Overwrought

Word OVERWROUGHT
Character 11
Hyphenation o ver wrought
Pronunciations /əʊ.vəˈɹɔːt/

Definitions and meanings of "Overwrought"

What do we mean by overwrought?

Excessively nervous or excited; agitated. adjective

Extremely elaborate or ornate; overdone. adjective

Worked too hard or too much.

Worked up or excited to excess; overexcited: as overwrought feelings, imagination, etc.

Worked all over; covered with decorative work: as, a garment overwrought with embroidered flowers.

Labored or elaborated to excess; overdone.

Wrought upon excessively; overworked. past participle

Extremely agitated or excited; overexcited; -- of people. past participle

In a state of excessive nervousness, excitement, or anger; Extremely tense, anxious, or upset; filled with emotion, emotional; uneasy adjective

Elaborate; overdone adjective

Deeply agitated especially from emotion adjective

Excessively nervous, excited, tense, angry, anxious, or upset; overemotional; very uneasy.

Elaborate; overdone.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Overwrought

The word "overwrought" in example sentences

Best of all, she's got a playful sensibility that keeps the covers from getting bogged down in overwrought gravitas, no matter the subject. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That last label is the funniest of the three because a story about a notorious miser visited by four ghosts who scare the hell out of him to make him change his life is by definition overwrought. ❋ Lev Raphael (2011)

Tademy's bold, controlled account of these horrific events never shies away from the gruesome facts, or becomes overwrought, which is a remarkable feat considering her emotional attachment to the story and its characters. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I would be so excited about my latest acquisition that I would start to read in the car a habit that always triggered my motion sickness, but I didn't care, and then, the second I got home, sign my name in overwrought cursive on the inside cover. ❋ Raquel Laneri (2011)

This is the kind of overwrought, underreported business story I expect to see in Fortune magazine, not my local business journal. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Not sure how that became "overwrought" in your mind, but maybe we've misunderstood each other. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Pleased to see that I was at "overwrought" before J. Hoberman got there. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And insofar as we might say that the poetry of emotion is synonymous with its expression in language, then it becomes clear that writing from a place of the 'overwrought', the 'cheap', the 'excessive', the 'insufficient' and the 'incapable' is actually also writing from a place of abjection women writers are consigned to in a kind of categorical quarantine. ❋ Dodie Bellamy (2008)

On the day it ran, Executive Editor Bill Keller, not exactly chastened, called criticism of the Times' coverage "overwrought" and said that the main reason it even published the note was because the controversy had become a "distraction." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Opera Tattler finds the characters caricatures and the production "overwrought," with the music unfocussed and too much in the background. ❋ Lisa Hirsch (2008)

Yes, but that kind of overwrought emotion only applies, I'm afraid, to the libraries I knew in my pre-Japan days. ❋ Unknown (2005)

That kind of overwrought narration makes some of these documentaries a slog, as does the almost constant use of slow motion; in the wild, it appears, nothing happens in real time. ❋ By NEIL GENZLINGER (2010)

Stewart inspires this kind of overwrought analysis because his 'Daily ❋ Unknown (2010)

Professor Birnbaum relies on words like "overwrought" to describe me-which is quite unscientific, considering that he graduated Williams in '46 and has never met me, nor lived in a dorm where the only option was a coed bathroom. ❋ Eph (2010)

Bélanger has composed a kind of overwrought French rock ballad that only does well on Quebec radio, but Guérin sells it, taking swigs out of a mickey of Johnnie Walker, adding another layer of meaning to the wounded lyrics. ❋ J. Kelly Nestruck (2010)

The Immediate were supposed to be that next-big-thing to come out of Ireland, nominated for awards and subject to the kind of overwrought praise the U.K. music press likes to dole out to dare bands to be as good as they've already said they are. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Fortunately, with fiction, that kind of overwrought enthusiasm is conveniently isolated to the author blurbs, which are easily ignored, allowing designers more flexibility. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Yet, it's the worst kind of overwrought, anti-historical melodrama to compare your disagreement with Obama's economic strategy, as the April 15 tea partiers did, to the grievances of colonists in 1773 Boston. ❋ Terry Smith (2009)

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