HIGH STRUNG meaning: Tense, nervous, easily agitated temperament

We found 27 dictionaries that define the word high strung:

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high-strung: Merriam-Webster
high-strung: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
high-strung: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
high-strung, high-strung: Collins English Dictionary
high-strung: Vocabulary.com
High-Strung, high-strung: Wordnik
high-strung: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
high-strung: Wiktionary
high-strung: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
high-strung: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
high-strung: Infoplease Dictionary
high-strung, high strung: Dictionary.com
high-strung: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
The High Strung: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
High-strung: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
high-strung: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
high-strung: Rhymezone
High-strung: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
high-strung: FreeDictionary.org
high-strung: Mnemonic Dictionary
high-strung: TheFreeDictionary.com

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high-strung: Legal dictionary

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high-strung: Encyclopedia

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high-strung: Idioms

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high strung: The Folk File
high strung: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wikipedia (High Strung)

▸ noun: a 1992 American independent comedy film directed by Roger Nygard.
▸ noun: a 2016 American drama film directed by Michael Damian and written by Janeen Damian and Michael Damian.

Opposite:

relaxed, laid-back, calm, easygoing

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