Synonyms for Tense:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • tense.
  •conflicting (adjective)
  • warring,
  • dissident,
  • conflicting,
  • cacophonous,
  • hostile,
  • disharmonious,
  • contentious,
  • discordant,
  • raucous,
  • rowing,
  • harsh,
  • colliding,
  • clashing,
  • brawling,
  • differing,
  • feuding,
  • dissonant,
  • rioting,
  • bickering,
  • antipathetic,
  • dissenting,
  • Squabbling,
  • antagonistic,
  • loath,
  • clamoring.
  •dramatic (adjective)
  • Histrionical,
  • suspenseful,
  • Theatric,
  • expressive,
  • tragicomic,
  • sensational,
  • farcical.
  •edgy (adjective)
  • ex cited,
  • ex citable,
  • ex-citable,
  • excitable,
  • overstrung,
  • over-strung,
  • over strung,
  • ex-cited,
  • more overstrung,
  • most overstrung.
  •electric/electrical (adjective)
  • motor driven,
  • most juiced,
  • more motor-driven,
  • more electrical,
  • most motordriven,
  • more powerdriven,
  • more motordriven,
  • more power-driven,
  • most power-driven,
  • most voltaic,
  • most motor-driven,
  • power driven,
  • more motor driven,
  • ex-citing,
  • more power driven,
  • powerdriven,
  • most motor driven,
  • most powerdriven,
  • ex citing,
  • rousing,
  • more voltaic,
  • motordriven,
  • magnetic,
  • most power driven,
  • more juiced.
  •explosive (adjective)
  • un-stable,
  • ex plosive,
  • most convulsive,
  • most detonating,
  • at boiling point,
  • most eruptive,
  • ex-plosive,
  • un stable,
  • un controllable,
  • most detonative,
  • more eruptive,
  • un-stablest,
  • un stabler,
  • raging,
  • un-stabler,
  • more fulminating,
  • more detonating,
  • more convulsive,
  • un-controllable,
  • most fulminating,
  • more detonative,
  • most fulminant,
  • un stablest,
  • more fulminant.
  •fearful (adjective)
  • rabbity,
  • shrinking,
  • aflutter,
  • shaky,
  • goose-bumpy,
  • phobic,
  • weak-kneed,
  • in a dither,
  • running scared,
  • have cold feet,
  • timorous.
  •high-strung (adjective)
  • high strung,
  • highstrung.
  •histrionical (adjective)
  • THER,
  • thest.
  •ill (at ease) (adjective)
  • ill.
  •ill at ease (adjective)
  • on tenterhooks,
  • out of place,
  • self-conscious,
  • on pins and needles,
  • unrelaxed.
  •impressionable (adjective)
  • sensitive.
  •irritable (adjective)
  • out of humor,
  • ill-humored,
  • oversensitive,
  • grumbling,
  • bearish,
  • huffy,
  • irritable,
  • easily offended,
  • Fretting.
  •jittery (adjective)
  • more spooked,
  • more trembling,
  • most trembling,
  • most spooked.
  •jumpy (adjective)
  • more unrestful,
  • most unrestful,
  • un-restful,
  • un restful.
  •nerve-racking (adjective)
  • dis-quieting,
  • more aggravating,
  • most aggravating,
  • most stressful,
  • nerve racking,
  • more stressful,
  • nerveracking,
  • ex asperating,
  • dis quieting,
  • more exasperating,
  • ex-asperating,
  • most exasperating,
  • up setting,
  • up-setting.
  •nervous (adjective)
  • up-set,
  • dis tressed,
  • more ruffled,
  • unstrung,
  • un strung,
  • most flustered,
  • more flustered,
  • most ruffled,
  • un-strung,
  • more nervous,
  • dis-tressed.
  •overworked (adjective)
  • over-worked,
  • over loaded,
  • most stressed,
  • over taxed,
  • most overloaded,
  • more overloaded,
  • most overburdened,
  • more overtaxed,
  • more overburdened,
  • most overtaxed,
  • over worked,
  • over burdened,
  • over-burdened,
  • over-loaded,
  • more stressed,
  • overburdened,
  • over-taxed.
  •overwrought (adjective)
  • strung-out,
  • over-wrought,
  • freaked-out,
  • hot-and-bothered,
  • hyper,
  • fired-up,
  • keyed-up,
  • steamed up,
  • over-excited,
  • all shook up,
  • in a state,
  • hot under collar,
  • worked-up,
  • wound-up.
  •restive (adjective)
  • un yielding,
  • un-yielding.
  •sensitive (adjective)
  • touchy feely,
  • sensile,
  • Susceptive,
  • hypersensitive,
  • easily affected,
  • tuned in,
  • sensatory,
  • sensory,
  • emotionable,
  • reactive,
  • turned on to,
  • supersensitive.
  •stiff (adjective)
  • un-graceful,
  • be-numbed,
  • more numbed,
  • unsupplest,
  • more cemented,
  • more arthritic,
  • more contracted,
  • most jelled,
  • more immalleable,
  • most annealed,
  • more jelled,
  • more chilled,
  • un bending,
  • most buckram,
  • more buckram,
  • in-elastic,
  • most chilled,
  • most numbed,
  • steelier,
  • most congealed,
  • most indurate,
  • most thickened,
  • in compliant,
  • most starched,
  • more unflexible,
  • most cemented,
  • un supplest,
  • more impliable,
  • un graceful,
  • more annealed,
  • be numbed,
  • in-compliant,
  • most immalleable,
  • in elastic,
  • more rheumatic,
  • more congealed,
  • more thickened,
  • un-suppler,
  • steeliest,
  • un-supplest,
  • most rheumatic,
  • un-bending,
  • un-supple,
  • un-flexible,
  • unsupple,
  • unsuppler,
  • creakiest,
  • un supple,
  • un flexible,
  • more solidified,
  • stiff as board,
  • most solidified,
  • most contracted,
  • most impliable,
  • un suppler,
  • most unflexible,
  • more starched,
  • more indurate,
  • most arthritic,
  • Immalleable.
  •strained (adjective)
  • wrecker,
  • hard put,
  • unglued,
  • strung out,
  • nervous wreck,
  • at end of rope.
  •taut (adjective)
  • more flexed,
  • more stretched,
  • most stretched,
  • most flexed.
  •tight (adjective)
  • close-fitting,
  • secure,
  • skintight,
  • dense,
  • snug,
  • rigid,
  • firm.
  •tight, stretched (adjective)
  • close.
  •twitchy (adjective)
  • a bundle nerves.
  •under stress, pressure (adjective)
  • moving,
  • queasy,
  • hung up,
  • uneasy,
  • fluttery,
  • beside oneself,
  • shot,
  • unnerved,
  • overanxious,
  • unquiet,
  • Clutched,
  • shot to pieces,
  • anxious,
  • choked,
  • bundle of nerves,
  • wreck,
  • white knuckled,
  • up the wall,
  • moved,
  • in a tizzy.
  •uneasy (adjective)
  • dis-mayed,
  • more anguished,
  • on qui vive,
  • more dismayed,
  • harassed,
  • un quiet,
  • un easy,
  • dis mayed,
  • most harassed,
  • un easier,
  • un-easier,
  • more tormented,
  • un quietest,
  • un easiest,
  • most vexed,
  • most anguished,
  • un quieter,
  • un-easy,
  • most palpitant,
  • un-quieter,
  • more vexed,
  • un-easiest,
  • un-quiet,
  • more harassed,
  • most dismayed,
  • more palpitant,
  • un-quietest,
  • most tormented.
  •unsettled (adjective)
  • un-predictable,
  • un steady,
  • most unpeaceful,
  • most unnerved,
  • un settled,
  • un predictable,
  • most changeful,
  • un steadier,
  • more rattled,
  • un peaceful,
  • un-balanced,
  • un nerved,
  • un-settled,
  • most shifting,
  • un-steadiest,
  • most rattled,
  • un-steadier,
  • un-peaceful,
  • more unpeaceful,
  • more unnerved,
  • dis-orderly,
  • un-nerved,
  • mutable,
  • more changeful,
  • in-constant,
  • un steadiest,
  • dis orderly.
  •uptight (adjective)
  • oldfashioned,
  • old fashioned,
  • on the defensive.
  •worried (adjective)
  • most clutched,
  • more clutched,
  • worried stiff.

