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tense
Main Entry: tense
Synonyms:
accented, agitated, all-overish, alveolar, antsy, anxious, anxioused up, aorist, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, apprehensive, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial, bothered, brace, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, chill, chilly, chronology, close, cold, concerned, consonant, consonantal, continuant, continue, continuity, cool, dental, disaccordant, disquieted, disquieting, dissimilated, distressed, distressing, disturbed, disturbing, dorsal, drag out, dragged out, draw, draw out, drawn, drawn out, duration, durative, duree, edgy, elongate, elongated, extend, extended, fearful, fidgety, firm, flat, fluttery, foreboding, fraught, front, frosty, fussy, future, future perfect, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, haul, heave, heavy, high-strung, high, historical present, icy, imperfect, in a pucker, in a stew, in suspense, incompatible, inhospitable, inimical, intense, intonated, jittery, jumpy, keyed-up, keyed up, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lastingness, lateral, lax, lengthen, lengthen out, lengthened, let out, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, misgiving, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, nerve-racking, nervous, nervy, occlusive, on edge, on tenterhooks, on tiptoe, open, overanxious, overapprehensive, overexert, overextend, overstrain, overtax, overwrought, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, past, past perfect, perfect, period, perturbed, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, pluperfect, point tense, pokerlike, posttonic, present, present perfect, press, preterit, produce, progressive tense, prolong, prolongate, prolongated, prolonged, protract, protracted, psychological time, pull, pulled, queasy, quivering, rack, ramrodlike, reinforce, renitent, restive, restless, retroflex, rigid, rigidify, rodlike, rounded, rusty, screw up, semivowel, shore up, soft, solicitous, sonant, space-time, space, spin out, spun out, starched, starchy, stiff, stiff as buckram, stiffen, stopped, straggling, strain, strain every nerve, strained, strengthen, stress, stressed, stressful, stretch, stretch out, stretched, stretched out, stretched tight, string out, strong, strung out, surd, suspenseful, sweat blood, syllabic, taut, tauten, tax, tension, term, the future, the past, the present, thick, throaty, tide, tight, tighten, time, timebinding, tonal, tonic, trice up, troubled, tug, twangy, unaccented, unamiable, unamicable, uncordial, under a strain, uneasy, unfriendly, ungenial, unharmonious, unquiet, unrelaxed, unrestful, unrounded, unsettled, unsociable, unstressed, upset, uptight, velar, virgate, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, while, wide, with bated breath, with muscles tense, worked up, worried, worrisome, worrying, wound up, wrought up, zealous
Main entries similar to: tense
agitated, alveolar, anxious, apprehensive, assimilated, back, bilabial, bothered, brace, broad, central, cerebral, chill, chilly, chronology, close, cold, concerned, consonant, continue, continuity, cool, dental, disaccordant, disquieted, disturbed, dorsal, drag out, dragged out, draw, draw out, drawn, drawn-out, duration, edge, electric, elongate, elongated, emotional, excited, explosive, extend, extended, fearful, fidgety, firm, flat, flex, fluttery, foreboding, fraught, front, frosty, fussy, future, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, haul, heave, heavy, high, icy, imperfect, in a stew, in suspense, incompatible, inhospitable, inimical, intense, jumpy, keyed-up, labial, lateral, lax, lengthen, lengthened, let out, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, misgiving, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, nervous, nervy, occlusive, on edge, on tenterhooks, open, overanxious, overexert, overextend, overstrain, overtax, overwrought, palatal, past, perfect, period, perturbed, pharyngeal, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitched, present, press, produce, prolong, prolonged, protract, protracted, pull, quivering, rack, reinforce, renitent, restive, restless, retroflex, rigid, rounded, screw up, sensitive, shore up, sinking, soft, solicitous, sonant, space, space-time, spin out, square, starched, starchy, stiff, stiffen, stopped, straggling, strain, strained, strengthen, stress, stressed, stretch, stretch out, stretched, stretched out, string out, strong, strung out, surd, suspenseful, sweat blood, syllabic, taut, tauten, tax, term, thick, throaty, tide, tight, tighten, tonal, tonic, touchy, troubled, tug, twangy, unaccented, unamiable, unamicable, uncordial, uneasy, unfriendly, unquiet, unrelaxed, unsettled, unsociable, unstressed, uptight, voiced, voiceless, volatile, vowel, weak, while, wide, with bated breath, zealous