How to pronounce“overwrought”in English
nounIPA/əʊ.vəˈɹɔːt/
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verb
simple past and past participle of overwork
adjective
Excessively nervous, excited, tense, angry, anxious, or upset; overemotional; very uneasy.
adjective
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.”
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