• n.

  •
  • on edge,
  • frightened,
  • alarmed.
  •
  • severe,
  • restless,
  • alarming,
  • serious,
  • grave.
  •
  • copula,
  • conjugation,
  • DO,
  • aspect,
  • auxiliary,
  • the future,
  • the first person,
  • auxiliary verb,
  • the active,
  • the conditional.
  •
  • muscular,
  • motor,
  • pull,
  • cartilaginous,
  • contract,
  • overstretched,
  • spasm,
  • reflex,
  • relax,
  • smooth.
  •
  • steady.
  •cliff-hanging (noun)
  • cliff-hanging.
  •constricted (noun)
  • constricted.
  •drawn (noun)
  • drawn.
  •electric (noun)
  • electric.
  •fraught (noun)
  • fraught.
  •highly strung (noun)
  • highly strung.
  •in suspense (noun)
  • in suspense.
  •irritable (noun)
  • touchy.
  •isotonic (noun)
  • isotonic.
  •nail-biting (noun)
  • nail-biting.
  •nervy (noun)
  • nervy.
  •pumped (noun)
  • pumped.
  •pumped-up (noun)
  • pumped-up.
  •suspensive (noun)
  • suspensive.
  •taut (noun)
  • taut.
  •tense (noun)
  • wired,
  • wound up.

