EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR HIGH-STRUNG
We never could get along together at all, because he is so high-strung and overbearing.
Though still slight of build I was wiry, high-strung and quick of movement.
It was eloquent, vibrating with eloquence, but too high-strung, I think.
Starbright was right in saying Dade Morgan was proud and high-strung.
The high-strung gaiety, the drinking, the overtranking, the relaxation of mores.
My nerves are all high-strung with the turn matters have taken.
Swimming is good, particularly for nervous, high-strung persons.
Everyone had expected so high-strung a creature to be “half-wild with nerves.”
She's as good-natured as anybody I ever saw but she's high-strung, too; she's got a temper.
She's a high-strung girl—and proud; she mustn't know a thing about this deal.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR HIGH-STRUNG
edgy
adjectivenervousexcitable
adjectiveeasily upset or inspired- agitable
- alarmable
- demonstrative
- edgy
- emotional
- enthusiastic
- fidgety
- fierce
- fiery
- galvanic
- hasty
- high-strung
- hot-headed
- hot-tempered
- hysterical
- impatient
- impetuous
- impulsive
- inflammable
- intolerant
- irascible
- mercurial
- moody
- nervous
- neurotic
- overzealous
- passionate
- peevish
- quick
- quick-tempered
- rash
- reckless
- restless
- sensitive
- short fused
- skittish
- susceptible
- temperamental
- testy
- touchy
- uncontrolled
- uneasy
- vehement
- violent
- volatile
- volcanic