Definition for Strained:

• Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends.

Synonyms for Strained:

• adj.

  •effortful (adjective)
  • effortful.
  •forced, pretended (adjective)
  • labored,
  • unrelaxed,
  • taut,
  • uneasy,
  • farfetched,
  • artificial,
  • tense,
  • uncomfortable,
  • stiff,
  • tight,
  • wired,
  • constrained,
  • awkward,
  • difficult,
  • false,
  • self-conscious,
  • uptight,
  • unnatural.
  •improbable (adjective)
  • farfetched.

• n.

  •
  • insincere,
  • studied,
  • artificial.
  •
  • cool,
  • effortful,
  • contrived.
  •
  • strange,
  • cramped,
  • tight,
  • troubling,
  • uncomfortable,
  • claustrophobic.
  •forced (noun)
  • difficult.
  •strained (noun)
  • agonistic,
  • forced,
  • laboured,
  • labored,
  • awkward,
  • unnatural,
  • tense,
  • affected,
  • constrained.

• v.

  •intensified (verb)
  • intense.
  •purified (verb)
  • refined.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • exaggerated,
  • troubling,
  • Sprained,
  • uncomfortable,
  • contrived.
  •
  • cramped,
  • effortful.
  •
  • heavily,
  • jerky,
  • strange,
  • stinging,
  • claustrophobic.
  •
  • tight.
  •burdened
  • Taxed.
  •nectar
  • honey.
  •slanting
  • oblique.
  •Other relevant words:
  • insincere,
  • lined,
  • fantastic,
  • improbable,
  • on edge,
  • Operose,
  • listless,
  • disunited,
  • hefty,
  • Broadened,
  • stored,
  • humbled,
  • troubled,
  • injured,
  • drawn,
  • pressure,
  • sounded,
  • bothered,
  • plastic,
  • agitated,
  • misrepresented,
  • perverted,
  • protracted,
  • funded,
  • hand on,
  • styled,
  • pressed,
  • Sprained,
  • concerned,
  • jiggered,
  • Performed,
  • cool,
  • aired,
  • killing,
  • remote,
  • solicitous,
  • strenuous,
  • beat,
  • bushed,
  • dubious,
  • expanded,
  • jumpy,
  • Themed,
  • honey,
  • overwrought,
  • Achieved,
  • highly strung,
  • stiffener,
  • stretched,
  • biased,
  • Overstrained,
  • called,
  • stinging,
  • disquieted,
  • unbelievable,
  • constrict,
  • traumatic,
  • Inventoried,
  • nerve-wracking,
  • uncordial,
  • strain,
  • stress,
  • fake,
  • connotation,
  • Wrenched,
  • stiffen,
  • unrelaxed,
  • secure,
  • ponderous,
  • figured,
  • hard-earned,
  • contacted,
  • focused,
  • phased,
  • Assayed,
  • frosty,
  • nervous,
  • stressful,
  • stilted,
  • run,
  • Judged,
  • in a stew,
  • Sifted,
  • wearisome,
  • suspenseful,
  • troublesome,
  • unfriendly,
  • misgiving,
  • Endeavored,
  • Filtrated,
  • Rendered,
  • Essayed,
  • colored,
  • Doctored,
  • inimical,
  • covered,
  • stocked,
  • combative,
  • blow over,
  • switch over,
  • foreboding,
  • Prolongated,
  • oppressive,
  • warm,
  • Unamiable,
  • pretended,
  • dead-beat,
  • studied,
  • go through,
  • tight,
  • utilise,
  • chill,
  • tenseness,
  • Spurted,
  • zealous,
  • emphasized,
  • Tasked,
  • intension,
  • accented,
  • accomplished,
  • apprehensive,
  • violated,
  • overanxious,
  • high-strung,
  • distressed,
  • feigned,
  • slanted,
  • get tired,
  • sorted,
  • arduous,
  • mannered,
  • measured,
  • Cabled,
  • incompatible,
  • garbled,
  • tortured,
  • enervated,
  • Raced,
  • squeeze,
  • apart,
  • icy,
  • uphill,
  • put in,
  • fearful,
  • Adjudicated,
  • tired,
  • rough,
  • stressed,
  • blighted,
  • reduce,
  • recondite,
  • pretension,
  • tuned,
  • nervousness,
  • fraught,
  • toilsome,
  • Reached,
  • grueling,
  • buggered,
  • seamed,
  • burdened,
  • pressured,
  • Toiled,
  • afflict,
  • overtired,
  • worried,
  • contoured,
  • weak,
  • taut,
  • heavy,
  • patterned,
  • coloured,
  • fishy,
  • pureed,
  • backbreaking,
