Dictionary Definition
overwrought adj : deeply agitated especially from
emotion; "distraught with grief" [syn: distraught]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- (RP) IPA: /.v.t/
- (US) IPA: /.v.t/ AHD: /ōvər-rôt/
- (US): IPA: /.v.t/
- SAMPA: /%@U.v@."r\O:t/
Etymology
past participle of overworkAdjective
- in a state of excessive nervousness, excitement, or anger; Extremely tense, anxious, or upset; filled with emotion, emotional; uneasy
- elaborate; overdone
Synonyms
- (emotional): distraught, overwhelmed, distressed, agitated
- (elaborate): ornate, overdecorated
Antonyms
Translations
in a state of excessive nervousness, excitement,
or anger
- Finnish: kiihtynyt, hermostunut
elaborate; overdone
Related terms
- wrought
- (emotional): feverish, frenzied, heated, impassioned, overactive
- (elaborate): adorned, beautified, bedecked, bossed, chased, decked, decorated, dressed, embellished, emblazoned, embossed, embroidered, enhanced, enriched, extravagant, extreme, flamboyant, flashy, flounced, flowery, frilly, fringed, garlanded, garnished, gaudy, gilded, glitzy, heightened, intensified, laced, lacy, loud, ornamented, showy, spectacular, tawdry, trimmed, wreathed
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, aggrandized, amplified, arabesque, ballyhooed, baroque, bedizened, big-sounding,
busy, chichi, convoluted, declamatory, disproportionate,
distracted, edgy, elaborate, elegant, elevated, euphuistic, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fancy, fidgety, fine, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, florid, flowery, frantic, frenetic, frilly, fulsome, fussy, garish, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high-flowing,
high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, high-wrought, highfalutin, hyperbolic, in a dither, in a
tizzy, in a twitter, inflated, inkhorn, inordinate, jittery, jumpy, labored, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, luxuriant, luxurious, magnified, magniloquent, meretricious, moresque, nervous, on edge, ornate, orotund, ostentatious, overcome, overdone, overdrawn, overelaborate, overelegant, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overexcited, overgreat, overinvolved, overlabored, overlarge, overmastered, overpowered, overpraised, oversold, overstated, overstrained, overstressed, overwhelmed, overworked, pedantic, picturesque, pompous, pretentious, pretty-pretty,
prodigal, profuse, puffed, rhetorical, rich, rococo, sensational, sensationalistic,
sententious,
showy, sonorous, stilted, stretched, strung out,
superlative,
tall, tense, tortuous, touchy, touted, upset, uptight, wound
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