What is another word for tense?
624 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ tˈɛns], [ tˈɛns], [ t_ˈɛ_n_s]Table of Contents
Similar words for tense:
- all (adjective)
- conflicting (adjective)
- dramatic (adjective)
- edgy (adjective)
- electric/electrical (adjective)
- explosive (adjective)
- fearful (adjective)
- high-strung (adjective)
- histrionical (adjective)
- ill (at ease) (adjective)
- ill at ease (adjective)
- impressionable (adjective)
- irritable (adjective)
- jittery (adjective)
- jumpy (adjective)
- nerve-racking (adjective)
- nervous (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- overworked (adjective)
- overwrought (adjective)
- restive (adjective)
- sensitive (adjective)
- stiff (adjective)
- strained (adjective)
- taut (adjective)
- tight (adjective)
- tight, stretched (adjective)
- twitchy (adjective)
- under stress, pressure (adjective)
- uneasy (adjective)
- unsettled (adjective)
- uptight (adjective)
- worried (adjective)
- cliff-hanging (noun)
- constricted (noun)
- drawn (noun)
- electric (noun)
- fraught (noun)
- highly strung (noun)
- in suspense (noun)
- irritable (noun)
- isotonic (noun)
- nail-biting (noun)
- nervy (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- pumped (noun)
- pumped-up (noun)
- suspensive (noun)
- taut (noun)
- tense (noun)
- constrict (verb)
- contact (verb)
- grip (verb)
- hunch (verb)
- stiffen (verb)
- stress (verb)
- other synonyms
- aroused
- disturbed
- nail-biting
- nervous
- other relevant words
- tighten
Synonyms for Tense:
adj.
• all (adjective) • 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.
- ex cited,
- ex citable,
- ex-citable,
- excitable,
- overstrung,
- over-strung,
- over strung,
- ex-cited,
- more overstrung,
- most overstrung.
- 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.
- 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.
- rabbity,
- shrinking,
- aflutter,
- shaky,
- goose-bumpy,
- phobic,
- weak-kneed,
- in a dither,
- running scared,
- have cold feet,
- timorous.
- ill.
- out of humor,
- ill-humored,
- oversensitive,
- grumbling,
- bearish,
- huffy,
- irritable,
- easily offended,
- Fretting.
- 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.
- up-set,
- dis tressed,
- more ruffled,
- unstrung,
- un strung,
- most flustered,
- more flustered,
- most ruffled,
- un-strung,
- more nervous,
- dis-tressed.
- all wound up,
- tight,
- under stress,
- nerve-racking,
- voltaic,
- juiced,
- electrical,
- on the qui vive,
- stiff as a board,
- eruptive,
- The,
- power-driven,
- rheumatic,
- explosive,
- at the boiling point,
- stiff,
- up set,
- ill at ease,
- changeful,
- creakier,
- arthritic,
- Impliable,
- steely,
- high-strung,
- detonative,
- Starched,
- nervous,
- twitchy,
- Unflexible,
- palpitant,
- Overworked,
- worried,
- buckram,
- in turmoil,
- Motor-driven,
- anguished,
- keyed up,
- strained,
- unpeaceful,
- overtaxed,
- edgy,
- fulminant,
- creaky,
- dramatic,
- restive,
- unsettled,
- fearful,
- a bundle of nerves,
- convulsive,
- jumpy,
- all nerves,
- jittery,
- tightly drawn,
- unrestful,
- uptight,
- overwrought.
- 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.
- 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.
- touchy feely,
- sensile,
- Susceptive,
- hypersensitive,
- easily affected,
- tuned in,
- sensatory,
- sensory,
- emotionable,
- reactive,
- turned on to,
- supersensitive.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
n.
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- on edge,
- frightened,
- alarmed.
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•
- copula,
- conjugation,
- DO,
- aspect,
- auxiliary,
- the future,
- the first person,
- auxiliary verb,
- the active,
- the conditional.
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•
- muscular,
- motor,
- pull,
- cartilaginous,
- contract,
- overstretched,
- spasm,
- reflex,
- relax,
- smooth.
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•
- steady.
- taut.
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.
- 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:
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- 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.
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- stressed,
- brooding,
- knotted,
- alarmist,
- skittish,
- niggling,
- foreboding,
- sickening,
- gun-shy,
- frightening,
- fidgety.
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•
- concerned.
-
•
- fixed.
-
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- fast.
- edge.
- drawing together,
- tense up,
- stress,
- overdo,
- Gels,
- candied,
- hunch,
- Starching,
- jellied,
- humping,
- overextended,
- strangulating,
- Jellying,
- gelled,
- stiffen,
- tensed,
- humped,
- tensing,
- steadied,
- firmed,
- gel,
- firming,
- overextend,
- Strangulated,
- astringe,
- steadying,
- put in traction,
- gelling,
- tighten,
- Caked,
- Candying,
- curdling,
- curdled,
- Astringing,
- constrict,
- strangulates,
- drew in,
- draw in,
- Caking,
- strangulate,
- scrooch down,
- put on trial,
- draw together,
- tenses.
Paraphrases for Tense:
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Equivalence
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Proper noun, singular
strained.
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Proper noun, singular
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Reverse Entailment
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Adjective
tensed.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
anxious, difficult, disordered, fragile, soured, strenuous, stressed, tensile, tough, turbulent, voltage, tensioning.
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Noun, plural
Temps.
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Verb, past tense
frightened, scared.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
edgy, fraught, high-strung, intense, intensive, jittery, jumpy, stressful, stretched, tight, troubled, uneasy, volatile.
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Noun, singular or mass
tension.
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Adjective
Hypernym for Tense:
n.
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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.
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communication
Hyponym for Tense:
n.
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communication
grammatical category, syntactic category.
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communication
v.
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contact
tighten.
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contact
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