| 单词 | overwrought |
| 释义 | overwrought (once / 4981 pages) adj High in drama and lacking any emotional restraint, overwrought is an adjective that means deeply, excessively agitated or nervous. Say your favorite soap star gets killed off in episode 12. If you sob uncontrollably, tear at your hair, and refuse to leave the couch for a week, most would say your response was overwrought — in other words, a bit much. But it's not just emotions that can go over the top. The gaudy, golden McMansion covered in ornate Italian statuary where your soap star lives in real life? Totally overdone, or overwrought, with details. WORD FAMILYwrought: inwrought, overwrought, wroughtest USAGE EXAMPLESBut many others tweeted that the backlash was overwrought. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) It continues today most notably in the overwrought response to the epidemic of inappropriate hydrocodone use. New York Times(Oct 12, 2016) Yet the alarm has hardly been confined to the ranks of overwrought journalists. The New Yorker(Nov 29, 2016) adj deeply agitated especially from emotion Syn distraught agitated troubled emotionally and usually deeply |
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