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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult to understand, unclear |
| Synonyms: | affected, arduous, awkward, clumsy, contrived, effortful, forced, hard, heavy, inept, maladroit, operose, overdone, overwrought, ponderous, stiff, strained, strenuous, studied, toilsome, unnatural, uphill, weighty |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile, natural, relaxed |
| Main Entry: | miserable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unhappy, depressed |
| Synonyms: | afflicted, agonized, ailing, anguished, brokenhearted, crestfallen, dejected, desolate, despairing, despondent, destroyed, disconsolate, discontented, distressed, doleful, dolorous, down, down in the mouth, downcast, forlorn, gloomy, heartbroken, hopeless, hurt, hurting, ill, in pain, injured, melancholy, mournful, on a downer, pained, pathetic, pitiable, racked, rueful, ruthful, sad, sick, sickly, sorrowful, strained, suffering, tormented, tortured, tragic, troubled, woebegone, wounded, wretched |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, elated, happy, joyful, merry |
| Main Entry: | oblique |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | slanting; at an angle |
| Synonyms: | angled, askance, askew, aslant, asymmetrical, awry, bent, cater-cornered, crooked, diagonal, distorted, diverging, inclined, inclining, leaning, on the bias, pitched, pitching, sideways, skew, slanted, sloped, sloping, strained, tilted, tilting, tipped, tipping, turned, twisted |
| Notes: | oblique means slanting or inclined in direction or course or position - or misleading; opaque means not transmitting or reflecting light - or not clearly understood or expressed |
| Main Entry: | overworked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worn out |
| Synonyms: | burned out, exhausted, fatigued, overburdened, overloaded, overtaxed, strained, stressed, stressed out, tense, under stress |
| Main Entry: | refined |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cleaned of impurities |
| Synonyms: | aerated, boiled down, clarified, clean, cleansed, distilled, drained, expurgated, filtered, processed, pure, purified, rarefied, strained, washed |
| Antonyms: | corrupt, dirtied, polluted |
| Main Entry: | taut |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rigid, tight |
| Synonyms: | close, firm, flexed, snug, stiff, strained, stressed, stretched, tense, tightly drawn, trim, unyielding |
| Notes: | taunt meant to mock or tease someone; taut means tightly stretched or tense |
| Antonyms: | droopy, flabby, loose, slack |
| Main Entry: | tense |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tight, stretched |
| Synonyms: | close, firm, rigid, stiff, strained, taut |
| Antonyms: | limp, limpid, loose, relaxed, slack |
| Main Entry: | tense |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | under stress, pressure |
| Synonyms: | agitated, anxious, apprehensive, beside oneself, bundle of nerves, choked, clutched, concerned, edgy, excited, fidgety, fluttery, high-strung, hung up, hyper, in a tizzy, jittery, jumpy, keyed up, moved, moving, nerve-racking, nervous, nervous wreck, on edge, overanxious, overwrought, queasy, restive, restless, shaky, shot to pieces, shot*, strained, stressful, strung out, uneasy, unnerved, unquiet, up the wall, uptight*, white knuckled, wired, worried, worrying, wound up, wreck* |
| Antonyms: | calm, easy-going, laid-back, relaxed, uncaring |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tight |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | close, snug |
| Synonyms: | bound, clasped, close-fitting, compact, constricted, contracted, cramped, crowded, dense, drawn, enduring, established, fast, firm, fixed, hidebound, inflexible, invulnerable, narrow, quick, rigid, secure, set, skintight, solid, stable, steady, stiff, strained, stretched, strong, sturdy, taut, tenacious, tense, thick, tightened, unbending, unyielding |
| Notes: | the choice of 'tight' or 'tightly' depends on whether it is the result or the application that is emphasized; if it is an enduring state, you would use 'tight' |
| Antonyms: | comfortable, free, loose, open, slack |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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