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Vinony

overwrought

adjective

  1. in a state of anxiety
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /əʊ.vəˈɹɔːt/

adj

Etymology: Past participle of overwork; equivalent to over- + wrought.

  1. Excessively nervous, excited, tense, angry, anxious, or upset; overemotional; very uneasy.
  2. Elaborate; baroque; overdone.

    “Her book includes an incisive discussion of misogyny on the New Right. [Laura K.] Field notes how “gynocracy” and “the longhouse” have become overwrought MAGA epithets for an unbearably feminized and pluralist society.”

verb

Etymology: Past participle of overwork; equivalent to over- + wrought.

  1. simple past and past participle of overwork