Overwrought

Adjective

 * 1) in a state of excessive nervousness, excitement, or anger; Extremely tense, anxious, or upset; filled with emotion, emotional; uneasy
 * 2) elaborate; overdone

Synonyms

 * (emotional): distraught, overwhelmed, distressed, agitated
 * (elaborate): ornate, overdecorated

Antonyms

 * (emotional): calm, collected, composed, laid-back, placid, serene, tranquil, untroubled
 * (elaborate): austere, bare, conservative, denuded, modest, naked, plain, simple, stark, stripped, uncovered, restrained, subdued, toned-down, unadorned

Thesaurus
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

Pronunciation

 * IPA: /.v.t/
 * IPA: /.v.t/ AHD: /ōvər-rôt/
 * IPA: /.v.t/

Etymology
past participle of overwork

Translations

 * Finnish: kiihtynyt, hermostunut


 * Italian: sovraeccitato, alterato


 * Italian: ricercato, elaborato

Related terms

 * wrought
 * (emotional): feverish, frenzied, heated, impassioned, overactive
 * (elaborate): adorned, beautified, bedecked, bossed, chased, decked, decorated, dressed, embellished, emblazoned, embossed, embroidered, enhanced, enriched, extravagant, extreme, flamboyant, flashy, flounced, flowery, frilly, fringed, garlanded, garnished, gaudy, gilded, glitzy, heightened, intensified, laced, lacy, loud, ornamented, showy, spectacular, tawdry, trimmed, wreathed