Thesaurus / highstrung
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synonyms for highstrung
- apprehensive
- creepy
- excitable
- fidgety
- frisky
- high-strung
- jittery
- restless
- shaky
- skittish
- spooked
- agitated
- antsy
- anxious
- excited
- on edge
- on pins and needles
- sensitive
- tense
- timorous
- unrestful
- afraid
- agitated
- annoyed
- apprehensive
- concerned
- edgy
- fussy
- hesitant
- hysterical
- irritable
- jittery
- jumpy
- shaky
- shy
- skittish
- spooked
- tense
- timid
- uneasy
- uptight
- volatile
- weak
- basket case
- bothered
- distressed
- disturbed
- excitable
- fidgety
- fitful
- flustered
- high-strung
- nervy
- neurotic
- on edge
- overwrought
- querulous
- restive
- ruffled
- sensitive
- shrinking
- snappish
- solicitous
- taut
- timorous
- troubled
- twitchy
- unrestful
- unstrung
- upset
- wired
- worried
- agitated
- anxious
- apprehensive
- beside oneself
- bundle of nerves
- edgy
- excited
- fidgety
- high-strung
- hyper
- impatient
- in a tizzy
- jittery
- jumpy
- keyed-up
- nerve-racking
- nervous
- nervous wreck
- overanxious
- restless
- stressful
- unnerved
- uptight
- wired
- worried
- wound-up
- conscious
- delicate
- emotional
- hypersensitive
- keen
- nervous
- perceptive
- precise
- receptive
- responsive
- susceptible
- tense
- touchy
- tricky
- unstable
- acute
- feeling
- fine
- knowing
- psychic
- seeing
- understanding
- cognizant
- easily affected
- emotionable
- high-strung
- hung up
- impressible
- irritable
- oversensitive
- perceiving
- precarious
- reactive
- sensatory
- sensile
- sensorial
- sensory
- sentient
- supersensitive
- ticklish
- touchy feely
- tuned-in
- turned on to
- umbrageous
- wired
- edgy
- excited
- fearful
- fickle
- giddy
- jumpy
- restive
- agitable
- alarmable
- capricious
- changeable
- combustible
- dizzy
- excitable
- fidgety
- flighty
- frivolous
- harebrained
- high-strung
- irresponsible
- lightheaded
- lively
- peppy
- playful
- scatterbrained
- sensitive
- spirited
- undependable
- unreliable
- volative
- whimsical
- zippy
- capricious
- erratic
- excitable
- fickle
- headstrong
- high-strung
- impatient
- irritable
- mercurial
- moody
- ornery
- passionate
- petulant
- thin-skinned
- unpredictable
- unreliable
- unstable
- volatile
- changeable
- cussed
- easily upset
- emotional
- explosive
- fiery
- froward
- hotheaded
- hyper
- hypersensitive
- in bad mood
- inconsistent
- mean
- neurotic
- sensitive
- ticklish
- touchy
- uncertain
- undependable
- variable
- willful
- agitated
- anxious
- apprehensive
- edgy
- excited
- jittery
- nervous
- restive
- shaky
- strained
- stressful
- uneasy
- choked
- clutched
- concerned
- moved
- moving
- shot
- unnerved
- wired
- worried
- worrying
- wreck
- beside oneself
- bundle of nerves
- fidgety
- fluttery
- high-strung
- hung up
- hyper
- in a tizzy
- jumpy
- keyed-up
- nerve-racking
- nervous wreck
- on edge
- overanxious
- overwrought
- queasy
- restless
- shot to pieces
- strung-out
- unquiet
- up the wall
- uptight
- white knuckled
- wound-up
- acute
- cognizant
- conscious
- delicate
- easily affected
- emotionable
- emotional
- feeling
- fine
- high-strung
- 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
- a bundle of nerves
- all wound up
- anxious
- critical
- excitable
- excited
- fidgety
- high-strung
- ill at ease
- impatient
- irascible
- irritable
- jittery
- jumpy
- keyed-up
- nervous
- on edge
- overstrung
- restive
- restless
- skittish
- tense
- touchy
- uneasy
- uptight
- excited
- restless
