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Definition: Overwrought |
OverwroughtAdjective1. Deeply agitated especially from emotion; "distraught with grief". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "overwrought" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
Synonym: OverwroughtSynonym: distraught (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affectation | Not natural, unnatural; self-conscious; maniere; artificial; overwrought, overdone, overacted; euphuist. |
Exaggeration | Adjective: exaggerated; Verb: overwrought; bombastic; (grandiloquent); hyperbolical, on stilts; fabulous, extravagant, preposterous, egregious, outre, highflying. |
Excitation | Adjective: excited; Verb: wrought up, up the qui vive, astir, sparkling; in a quiver; in a fever, in a ferment, in a blaze, in a state of excitement; in hysterics; black in the face, overwrought, tense, taught, on a razor's edge; hot, red-hot, flushed, feverish; all of a twitter, in a pucker; with quivering lips, with tears in one's eyes. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | You're overwrought! (Carry On Cruising; writing credit: Eric Barker; Norman Hudis) | |
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 | Uninhibited; laughing; hysterical; beside oneself; carried away; corybantic; crazy; delighted; drunk; ecstatic; enthused; frenetic; frenzied; happy; intoxicated; mad; overexcited; overwrought; rabid; rapturous; thrilled; transported; wild. |
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| "Overwrought" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 69.23% of the time. "Overwrought" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 69.23% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 26.92% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.85% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "overwrought"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shumë i tendosur (overstrung), shumë i lodhur (beaten), i zbukuruar tepër. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منمق بجودة, مجهد (arduous, exhausting, fatiguing, laborious, onerous, strenuous, tiring, toilsome, wearing), مثار أو مهتاج. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | със сложна изработка, развълнуван (aflutter, agitated, astir, choppy, perturbed, streaked, thrilled, touched, turbulent, upset), цял украсен, възбуден (aflutter, aglow, agog, effervescent, excited, fevered, hectic, hot, impassioned, tremulous, tumultuous, wrought up), напрегнат (breathless, exacting, excited, intense, intent, laborious, nervy, overstrung, strenuous, taut, tense, tight, uncool, uphill), претрупан (elaborate, exuberant, finical, finicking, finicky, flamboyant, florid, fussy, gaudy, luscious, lush, luxuriant, ornate, overladen, piled, purple, redundant, rush, tawdry), изопнат (extended, tight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | přetažený (highly strung, overstrung), přepracovaný (jaded, overworked), nervózní (fussy, high strung, highly strung, ill tempered, jittery, jumpy, nervous, nervy, neurotic, on edge, overstrung, tense, unsettled, uptight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پرکار (Hardworking, Prolific), کاربرده , تهیه شده ازروی مهارت , عصبی (Neurotic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rasittunut (strained). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sur les nerfs, fatigué (overworked), excédé, épuisé, bout. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | überarbeitet (revised, revises). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παρακουρασμένοσ, παραδουλευμένοσ, υπερεξηντλημένοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תשוש (all in, exhausted, flagging, frail, jaded, limp, limping, played out, weak), ר'ש ביותר (delirious with). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | túlfeszített (exalted, highly strung, overstrung, overstudy), kimerült (all in, beaten, beat-up, dead beat, deadbeat, done, drained, effete, exhausted, forworn, impoverished, played out, prostrate, spent, tired, to be maxed out, to be zonked out, to feel run down, washed up, weary, worn-out), igen izgatott, agyondolgozott. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | eccitato (agog, excited), agitato (agitated, fussy, haywire, hectic, jittery, jumpy, nervous, restive, restless, troubled, turbulent, upset, wild). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | toghtit (choked, foul, strangled, strangulated, tense, tense of voice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | overwroughtay sobrescrito (address, envelopment, superscript), muito excitado, extenuado (done, spent, tired, worn out), exausto (blown, bushed, dead beat, done, effete, exhausted, faint, impoverished children, jaded, outworn, player, spent, whacked). (various references) tocit (blunt, chippy, dull, edgeless, hackneyed, worn out), surescitat (nervy), supralicitat, nervos (fidgety, fussy, hysterical, ill natured, impatient, impatiently, irritably, irritated, jumpy, nervous, nervously, nervy, neurotic, sinewy), muncit (forced, tired), foarte obosit, extenuant (exacting, exhausting), elaborat (belaboured, elaborate, studied), încãrcat de amãnunte. (various references) тщательно отделанный, возбужденный (ablaze, agitated, aglow, agog, astir, excited, exhilarating, feverish, heated, hectic, het up, narked, revved up), переутомленный (run-down). (various references) uzrujan (agitated, distraught, nervous, upset), uzbuđen (agog, annoyed, astir, excited, wrought up). (various references) sobreexcitado (overexcited, overstrung). (various references) utstyrd (fussy), hypernervör, överspänd (exalted, flighty, overexcited, overstrung, unbalanced), överlastad (busy, florid, luxuriant, ornate), överarbetad (overworked). (various references) sinirleri bozuk (nervy, unstrung), aşırı süslü (gingerbread), aşırı heyecanlanmış (frantic), çok çalışmaktan bitkin düşmüş. (various references) вигадливий (ambitious, artsy-craftsy, arty-crafty, baroque, fancy, niggled, notionate), знервований, збуджений (ablaze, agitated, animate, astir, excited, feverish, heated, hot, intoxicate, irritated, nervy, spasmodic, tense, tumultuous, warm, wrought), перевтомлений працею, переобтяжений деталями. (various references) cuống quít gọt giũa quá kỹ c ng, cầu kỳ (euphuistic, finical, finicking, finicky, finikin, laboured). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Overwrought" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: o'erraught. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "overwrought" (pronounced ō'verrô"t) |
| 3 | -r ô" t | brought, distraught, fraught, wrought. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-h-o-o-r-r-t-u-v-w" | |
-1 letter: overgrowth. | |
-2 letters: overthrow, rewrought. | |
-3 letters: overgrow, regrowth. | |
-4 letters: groover, grouter, outgrew, outgrow, outwore, overhot, rougher, thrower, tougher, wrought. | |
