Tense - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 03/12/2023

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Tense.

4 letter answer(s) to tense

EDGY
  1. being in a tense state
  2. Experimental or Avant-guarde.
  3. highly strung
TAUT
  1. pulled or drawn tight; "taut sails"; "a tight drumhead"; "a tight rope"
  2. subjected to great tension; stretched tight; "the skin of his face looked drawn and tight"; "her nerves were taut as the strings of a bow"

7 letter answer(s) to tense

FRAUGHT
  1. filled with or attended with; "words fraught with meaning"; "an incident fraught with danger"; "a silence pregnant with suspense"
  2. marked by distress; "a fraught mother-daughter relationship"
UPTIGHT
  1. being in a tense state
WOUNDUP

6 letter answer(s) to tense

ONEDGE

8 letter answer(s) to tense

STRAINED
  1. alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy"
  2. become stretched or tense or taut;
  3. cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious;
  4. lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating"
  5. lacking spontaneity; not natural; "a constrained smile"; "forced heartiness"; "a strained smile"
  6. remove by passing through a filter;
  7. rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender; "puree the vegetables for the baby"
  8. separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; "sift the flour"
  9. showing signs of mental and emotional tension; "her voice was strained as she asked the question"
  10. struggling for effect; "agonistic poses"
  11. test the limits of; "You are trying my patience!"
  12. to exert much effort or energy;
  13. use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity;
STRESSED
  1. bearing a stress or accent; "an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in `delay'"
  2. put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"
  3. suffering severe physical strain or distress; "he dropped out of the race, clearly distressed and having difficulty breathing"
  4. test the limits of; "You are trying my patience!"
  5. to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"

Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Tense'

A dictator gains European leadership in Suspense
All nerves
Antsy
Anxious
Anxious and controlling
Apprehensive
Apt to snap
Artificial - as tinder
Avant-garde piece from talented gypsy
… hired gymnasium, showing stuff that's avant garde
Before temperature fell, sun's unnatural
Bob cuts leaves back under pressure
Brittle BBC boss welcomed by the old in retirement
By the sound of it, worked in education, far from relaxed
Daring, in a way
Defaced drinking vessel, smashed on edge
Des rests, when upset and very anxious
Drawn tight
Edgy
Emphasised
Emphasised fantastic des res on street
Emphasized
Envelope-pushing
Ex-lax?
Excited to take part in advanced gymnastics
Father is on top of anything causing distress
Fidgeting
Fidgety
Finished drunk and on edge
First two leaving subdued and tense
Fully stretched
Having no play
Heavily taxed transport in South-East, beginning in Dover
Highly strung
Highly-strung Edward, absorbed in self-reflection
Idly loiter and buy some drinks
Ill at ease
In revolt, mean and tense
Irascible
Irritable
Irritable in overheated gym
Irritable newsman Gary's outside
Irritated, flying three sheets to the wind
Jeer with any number leaving stressed
Jittery
Jumpy
Keyed up
Lacking play
Lacking slack
Like a trampoline's surfa
Like guitar strings
Like hip ads
Like part of a foot
Like school pupil sounding unrelaxed
Like some modern filmmaki
Like some relations
Nervous
Nervous - tense
Nervous and at the forefront of fashion
Nervous editor's gone running outside
Nervous in court, cramped
Nervous individual periodically dogged
Nervous journalist has good year after
Nervous journalist, guy that's lost heart
Nervous performing at the Fringe?
Nervous with anticipation for study into self-confidence in retirement
Nervous, irritable
Nervous, tense
Nervously excited
Nervously irritable
Nervy drunkard may get this, if woken too soon
Nervy, like Scrooge after heading for London
Not relaxed
Not slack
Not yet in bed, drunk and unable to relax
On pins and needles
On tenterhooks
Out of bed, drunk and tense
Out of bed, drunk is nervy
Out of bed, the worse for wear and tense
Out of bed, the worse for wear, and tetchy
Played up
Playing advantage, so I've got a feeling of nervous anticipation
Pulled tight
Pushing the envelope
Randiest when getting massage - that's awkward
RC men not as desperate to see RC receptacle
Ready for a vacation
Ready to freak out, maybe
Reversing round double bend, defects will be emphasised
Revolting drunk may get one in a nervy state
Seedy guy regularly getting nervous
Somewhat under­prepared, gymnast nervous
Sort of bordering on tense
Soundly instructed, not slack
Speaker's educated and stiff
Spoke with an accent?
Stiff
Stone handled by mason not initially under pressure
Strained
Strained sound of rebuke muffling answer
Strained sweet courses knocked back
Stressed out
Stretched
Stretched tight
Stretched to the limit
Strung tightly
Suffering from strain
Suspenseful
Tense and nervous
Tense BBC head entered in the out-of-date returns
Tense concerning 11
Tense individual drinking on vacation close to collapse
Tense, anxious
Tense, as is pupil in audition
Tense, gave instruction in speech
Tense, nervous
Tense, ready to jump?
Tense: description of border area?
Tensed
Tensely repressed
Tension-filled
Tight
Tight as a drum
Tightly drawn
Tightly stretched
Tightly strung
Twitchy
Unable to relax
Unbending
Unconventionally provocat
Under great strain
Under pressure
Under tension
Underscored
Uneasy
Unloose
Unrelaxed
Uptight
Wired
Without slack
Without wrinkles
Worried woman in Germany making a partial contribution to anything once
Wound up

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