- skittish
- tense
- uneasy
- uptight
- anxious
- critical
- excitable
- high-strung
- ill at ease
- impatient
- irascible
- irritable
- keyed-up
- overstrung
- restive
- touchy
- demonstrative
- fidgety
- fiery
- high-strung
- hysterical
- impulsive
- restless
- skittish
- temperamental
- 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
- bubbly
- courageous
- excitable
- fiery
- gritty
- gutsy
- high-strung
- lively
- scrappy
- spunky
- active
- alive
- difficult
- enthusiastic
- frisky
- full of pep
- game
- gutty
- hot-blooded
- mettlesome
- ornery
- peppy
- quarrelsome
- sensitive
- thin-skinned
- tough
- truculent
- zestful
- fevered
- frantic
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- high-strung
- impatient
- keyed-up
- nervous
- overwrought
- apprehensive
- impatient
- jittery
- jumpy
- restless
- uneasy
- antsy
- high-strung
- hyper
- jerky
- nervous
- nervous wreck
- nervy
- on edge
- on pins and needles
- restive
- spooked
- spooky
- twitchy
- unrestful
- up the wall
- wired
- anxious
- edgy
- fidgety
- high-strung
- hyper
- impatient
- in suspense
- jittery
- jumpy
- nail-biting
- nerves on edge
- nervous
- skittish
- uneasy
- wired
On this page you'll find 641 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to highstrung, such as: anxious, apprehensive, edgy, excitable, fidgety, and jumpy.
antonyms for highstrung
MOST RELEVANT
- bold
- brave
- calm
- certain
- collected
- composed
- confident
- cool
- easygoing
- extroverted
- fearless
- firm
- happy
- laid-back
- sufficient
- sure
- unafraid
- uncaring
- unwavering
- unworried
- calm
- ignorant
- imprecise
- insensitive
- laid-back
- loose
- strong
- unaware
- unresponsive
- unsusceptible
- heartless
- impassive
- indifferent
- numb
- thick-skinned
- unfeeling
- calm
- constant
- dependable
- easygoing
- happy
- laid-back
- predictable
- reliable
- stable
- steadfast
- steady
- tolerant
- unchanging
- unvarying
- peaceful
- pleased
- calm
- composed
- easygoing
- laid-back
- unafraid
- unworried
- happy
- untroubled
- limp
- limpid
- loose
- relaxed
- slack
- uncaring
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How to use highstrung in a sentence
But the highstrung Bozzy had to experience a revulsion of low feelings to which he was ever prone.
JAMES BOSWELLWILLIAM KEITH LEASKTo hand a sensitive, "highstrung" child over to such a woman!
ANNE OF GREEN GABLESLUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYDid it issue from his lips or from those of his highstrung and unfeeling wife?
THE GOLDEN SLIPPERANNA KATHARINE GREENWith a taste of victory, nothing could stop these highstrung reserves, except the things that kill and wound.
MY SECOND YEAR OF THE WARFREDERICK PALMERGradually he came to the point where the highstrung boy had refused to be treated as a child any longer.
MOTOR BOAT BOYS ON THE GREAT LAKESLOUIS ARUNDELAnd because he was a horse abnormally highstrung and sensitive, this punishment was to be doubly cruel.
BRED OF THE DESERTMARCUS HORTONThe faint smile with which he regarded her somehow emphasized his determined, highstrung look.
THE COAST OF ADVENTUREHAROLD BINDLOSSWhat a nervous, hustling, highstrung creature he is—a live wire at all times and places!
THE WIT OF A DUCK AND OTHER PAPERSJOHN BURROUGHSHe felt the sense of tense, highstrung power which came to him in war, in fighting, in any element of danger.
THE FORTIETH DOORMARY HASTINGS BRADLEYYet he was small and nervous and highstrung like Keith and Bauer.
THE SOUL OF A CHILDEDWIN BJORKMAN