Thesaurus / tense
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Turkish has an inferential tense marked by the suffix -miş, which you have to add to verbs whenever you are talking about something you did not personally see or something that you doubt.
THE TRUE LOVE STORY IN ELIF BATUMAN’S THE IDIOT IS A LOVE AFFAIR WITH LANGUAGECONSTANCE GRADYSEPTEMBER 11, 2020VOXLandau seemed incredibly nice, but I found the mood strangely tense.
‘THE DREAM ARCHITECTS’: INSIDE THE MAKING OF GAMING’S BIGGEST FRANCHISESRACHEL KINGSEPTEMBER 1, 2020FORTUNEElections are always tense, but this year was something different.
FOR ELECTION ADMINISTRATORS, DEATH THREATS HAVE BECOME PART OF THE JOBBY JESSICA HUSEMANAUGUST 21, 2020PROPUBLICAA tense advertising landscape in fourth quarter 2019 for Dow Jones — which includes The Wall Street Journal and Barron’s — saw its digital advertising revenue tumble by 7%.
‘IT’S LESS DIRE THAN IT SEEMED TO BE’: HOW THE WALL STREET JOURNAL’S DIGITAL ADS BUSINESS HAS WEATHERED THE DOWNTURNLUCINDA SOUTHERNAUGUST 20, 2020DIGIDAYIn this case, it appears those processes have failed, and at a moment when relations between China and India – both nuclear armed states – are already tense.
CHINA AND INDIA’S DEADLY HIMALAYAN CLASH IS A BIG TEST FOR MODI. AND A BIG CONCERN FOR THE WORLDLGBTQ-EDITORJUNE 19, 2020NO STRAIGHT NEWSThen, as the atmosphere of the room surged back, tense with vitality, her mind leapt forward in welcome.
UNCANNY TALESVARIOUSHe crouched, nerves and muscles tense, controled in spite of the torturous cloud of scalding vapor that pressed close to him.
HOODED DETECTIVE, VOLUME III NO. 2, JANUARY, 1942VARIOUSThe two men eyed one another for a moment of tense silence, and marked suspicion.
HOODED DETECTIVE, VOLUME III NO. 2, JANUARY, 1942VARIOUSA faint click reaches my tense ear, the streaming lightning burns into my face.
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMANWill you tell us more about it, please, she whispered in a strange, tense voice; its soso difficult to understand.
THOSE DALE GIRLSFRANK WESTON CARRUTHWORDS RELATED TO TENSE
- affected
- agitated
- all shook up
- beside oneself
- crazy
- distracted
- emotional
- excitable
- fired-up
- flipped-out
- frantic
- freaked-out
- histrionic
- histrionical
- hot under collar
- hot-and-bothered
- hyper
- in a state
- keyed-up
- nervous
- neurotic
- on edge
- overexcited
- overstrung
- overworked
- spent
- steamed up
- stirred
- strung-out
- tense
- tired
- uneasy
- unstrung
- uptight
- weary
- wired
- worked-up
- worn
- wound-up
- acute
- cognizant
- conscious
- delicate
- easily affected
- emotionable
- emotional
- feeling
- fine
- high-strung
- hung up
- hypersensitive
- impressible
- irritable
- keen
- knowing
- nervous
- oversensitive
- perceiving
- perceptive
- precarious
- precise
- psychic
- reactive
- receptive
- responsive
- seeing
- sensatory
- sensile
- sensorial
- sensory
- sentient
- supersensitive
- susceptible
- tense
- ticklish
- touchy
- touchy feely
- tricky
- tuned-in
- turned on to
- umbrageous
- understanding
- unstable
- wired
- arthritic
- benumbed
- brittle
- buckram
- cemented
- chilled
- congealed
- contracted
- creaky
- firm
- fixed
- frozen
- graceless
- hardened
- immalleable
- impliable
- incompliant
- indurate
- inelastic
- jelled
- mechanical
- numbed
- ossified
- petrified
- refractory
- resistant
- rheumatic
- rigid
- set
- solid
- solidified
- starched
- starchy
- stark
- steely
- stiff as a board
- stony
- taut
- tense
- thick
- thickened
- tight
- unbending
- unflexible
- ungraceful
- unsupple
- unyielding
- wooden
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