overwrought

4 definitions found

overwrought - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Overwrought \O`ver*wrought\, p. p. & a. from Overwork.
     1. Wrought upon excessively; overworked.
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     2. Extremely agitated or excited; overexcited; -- of people.
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  Overwork \O`ver*work"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overworkedor
     Overwrought; p. pr. & vb. n. Overworking.]
     1. To work beyond the strength; to cause to labor too much or
        too long; to tire excessively; as, to overwork a horse.
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     2. To fill too full of work; to crowd with labor.
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              My days with toil are overwrought.    --Longfellow.
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     3. To decorate all over.
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overwrought - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  overwrought
      adj 1: deeply agitated especially from emotion; "distraught with
             grief" [syn: distraught, overwrought]

overwrought - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  126 Moby Thesaurus words for "overwrought":
     Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, aggrandized, amplified,
     arabesque, ballyhooed, baroque, bedizened, big-sounding, busy,
     chichi, convoluted, declamatory, disproportionate, distracted,
     edgy, elaborate, elegant, elevated, euphuistic, exaggerated,
     excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fancy, fidgety, fine,
     flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, florid, flowery, frantic,
     frenetic, frilly, fulsome, fussy, garish, gaudy, grandiloquent,
     grandiose, grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying,
     high-sounding, high-wrought, highfalutin, hyperbolic, in a dither,
     in a tizzy, in a twitter, inflated, inkhorn, inordinate, jittery,
     jumpy, labored, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, luxuriant,
     luxurious, magnified, magniloquent, meretricious, moresque,
     nervous, on edge, ornate, orotund, ostentatious, overcome,
     overdone, overdrawn, overelaborate, overelegant, overemphasized,
     overemphatic, overestimated, overexcited, overgreat, overinvolved,
     overlabored, overlarge, overmastered, overpowered, overpraised,
     oversold, overstated, overstrained, overstressed, overwhelmed,
     overworked, pedantic, picturesque, pompous, pretentious,
     pretty-pretty, prodigal, profuse, puffed, rhetorical, rich, rococo,
     sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, sonorous,
     stilted, stretched, strung out, superlative, tall, tense, tortuous,
     touchy, touted, upset, uptight, wound up