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highly strung

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highly strung US and Canadian, high-strung
adj
tense and easily upset; excitable; nervous
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Adj.1.highly strunghighly strung - being in a tense state              
jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight, edgy, high-strung, jittery
tense - in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
Translations
highly strung
adj (Brit) → nervös


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"She always was highly strung," pursued Henry, leaning back in the car as it shot past the church.
Howards End by Forster, E. M. View in context
But immediately after he added a "Very highly strung young person indeed," which unsettled me again.
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I determined to say nothing about the former to my wife, for she is a nervous, highly strung woman, and I had no wish that she would share the unpleasant impression which had been produced upon myself.
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