overwrought
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 21
- Words With Friends
- 23
- Letters
- 11
/əʊ.vəˈɹɔːt/
Definition of overwrought
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (archaic, form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of overwork
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verb
- (archaic, form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of overwork
adj
- Excessively nervous, excited, tense, angry, anxious, or upset; overemotional; very uneasy.
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Elaborate; baroque; overdone.
“Her book includes an incisive discussion of misogyny on the New Right. [Laura K.] Field notes how “gynocracy” and “the longhouse” have become overwrought MAGA epithets for an unbearably feminized and pluralist society.”
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Etymology
Past participle of overwork; equivalent to over- + wrought.
Words you can make from overwrought
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49 words- HOVER 11 pts
- ROWTH 11 pts
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56 words- VUGH 11 pts
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3-letter words
60 words- HEW 9 pts
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