overwrought

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Scrabble points
21
Words With Friends
23
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/əʊ.vəˈɹɔːt/

Definition of overwrought

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (archaic, form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of overwork
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verb

  1. (archaic, form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of overwork

adj

  1. Excessively nervous, excited, tense, angry, anxious, or upset; overemotional; very uneasy.
  2. 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.

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