed,
- un-easy,
- in-securer,
- in secure,
- un easier,
- more palpitant,
- un settled,
- most palpitant,
- un stable,
- un stabler,
- pre-carious,
- in-securest,
- un-easiest,
- un-easier,
- un easy,
- on qui vive,
- in-secure,
- un-stablest,
- up-set,
- un-settled,
- un-stabler.
- in-sincere,
- un-usual,
- un conforming,
- makebelieve,
- most unconforming,
- un-canniest,
- in sincerer,
- un canny,
- un usual,
- more unconforming,
- un-cannier,
- super-natural,
- un-conforming,
- most put on,
- madeup,
- in-sincerest,
- most staged,
- more put on,
- most puton,
- more concocted,
- most imitation,
- in sincerest,
- more imitation,
- puton,
- un cannier,
- un-natural,
- more staged,
- un canniest,
- more put-on,
- in sincere,
- in-sincerer,
- super natural,
- most concocted,
- un accountable,
- un natural.
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- unsettling.
Other synonyms:
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- troubling,
- unwelcoming.
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- effortful,
- pokey,
- torturous,
- suffocating,
- cramped.
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- close.
- injured,
- hard-earned,
- bound,
- intension,
- bushed,
- fasten,
- phased,
- pretense,
- distressing,
- arduous,
- high-strung,
- misrepresented,
- unconvincing,
- Offered,
- stored,
- garbled,
- sorted,
- strain,
- slanted,
- tighten,
- antsy,
- hard,
- endeavoured,
- Doctored,
- hefty,
- sampled,
- Endeavored,
- calculated,
- biased,
- obligate,
- overwrought,
- coloured,
- wasted,
- branded,
- call in,
- hard-fought,
- noted,
- colored,
- stretched out,
- upsetting,
- highly strung,
- misgiving,
- perverted,
- Contrasted,
- reduce,
- uncordial,
- framed,
- nervousness,
- Disaccordant,
- contrite,
- drained,
- spend,
- lined,
- solicitous,
- traumatic,
- Overstrained,
- get tired,
- Provided,
- disfigured,
- grueling,
- Filtered,
- weary,
- broken,
- Pooped,
- fretful,
- Dribbled,
- Essayed,
- nervous,
- uneven,
- strenuous,
- afflict,
- out-of-the-way,
- knackered,
- distressed,
- pressed,
- Adjudicated,
- broke,
- patterned,
- rough,
- pretension,
- distant,
- feint,
- in a stew,
- prolonged,
- cool,
- in a pucker,
- jiggered,
- lengthened,
- implausible,
- deformed,
- fractured,
- questionable,
- contorted,
- tortured,
- typed,
- simulation,
- Raced,
- rhymed,
- dead-beat,
- edgy,
- emphasized,
- doubtful,
- funded,
- worried,
- accented,
- punishing,
- wrinkled,
- Wrenched,
- fraught,
- painful,
- contoured,
- run,
- formed,
- Sifted,
- oppressive,
- toilsome,
- tough,
- bothered,
- ungenial,
- tension,
- remote,
- Punctuated,
- whacked,
- frosty,
- hand on,
- weakened,
- fatigued,
- shocked,
- listless,
- compress,
- riddled,
- sounded,
- Falsified,
- squeeze,
- veined,
- voiced,
- Screened,
- unrealistic,
- disunited,
- Exerted,
- go over,
- jittery,
- attained,
- concerned,
- fake,
- Classed,
- suspenseful,
- gruelling,
- dragged out,
- Assayed,
- unfolded,
- mannered,
- Inventoried,
- stressed,
- interpreted,
- roll by,
- stiffen,
- tainted,
- birthed,
- put on,
- reduced,
- fearful,
- preposterous,
- gymnastic,
- combative,
- Tasked,
- stretched,
- herculean,
- chilly,
- unsociable,
- secure,
- distressful,
- handed,
- pulled,
- Broadened,
- factitious,
- bogus,
- tried,
- pinched,
- pressured,
- unharmonious,
- tautness,
- Boded,
- nerve-wracking,
- hard to believe,
- unbelievable,
- accomplished,
- hypocrisy,
- tuned,
- stemmed,
- Percolated,
- mock,
- inimical,
- overtired,
- Gained,
- fidgety,
- cracked,
- all in,
- Performed,
- Passed,
- troublesome,
- crushing,
- agitated,
- Spurted,
- languorous,
- Filtrated,
- Judged,
- crinkled,
- wearisome,
- disturbed,
- stiffener,
- obscure,
- unexpected,
- incompatible,
- enervated,
- biassed,
- Channelled,
- pretext,
- twisted,
- changed,
- pipelined,
- recondite,
- protracted,
- rigid,
- drawn-out,
- masquerade,