-5 letters: groove, grower, growth, hooter, hurter, outrow, regrow, rhetor, rooter, router, throve, torero, tourer, trough, trover, turgor, voguer, wuther. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01110110 01100101 01110010 01110111 01110010 01101111 01110101 01100111 01101000 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O v e r w r o u g h t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0076 0065 0072 0077 0072 006F 0075 0067 0068 0074 |
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| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, الألبانية, الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, albanialainen, Albanais, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanese, Albaneagh, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | arabishte, العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, arabský, arabština, arabialainen, arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, arabo, Arabish, arabic, арабский, arapski, árabe, arabisk, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський, tiếng A-rập, thuộc A-rập |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, البلغارية, بلغاري, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bulgarialainen, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | çek, تشيكي, اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, t?ekkiläinen, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, Sheckagh, Sheckish, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка, người Séc tiếng Séc |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | finlandez, finlandishte, finlandisht, اللغة الفنلندية, فنلندية, فنلندي, фински език, фински, finský, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, פי י, finn, finlandese, Fynlannish, Fynlannagh, finlandês, finês, finlandezã, финский, finski jezik, finski, finlandés, finés, finsk, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü, фінська мова, фінський, tiếng Phần-lan |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | frëngjishte, frëng, franceze, اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, francouzský, francouzština, ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, צרפתית, צרפתי, francia, francese, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, francês, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | gjerman, ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, nìmec, nìmecký, saksalainen, allemand, "ερμανός, 'רמ ית, 'רמ י, német, tedesco, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, alemão, neamţ, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, الإغريقي, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, řek, řecký, řeètina, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, greco, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, greacã, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, kẻ lừa đảo, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm |
Hebrew | אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק | hebraishte, اليهودية, اللغة العبرية, يهودي, عبري, العبرية, иврит, староеврейски език, древен жител на юдея, юдейски, израилтянин, евреин, староеврейски, юдей, hebrejský, hebrejec, hebrejka, hebrejština, juutalainen, hébreu, hebräisch, Hebräer, εβραϊκόσ, εβραϊκά, εβραίοσ, עברי, עברית, zsidó, héber, izraelita, ebreo, ebraico, Ewagh, Ewnish, Ew, hebreu, hebraico, limba ebraicã, izraelit, evreu, evreiesc, ebraic, еврей, древнееврейский язык, древнееврейский, еврейский, hibru, hebreo, jude, hebreiska, hebreisk, musevi, ibranice, ibrani, іудей, іврит, старо"врейська мова, старо"врейський, "врейський, "врей, người Hê-brơ |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, unkarilainen, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, италиански език, италиански, италианец, italský, italština, ital, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, איטלקית, איטלקי, olasz, italiano, Iddaalish, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | gjuha e popullsisë së ishullit men, manština, manský, manx, mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, s ostrva mana, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man, från ön man, man adası, man dili, менський, менський діалект |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugez, portugalisht, اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, Portiugish, Portiugagh, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | rumun, румънски език, румънски, румънец, rumunský, rumunština, romanialainen, Roumain, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, rumeno, Roomainagh, romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumunski jezik, rumunski, rumano, rumänsk, румунський, румунка, румунська мова, румун |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, venäläinen, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, russo, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | serbokroatisch, servo-croata, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanjoll, اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, испански език, испански, španìlský, španìlština, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, spagnolo, Spaainish, Spaainagh, espanhol, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | suedez, اللغة السويدية, шведски, шведски език, швед, švédský, švédština, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, Soolynish, Soolynagh, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turk, تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, турски език, турски, turecký, tureètina, turkkilainen, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, turc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | ukrainisht, ukrainas, أوكراني أحد أبناء أوكرانيا, الأوكراني, украинец, украински език, ukrajinec, ukrajinština, ukrajinský, ukrajinka, اهل اوکرانی درکشورشوروی , ukrainalainen, ukrainien, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, ukrán, ucraino, Ookraanagh, Ookraanish, ucraniano, ucrainean, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ukrajinski, ukrajina, ucranio, ukrainare, ukraynalı, ukrayna, ukraynaca, український, українець, người U-kren tiếng U-kren |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | vietnamisht, vietnamez, виетнамски език, виетнамски, vietnamec, vietnamský, vietnamka, vietnamština, vietnamilainen, vietnamien, vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, 'ιετναμέζος, vietnami, vietnámi, vietnamita, вьетнамский, vijetnamski jezik, vijetnamski, vijetnamac, vietnames, vietnamlı, vietnam dili, vietnam, в'"тнамець, в'"тнамський, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, א 'לית, angol, inglese, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, inglês, englezesc, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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