• v.

  •constrict (verb)
  • astringes,
  • re strain,
  • re strains,
  • re-strain,
  • re-strained,
  • re straining,
  • re-straining,
  • draws together,
  • Astringed,
  • re strained,
  • drew together,
  • re strict,
  • re-strains,
  • re-strict.
  •contact (verb)
  • strain.
  •grip (verb)
  • clench.
  •hunch (verb)
  • scrooching down,
  • scrooched down,
  • drawing in,
  • scrooches down,
  • draws in.
  •stiffen (verb)
  • be numbing,
  • be numb,
  • be numbs,
  • be-numbs,
  • be-numbing,
  • be-numb.
  •stress (verb)
  • putting on trial,
  • dis tending,
  • dis tends,
  • dis-tending,
  • over done,
  • over extend,
  • tensing up,
  • over-did,
  • dis-tends,
  • dis tended,
  • puts traction,
  • dis tend,
  • over did,
  • tenses up,
  • over-extended,
  • putting trial,
  • over extends,
  • dis-tend,
  • put trial,
  • over-extends,
  • putting traction,
  • overextends,
  • puts in traction,
  • over does,
  • put traction,
  • puts on trial,
  • over-extending,
  • over extending,
  • over extended,
  • puts trial,
  • putting in traction,
  • dis-tended,
  • over-extend,
  • over doing,
  • over-doing,
  • over-does,
  • overextending.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • worrying,
  • stressful,
  • neurotic,
  • nerve-wracking,
  • panicky,
  • overprotective,
  • fretful,
  • paranoid,
  • disconcerting,
  • oppressive,
  • suspicious,
  • ominous,
  • pressured,
  • hesitant,
  • tensed up,
  • half-crazed,
  • angst-ridden,
  • wary,
  • frantic,
  • disturbed,
  • broody,
  • tauten,
  • agitated,
  • desperately,
  • daunting,
  • sobering,
  • apprehensive.
  •
  • stressed,
  • brooding,
  • knotted,
  • alarmist,
  • skittish,
  • niggling,
  • foreboding,
  • sickening,
  • gun-shy,
  • frightening,
  • fidgety.
  •
  • concerned.
  •
  • fixed.
  •
  • fast.
  •aroused
  • aroused,
  • excited.
  •disturbed
  • wrought-up.
  •nail-biting
  • Nail Biting.
  •nervous
  • edge.
  •tighten
  • rigidify,
  • rigidifying,
  • rigidified,
  • toughen.

Paraphrases for Tense:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    taut, uptight, strained.
  • Proper noun, singular
    strained.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    tensed.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    voltage, difficult, tensioning, strenuous, turbulent, anxious, soured, tensile, disordered, stressed, fragile, tough.
  • Noun, plural
    Temps.
  • Verb, past tense
    frightened, scared.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    intense, jittery, stressful, tight, high-strung, intensive, stretched, volatile, troubled, fraught, uneasy, edgy, jumpy.
  • Proper noun, singular
    tension, tensions.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    tension.

Antonyms for Tense:

• adj.

  • all
    lax, relaxed.
  • tight, stretched
    uncaring, limp, loose, calm, soft, laid-back, limpid, easy-going, slack.
  • under stress, pressure
    unworried, unafraid, composed, untroubled, happy.
  • Other antonyms:
    controlled, comfortable, springy, nerveless, flexible, resilient, pacific, hanging, confident, elastic, restful, self-controlled, self-confident, at ease, calming, supple, easy, stretchy, quiet, pliant, self-assured, sure, yielding.

Hypernym for Tense:

• n.

  • communication
    present tense, perfect, future tense, progressive tense, past tense, past, perfective, imperfect, perfect tense, perfective tense, present, imperfect tense, continuous tense, progressive, future, aorist.

Hyponym for Tense:

• n.

  • communication
    grammatical category, syntactic category.

• v.

  • change
    modify, change, alter.
  • contact
    tighten.