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Definition of highly strung in English: highly strungadjectiveˌhʌɪlɪ ˈstrʌŋˌhaɪli ˈstrəŋ British Very nervous and easily upset. 〈英〉神经紧张的，易心烦的 North American term high-strung Example sentencesExamples - Like Paula, he is highly strung and not always the calming influence that his wife needs to steady her ship from time to time.
- They all seem far too highly strung to be spies.
- I'm highly strung, I can't sleep because of the stress and it's generally having a huge negative influence on me as a person.
- I can't work for someone so highly strung and hot-tempered’.
- This is a calm sport, which means there is no room for highly strung or excitable people.
- Nora Ross plays Alice's highly strung daughter Barbara, who arrives for the birthday celebrations with her henpecked husband Cormac in tow.
- To say he's highly strung is an understatement.
- ‘I wanted the character to be someone who had a real capacity to be a loving and supportive person but was also a little tightly wound and highly strung,’ says Lonergan.
- He is a highly strung, frequently petulant man.
- From a Wiltshire gentry family at Wolf Hall, which the king visited in September 1535, she was said to be quiet and amiable, while Anne was growing more highly strung and imperious.
- She is highly strung, manic, and surprisingly inarticulate for a university graduate.
- Highly intelligent individuals tend to be over-sensitive to the pin-pricks of the world, and often highly strung as well.
- Francesca Arena plays the highly strung pop diva with verve.
- And as you can imagine, the more highly strung a horse is, the harder it is to get them to stay still and jump over large obstacles without knocking them down.
- Lily was too skinny, and she was highly strung, and too interested in what other people thought of her.
- Angelo is a late twentysomething drifter, living with his highly strung Italian immigrant family in Montreal.
- His highly strung equine patients accept his ministrations with untypical docility and rarely lash out.
- Dick's parents split and he was brought up by his highly strung mother, who got him hooked on his most permanent and incurable addiction - Jungian therapy.
- Sam can be hysterical and highly strung, as well as soft-hearted and sweet.
- They're also having to give her sleeping pills and all the rest of it, because Kimberly is very highly strung.
Synonyms nervous, excitable, temperamental, sensitive, unstable, brittle, easily upset, easily agitated, on edge, edgy, jumpy, keyed up, irritable, fidgety, restive, restless, anxious, overanxious, tense, taut, stressed, overwrought, neurotic British nervy informal uptight, twitchy, wired, wound up, het up British informal strung up, stressy Australian/New Zealand informal toey dated overstrung
Definition of highly strung in US English: highly strungadjectiveˌhaɪli ˈstrəŋˌhīlē ˈstrəNG British Very nervous and easily upset; high-strung. 〈英〉神经紧张的，易心烦的 Example sentencesExamples - This is a calm sport, which means there is no room for highly strung or excitable people.
- Francesca Arena plays the highly strung pop diva with verve.
- Nora Ross plays Alice's highly strung daughter Barbara, who arrives for the birthday celebrations with her henpecked husband Cormac in tow.
- ‘I wanted the character to be someone who had a real capacity to be a loving and supportive person but was also a little tightly wound and highly strung,’ says Lonergan.
- They all seem far too highly strung to be spies.
- And as you can imagine, the more highly strung a horse is, the harder it is to get them to stay still and jump over large obstacles without knocking them down.
- Angelo is a late twentysomething drifter, living with his highly strung Italian immigrant family in Montreal.
- Highly intelligent individuals tend to be over-sensitive to the pin-pricks of the world, and often highly strung as well.
- To say he's highly strung is an understatement.
- He is a highly strung, frequently petulant man.
- Sam can be hysterical and highly strung, as well as soft-hearted and sweet.
- They're also having to give her sleeping pills and all the rest of it, because Kimberly is very highly strung.
- His highly strung equine patients accept his ministrations with untypical docility and rarely lash out.
- Lily was too skinny, and she was highly strung, and too interested in what other people thought of her.
- She is highly strung, manic, and surprisingly inarticulate for a university graduate.
- I'm highly strung, I can't sleep because of the stress and it's generally having a huge negative influence on me as a person.
- Like Paula, he is highly strung and not always the calming influence that his wife needs to steady her ship from time to time.
- From a Wiltshire gentry family at Wolf Hall, which the king visited in September 1535, she was said to be quiet and amiable, while Anne was growing more highly strung and imperious.
- Dick's parents split and he was brought up by his highly strung mother, who got him hooked on his most permanent and incurable addiction - Jungian therapy.
- I can't work for someone so highly strung and hot-tempered’.
Synonyms nervous, excitable, temperamental, sensitive, unstable, brittle, easily upset, easily agitated, on edge, edgy, jumpy, keyed up, irritable, fidgety, restive, restless, anxious, overanxious, tense, taut, stressed, overwrought, neurotic
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