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Synonyms for high-strung

  • adjective

Most common

nervous jittery jumpy nervy

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Adjective

1. Nervous — nervous; anxious; excited or excitable

nervous, jumpy, jittery, nervy, edgy, tense, highly-strung, uneasy, restive, up-tight, overstrung

Antonyms

imperturbable

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Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Nervous; anxious; excited or excitable.

Example sentences

  • nervous Waiting a long time for a friend makes me nervous.
  • jittery Tom didn't seem to be as jittery as Mary seemed to be.
  • jumpy Tom and Mary seemed a little jumpy, didn't they?

By length

4 letters
edgy2
5 letters
tense1, jumpy2, nervy2
6 letters
uneasy3
7 letters
nervous2, jittery3, restive2
10 letters
overstrung

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (edgy2 = 2 syllables).

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