 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
overwrought
adjective: deeply agitated especially from emotion; "distraught with
grief" [syn: {distraught}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Overwrought \O'ver*wrought\, p. p. & a. from {Overwork}.
1. Wrought upon excessively; overworked.
2. Extremely agitated or excited; overexcited; -- of people.
[PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Overwork \O'ver*work"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Overworked}or
{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.
2. To fill too full of work; to crowd with labor.
My days with toil are overwrought. --Longfellow.
3. To decorate all over.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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