  • anxious,
  • Carolled,
  • bogus,
  • distressing,
  • implausible,
  • handed,
  • straining,
  • uneasy,
  • Fleshed,
  • reduced,
  • jittery,
  • all in,
  • jerky,
  • effortful,
  • uneven,
  • uncomfortable,
  • misquoted,
  • nerve-racking,
  • twisted,
  • shocked,
  • subjugated,
  • dead,
  • voiced,
  • spurious,
  • Tightener,
  • obscure,
  • straggling,
  • edgy,
  • farfetched,
  • distorted,
  • call in,
  • intense,
  • oblique,
  • mock,
  • unlikely,
  • noted,
  • cooked,
  • tautness,
  • haggard,
  • on tenterhooks,
  • distant,
  • languorous,
  • branded,
  • antsy,
  • cracked,
  • Pooped,
  • Disaccordant,
  • Classed,
  • pinched,
  • deformed,
  • wasted,
  • exaggerated,
  • ungenial,
  • pretense,
  • sluggish,
  • unfolded,
  • lengthened,
  • upset,
  • breezed,
  • Struggled,
  • grieve,
  • formed,
  • facade,
  • put on,
  • Dribbled,
  • whacked,
  • inhospitable,
  • weary,
  • purified,
  • sampled,
  • typed,
  • wrinkled,
  • attained,
  • Falsified,
  • changed,
  • gymnastic,
  • false,
  • lethargic,
  • hard to swallow,
  • claustrophobic,
  • tighten,
  • out-of-the-way,
  • worked up,
  • compress,
  • factitious,
  • deception,
  • veined,
  • drawn-out,
  • not natural,
  • calculated,
  • Squeezed,
  • Galloped,
  • unpleasant,
  • Filtered,
  • drained,
  • roll by,
  • punishing,
  • trying,
  • pretext,
  • laborious,
  • fasten,
  • hard,
  • doubtful,
  • Carried,
  • contrived,
  • contorted,
  • graded,
  • refined,
  • framed,
  • attempted,
  • prolonged,
  • Percolated,
  • wired,
  • hard-fought,
  • wearied,
  • strange,
  • dragged out,
  • wear out,
  • broke,
  • spend,
  • burdensome,
  • Provided,
  • wound up,
  • unconvincing,
  • Contrasted,
  • go beyond,
  • sieved,
  • feint,
  • onerous,
  • self-conscious,
  • Channeled,
  • endeavoured,
  • deceit,
  • furrowed,
  • far-fetched,
  • rigid,
  • pained,
  • Palestric,
  • disfigured,
  • tested,
  • tension,
  • interpreted,
  • Channelled,
  • disconnected,
  • rhymed,
  • bound,
  • cricked,
  • riddled,
  • simulation,
  • pulled,
  • fretful,
  • upsetting,
  • biassed,
  • artificial,
  • hard to believe,
  • knackered,
  • contrite,
  • Punctuated,
  • extended,
  • birthed,
  • tried,
  • gruelling,
  • Offered,
  • unexpected,
  • unsociable,
  • herculean,
  • stretched out,
  • tainted,
  • chilly,
  • blooded,
  • crushing,
  • unrealistic,
  • incredible,
  • go over,
  • stemmed,
  • tough,
  • difficult,
  • troubling,
  • knocked out,
  • affectation,
  • cold,
  • Sundered,
  • strung up,
  • heavily,
  • elongated,
  • tensed,
  • weakened,
  • Gained,
  • pipelined,
  • preposterous,
  • questionable,
  • disturbed,
  • Coursed,
  • crinkled,
  • stretch,
  • Accentuated,
  • stiff,
  • fidgety,
  • fatigued,
  • Taxed,
  • Boded,
  • masquerade,
  • unharmonious,
  • fractured,
  • distressful,
  • Exerted,
  • cramped,
  • Overworked,
  • Examined,
  • Screened,
  • elaborate,
  • Passed,
  • broken,
  • perturbed,
  • painful,
  • obligate,
  • exhausted,
  • uptight,
  • hypocrisy,
  • emphasised,
  • permeated.

Antonyms for Strained:

• adj.

  • forced, pretended
    genuine, relaxed, comfortable, easy-going, slack, easy, calm, laid-back, loose, unforced.
  • Other antonyms:
    extemporaneous, easy, true, authentic, realistic, right, unprompted, unconscious, bona fide, unforced, instinctive, graceful, impulsive, unfeigned, smooth, impromptu, uncontrived, unstudied, unrehearsed, effortless, spontaneous, honest.

Homophones for Strained:

• sweet wormwood, stromateid, sturnidae, saturniidae, stranded, saturniid, southern tai, storm window, strand, stromateidae, southernwood, steatornithidae.