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nervous
Characterized by or having a disordered state of the nerves
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  1. Characterized by or having a disordered state of the nerves
  2. Of the nerves
  3. Marked by or having a feeling of unease or apprehension:
tense
(Linguistics) Enunciated with taut muscles, as the sound (ē) in keen.
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  1. (Linguistics) Enunciated with taut muscles, as the sound (ē) in keen.
  2. In a state of nervous tension or mental strain:
  3. Causing or characterized by nervous tension or mental strain:
impatient
Feeling or showing a lack of patience
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  1. Feeling or showing a lack of patience
  2. Restively eager or desirous; anxious:
  3. Expressing or produced by impatience:
Find another word for high-strung. In this page you can discover 5 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for high-strung, like: nervous, tense, impatient, excitable and restless.

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  • In general, a dog that is relatively calm is more likely to tolerate a costume than a high-strung animal.

  • In 1876 Clifford, a man of high-strung and athletic, but not robust, physique, began to fall into ill-health, and after two voyages to the South, died during the third of pulmonary consumption at Madeira, on the 3rd of March 1879, leaving his widow with two daughters.

  • This psychic ability can make the child high-strung and overly-emotional.

  • His spiritual nature was high-strung and delicate; and this condition was aggravated by his constant study, his long fasts and his frequent vigils - in one year, according to his diary, he kept sixty fasts and twenty vigils.

  • Yes, Howie is... high strung.

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