Tense

Noun

 * 1)  Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists.
 * The basic tenses in English are present, past, and future.

Derived terms

 * tensal

Adjective

 * 1) Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
 * 2) Pulled taut, without any slack.

Derived terms

 * hypertense

Verb

 * 1) To make or become tense.

Adverbs for Tense
nervously; utterly; anxiously; rigidly; stiffly; terribly; oddly; uneasily; apprehensively; dreadfully; curiously; visibly; noticeably; manifestly; fearfully; self-consciously; excitedly; eagerly; unusually; remarkabJy; feverishly; warily; watchfully; quietly.

Thesaurus
accented, agitated, all-overish, alveolar, antsy, anxious, anxioused up, aorist, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, apprehensive, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial, bothered, brace, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, chill, chilly, chronology, close, cold, concerned, consonant, consonantal, continuant, continue, continuity, cool, dental, disaccordant, disquieted, disquieting, dissimilated, distressed, distressing, disturbed, disturbing, dorsal, drag out, dragged out, draw, draw out, drawn, drawn out, duration, durative, duree, edgy, elongate, elongated, extend, extended, fearful, fidgety, firm, flat, fluttery, foreboding, fraught, front, frosty, fussy, future, future perfect, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, haul, heave, heavy, high, high-strung, historical present, icy, imperfect, in a pucker, in a stew, in suspense, incompatible, inhospitable, inimical, intense, intonated, jittery, jumpy, keyed up, keyed-up, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lastingness, lateral, lax, lengthen, lengthen out, lengthened, let out, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, misgiving, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, nerve-racking, nervous, nervy, occlusive, on edge, on tenterhooks, on tiptoe, open, overanxious, overapprehensive, overexert, overextend, overstrain, overtax, overwrought, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, past, past perfect, perfect, period, perturbed, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, pluperfect, point tense, pokerlike, posttonic, present, present perfect, press, preterit, produce, progressive tense, prolong, prolongate, prolongated, prolonged, protract, protracted, psychological time, pull, pulled, queasy, quivering, rack, ramrodlike, reinforce, renitent, restive, restless, retroflex, rigid, rigidify, rodlike, rounded, rusty, screw up, semivowel, shore up, soft, solicitous, sonant, space, space-time, spin out, spun out, starched, starchy, stiff, stiff as buckram, stiffen, stopped, straggling, strain, strain every nerve, strained, strengthen, stress, stressed, stressful, stretch, stretch out, stretched, stretched out, stretched tight, string out, strong, strung out, surd, suspenseful, sweat blood, syllabic, taut, tauten, tax, tension, term, the future, the past, the present, thick, throaty, tide, tight, tighten, time, timebinding, tonal, tonic, trice up, troubled, tug, twangy, unaccented, unamiable, unamicable, uncordial, under a strain, uneasy, unfriendly, ungenial, unharmonious, unquiet, unrelaxed, unrestful, unrounded, unsettled, unsociable, unstressed, upset, uptight, velar, virgate, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, while, wide, with bated breath, with muscles tense, worked up, worried, worrisome, worrying, wound up, wrought up, zealous

Etymology 1
From tens: (modern French temps:), from  tempus:.

Etymology 2
From tensus:, past participle of tendere:.

Noun

 * Afrikaans: tyd, tempus
 * Arabic: (ṣīġa),  (ṣīġatu 'l-fiʻl)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: ajavorm, aeg, tempus
 * Finnish: aikaluokka,, tempus
 * French:


 * German:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 時制 (じせい, jisei)
 * Latin: tempus
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Adjective

 * Afrikaans: gespanne, styf
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: pingne, pinev
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:


 * Hungarian: feszült
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Macedonian: напнат
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: spänd


 * Estonian: pinguletõmmatud


 * Finnish:, jännitetty

Verb

 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,


 * Estonian: pinguldama, pingulduma
 * Finnish: (make tense),  (become tense)

Anagrams

 * Enets
 * sente
 * teens