- ponderous,
- go through,
- Palestric,
- weak,
- troubled,
- distorted,
- blighted,
- exhausted,
- stretch,
- unpleasant,
- Rendered,
- Channeled,
- heavy,
- affectation,
- apart,
- zealous,
- permeated,
- trying,
- on tenterhooks,
- misquoted,
- Squeezed,
- inhospitable,
- Achieved,
- blooded,
- violated,
- dubious,
- warm,
- cold,
- haggard,
- facade,
- straining,
- put in,
- perturbed,
- feigned,
- pretended,
- tired,
- Coursed,
- backbreaking,
- onerous,
- dead,
- knocked out,
- icy,
- apprehensive,
- foreboding,
- disquieted,
- buggered,
- tenseness,
- jumpy,
- improbable,
- called,
- Sundered,
- figured,
- Themed,
- fantastic,
- cricked,
- emphasised,
- nerve-racking,
- plastic,
- worked up,
- Galloped,
- not natural,
- connotation,
- humbled,
- anxioused up,
- measured,
- go beyond,
- grieve,
- Accentuated,
- lethargic,
- anxious,
- Tightener,
- wearied,
- stilted,
- focused,
- switch over,
- Cabled,
- chill,
- in a flap,
- aired,
- styled,
- pressure,
- Carolled,
- straggling,
- disconnected,
- deception,
- wound up,
- utilise,
- stress,
- Unamiable,
- burdened,
- upset,
- Toiled,
- blow over,
- breezed,
- extended,
- all-overish,
- unlikely,
- furrowed,
- elongated,
- cooked,
- unfriendly,
- Examined,
- expanded,
- Fleshed,
- Carried,
- seamed,
- elaborate,
- beat,
- pureed,
- killing,
- spurious,
- covered,
- strung up,
- burdensome,
- deceit,
- fishy,
- tested,
- stocked,
- Struggled,
- contacted,
- attempted,
- sluggish,
- constrict,
- wear out,
- Prolongated,
- subjugated,
- on edge,
- sieved,
- graded,
- purified,
- Reached,
- uphill.
Paraphrases for Strained:
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Equivalence
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Proper noun, singular
tense.
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Proper noun, singular
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Independent
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Adjective
stretched, difficult, deadlocked, Stalled, taut, uptight, deteriorating, volatile, limited, high-strung, constrained, stumbling, strenuous, challenging, restricted.
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Verb, past participle
restrained, stressed, pressured, drained, attained, exacerbated, Degenerated, overstretched, aggravated, burdened, oversupplied, knackered, pressurized, afflicted, harmed, Jeopardized, diminished, Challenged, overloaded, hurt, impaired, impacted, minimized, mitigated, decreased, overtired, shortened, charged, escalated, tested, Worked, pressed, worsened, accomplished, experienced, tired, Curtailed, winded, wound, Liquidated, Underpinned, overburdened, saturated, prejudiced, encumbered, undermined, trusted, relaxed, Compromised, overwhelmed, wired, Borne, intended, worn, lessened, damaged, exhausted, Encountered, expired, Discounted, bereaved, blown, narrowed, Hampered, risen, Aimed, proved, proven, elapsed, geared, expanded, spent, designed, set, Tended, Whipped, depleted, confined, expended, Achieved, Piloted, Leaked, focused, engaged, taught, faced, Reached, capped, subdued, bounded, compounded, flooded, clogged, tried, stretched, reduced, lowered, Met, gone, cut, limited, tensed, constrained, restricted.
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Antonyms for Strained:
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adj.
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forced, pretended
genuine, relaxed, comfortable, easy-going, slack, easy, calm, laid-back, loose, unforced.
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Other antonyms:
impulsive, uncontrived, unfeigned, honest, unprompted, effortless, unconscious, authentic, realistic, right, bona fide, graceful, impromptu, true, smooth, unrehearsed, extemporaneous, spontaneous, unstudied, instinctive.
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forced, pretended
