At the funeral, the widow was overwrought with grief.
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Overwrought
/əʊ.vəˈɹɔːt/
Synonyms for "overwrought" (153 found)
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Closest matches (31)
Strong matches (46)
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Adjective(6 words)
Verb(1 words)
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More general
6 entriesdescriptive adjectiveemotive descriptorlinguistic descriptorqualitative adjectiverhetorical adjectivestylistic descriptor
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4 entriesdramatic toneflorid proseintense moodornate phrasing
Collocations
6 entriesoverwrought descriptionoverwrought dramaoverwrought emotionsoverwrought proseoverwrought rhetoricoverwrought style
Inflections
2 entriesmore overwroughtmost overwrought
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1 entriesSample sentences
4 total sentences available.
I hate how documentaries dramatise moments in history with overwrought music and B-list actors.
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It is clearly overwrought, and I do not think a lot of people are buying the message, but that does not prevent the president from trying.
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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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