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high-strung
adjective as in jittery
adjective as in jumpy
adjective as in nervous
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adjective as in on edge
adjective as in sensitive
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adjective as in skittish
adjective as in temperamental
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adjective as in tense
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adjective as in overexcited
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adjective as in susceptive
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- acute
- cognizant
- conscious
- delicate
- easily affected
- emotionable
- emotional
- feeling
- fine
- hung up
- hypersensitive
- impressible
- impressionable
- irritable
- keen
- knowing
- nervous
- oversensitive
- perceiving
- perceptive
- precarious
- precise
- psychic
- reactive
- receptive
- responsive
- seeing
- sensatory
- sensible
- sensile
- sensorial
- sensory
- sentient
- supersensitive
- susceptible
- tense
- ticklish
- touchy
- touchy feely
- tricky
- tuned-in
- turned on to
- umbrageous
- understanding
- unstable
- wired
adjective as in twitchy
adjective as in edgy
adjective as in excitable
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- agitable
- alarmable
- edgy
- emotional
- enthusiastic
- fierce
- galvanic
- hasty
- hot-headed
- hot-tempered
- impatient
- impetuous
- inflammable
- intolerant
- irascible
- mercurial
- moody
- nervous
- neurotic
- overzealous
- passionate
- peevish
- quick
- quick-tempered
- rash
- reckless
- sensitive
- short-fused
- susceptible
- testy
- touchy
- uncontrolled
- uneasy
- vehement
- violent
- volatile
- volcanic
adjective as in feisty
adjective as in feverish
adjective as in fidgety
adjective as in hyperactive
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adverb as in on edge
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Example Sentences
He was “high-strung”—intensely neurotic—yet a charismatic personality nonetheless.
He is high-strung and on edge, and his volatility practically sears the screen.
The real Sean Parker (who I profiled for the September issue of Vanity Fair) is certainly high-strung.
Henry acknowledged in her that great quality of the nervous temperament, the power of rising high-strung to an emergency.
Starbright was right in saying Dade Morgan was proud and high-strung.
High-strung and neurotic, the strain of newspaper work and the tumult of the Comstock had told on him.
We are even willing to believe that a high-strung, nervous girl may imagine herself to be the subject of miraculous influences.
But 'Liz'beth wan't no kind of a mother for such a high-strung lad.
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On this page you'll find 25 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to high-strung, such as: excitable, restless, edgy, impatient, and tense.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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