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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | forced, pretended |
| Synonyms: | artificial, at end of rope, awkward, choked, constrained, difficult, embarrassed, false, farfetched, hard put, in a state, labored, nervous wreck, put, self-conscious, stiff, strung out, taut, tense, tight, uncomfortable, uneasy, unglued, unnatural, unrelaxed, uptight, wired, wreck* |
| Antonyms: | genuine, unforced |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | strain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | work very hard |
| Synonyms: | bear down, endeavor, exert, go all out, go for broke, grind, hammer, hustle, labor, moil, peg away, plug, push, strive, struggle, sweat, toll, try |
| Notes: | a sprain involves one or more ligaments; a strain involves a tendon or muscle |
| Antonyms: | idle, laze, rest |
| Main Entry: | strain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | filter |
| Synonyms: | exude, percolate, purify, refine, riddle, screen, seep, separate, sieve, sift |
| Notes: | a sprain involves one or more ligaments; a strain involves a tendon or muscle |
| Main Entry: | strain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause mental stress |
| Synonyms: | distress, harass, hassle, irk, pain, pick at, push, stress, trouble, try |
| Notes: | a sprain involves one or more ligaments; a strain involves a tendon or muscle |
| Antonyms: | calm, placate, soothe |
| Main Entry: | contrived |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overly planned |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, elaborate, fake, false, forced, labored, manipulated, overdone, phony, recherché, strained, unnatural, unspontaneous |
| Main Entry: | drawn |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tense, fatigued |
| Synonyms: | fraught, haggard, harassed, harrowed, peaked, pinched, sapped, starved, strained, stressed, taut, thin, tired, worn |
| Antonyms: | relaxed, unstressed |
| Main Entry: | exaggerated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overstated, embellished |
| Synonyms: | a bit thick, abstract, amplified, artificial, bouncing, caricatural, distorted, embroidered, exalted, excessive, extravagant, fabricated, fabulous, false, fantastic, farfetched, hammy, highly colored, histrionic, hyperbolic, impossible, inflated, magnified, melodramatic, out of proportion, overblown, overdone, overestimated, overkill, overwrought, preposterous, pretentious, schmaltzy, sensational, spectacular, steep, strained, stylized, tall, too much*, too-too, unrealistic |
| Antonyms: | depreciated, minimized, played down, reduced, understated, unembellished, unexaggerated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | far-fetched |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hard to believe |
| Synonyms: | bizarre, doubtful, dubious, eccentric, fantastic, fishy, forced, hard to swallow, illogical, implausible, improbable, incoherent, inconsequential, incredible, labored, preposterous, queer, recondite, strained, strange, suspicious, unbelievable, unconvincing, unlikely, unnatural, unrealistic |
| Antonyms: | believable, natural, plausible, realistic |
| Main Entry: | intense |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | forceful, severe; passionate |
| Synonyms: | acute, agonizing, all-consuming, ardent, biting, bitter, burning, close, concentrated, consuming, cutting, deep, diligent, eager, earnest, energetic, exaggerated, exceptional, excessive, exquisite, extraordinary, extreme, fanatical, fervent, fervid, fierce, forcible, full, great, hard, harsh, heightened, impassioned, intensified, intensive, keen, marked, piercing, powerful, profound, protracted, pungent, sharp, shrill, stinging, strained, strong, supreme, undue, vehement, violent, vivid, zealous |
| Notes: | emotions are intense while sustained application or attention is intensive; intense arises from within and intensive comes from outside (it is imposed or assumed) |
| Antonyms: | calm, dull, low-key, mild, moderate |
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