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Tense

//tɛns//

Synonyms for "tense" (289 found)

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Informal (57)

Adj, adv, name, noun, verb, slang(7 words)

light back square low hard high stiff

Adj, adv, noun, verb, slang(3 words)

flat heavy firm

Intj, noun, verb, slang(3 words)

draw pull time

Adj, noun, verb, slang(3 words)

pitch present term

Adj, name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

cool

Adj, adv, intj, noun, slang(1 words)

soft

Adj, intj, noun, verb, slang(2 words)

front period

Adj, adv, noun, slang(2 words)

cold wide

Adj, slang(7 words)

weak touchy edgy worked up high-strung antsy all-overish

Adj, adv, name, slang(1 words)

strong

Noun, verb, slang(7 words)

stretch rack stress continue haul tug flex

Adj, adv, det, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

thick

Adj, adv, verb, slang(1 words)

tight

Adj, name, noun, slang(3 words)

broad lax rusty

Adj, contraction, name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

chill

Name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

edge

Verb, slang(4 words)

let out screw up string out sweat blood

Adj, adv, noun, prep, slang(1 words)

mid

Adj, noun, slang(5 words)

volatile explosive electric uptight pluperfect

Adj, name, slang(1 words)

icy

Adj, verb, slang(2 words)

strung out keyed up

General use (232)

Adj, adv, name, noun, verb(1 words)

Adj, noun, verb(14 words)

open upset narrow perfect tonic lateral foreboding retroflex imperfect fraught quivering articulated worrying disquieting

Name, noun, verb(5 words)

strain press space brace glide

Verb(30 words)

strain strengthen reinforce draw out tighten drag out stretch out assimilated protract prolong overtax tense up lengthen stiffen shore up wound up stretched intonated dissimilated stretched out

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overexert spin out tauten trice up overextend dragged out lengthen out prolongate strain every nerve rigidify

Noun, verb(10 words)

produce extend heave tax sinking tension tide vowel straggling overstrain

Adj, verb(37 words)

unsettled disturbed rounded extended distressing stopped pitched distressed checked strained perturbed overwrought disturbing bothered muted voiced troubled taut agitated stressed

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unquiet drawn elongate worried concerned nasalized disquieted accented prolonged protracted palatalized pharyngealized elongated lengthened drawn out starched pulled

Adj, noun(38 words)

consonant sensitive liquid rigid surd future guttural incompatible dental chilly phonetic lingual emotional pharyngeal labial alveolar glottal palatal sonant bilabial

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syllabic occlusive dorsal tonal apprehensive velar continuant apical labiodental cacuminal barytone unsociable labiovelar oxytone aorist virgate durative preterit

Adj, name, noun(2 words)

central nasal

Adjective(53 words)

nervous intense restless uneasy zealous anxious restive inimical nervy cerebral voiceless throaty jumpy phonemic disaccordant phonic twangy suspenseful unaccented solicitous

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Adj, adv, noun, prep, verb(1 words)

past

Noun(14 words)

continuity misgiving duration chronology semivowel vocoid lastingness space-time historical present progressive tense timebinding past perfect future perfect present perfect

Adj, adv(1 words)

fearful

Conj, name, noun, prep, verb(1 words)

while

Adj, name(2 words)

frosty fussy

Adj, adv, noun(1 words)

unfriendly

Prep_phrase(6 words)

in a stew in suspense with bated breath on tenterhooks on edge on tiptoe

wrought up space time in a pucker the future anxioused up the past the present duree psychological time with muscles tense ramrodlike stiff as buckram keyed-up point tense stretched tight under a strain

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