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worked-up
adjective as in beside oneself
adjective as in excited
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adjective as in fired up
adjective as in frantic
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adjective as in hysterical
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adjective as in impassioned
adjective as in intolerant
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adjective as in irate
adjective as in madding
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- agitated
- angry
- at wit's end
- berserk
- beside oneself
- corybantic
- crazy
- delirious
- deranged
- distraught
- excited
- flipped-out
- fraught
- freaked-out
- frenetic
- frenzied
- furious
- hectic
- hot and bothered
- hot under the collar
- hyper
- hysterical
- in a stew
- in a tizzy
- insane
- mad
- out of control
- overwrought
- panic-stricken
- rabid
- raging
- raving
- shook-up
- unglued
- unscrewed
- unzipped
- violent
- weird
- weirded out
- wigged out
- wild
- wired
- zonkers
adjective as in overwrought
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- affected
- agitated
- all shook up
- beside oneself
- crazy
- distracted
- emotional
- excitable
- fired-up
- flipped-out
- freaked-out
- histrionic
- histrionical
- hot under collar
- hot-and-bothered
- hyper
- in a state
- nervous
- neurotic
- on edge
- overexcited
- overstrung
- overworked
- spent
- steamed up
- stirred
- strung-out
- tense
- tired
- uneasy
- unstrung
- uptight
- weary
- wired
- worn
- wound-up
adjective as in psyched
adjective as in pumped
adjective as in stoked
Example Sentences
But were Americans ever so worked up about the practice that they demanded it not be undertaken in their name?
[At a 2004 NAACP event], he got worked up listening to speech after speech talk about the heroes of Brown v. Board of Education.
For centuries, student artists copied plaster casts and worked up variations on images of the Holy Family.
Talking about the card at length, Suze Orman has gotten a bit worked up.
At some points Caddell got himself so worked up, he appeared to lose his train of thought midway through a sentence.
These ingredients must be well worked up in a mortar, until thoroughly incorporated.
Cement mortars should never be worked up after setting has taken place.
The dauphiness, worked up into a nervous state by the incidents of the day, seized the duchess' arm in her fright.
All went to the timber yard—every bit except some little pieces worked up in the Lady Chapel, and 'ere in this overmantel.
The district has been well worked up; and there are many of both sexes in it prepared to either pray or fight for St. Peter's.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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