Word Type

Verb

Noun

Adjective

Adjective

The word "tense" can be used as verb, noun, adjective and adjective.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

also lax relax relaxed relaxed relaxed also

Derived Terms

absolute tense aorist tense compound tense conditional tense continuous tense future tense hodiernal tense hypertense imperfect tense past historic tense past imperfect tense past tense perfect tense pluperfect tense present tense preterite tense primary tense progressive tense relative tense secondary tense simple tense supine tense tensal tense up tense vowel

Distinct From

calm relaxed

Context

grammar linguistics phonetics

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

affect alter change change state grammatical category modify syntactic category tighten turn

Type Of (IsA)

grammatical category

Manner Of

affect change change state

Related Terms

See: Category:en:Tenses intense tend tension tent

Related Terms

action agitated anxiety become being being uncomfortable distinguish edge exist feeling grammar grammatical grammatical label intense label make muscles nervous nervous feeling occur on edge past past present present present past relax show sign slack strain stress taut tend tension tent tight uncomfortable uneasy uptight verb writing

Similar Terms

agitated antsy aroused cliff hanging cliff-hanging constricted constricted edgy electric electric fidgety fidgety fretful high-strung highly strung highly strung isotonic isotonic itchy jittery jumpy nail-biting nervous nervous nervy overstrung overstrung pumped pumped up pumped up pumped-up restive restless strained strained suspenseful suspensive taut taut tight uneasy unrelaxed unrelaxed uptight wired wound up wound up

Synonym Network

strain

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.