Usually means: Easily upset, tense, emotionally reactive.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word highly strung:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. highly strung: Merriam-Webster
  2. highly strung: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. highly strung: Collins English Dictionary
  4. highly strung: Vocabulary.com
  5. highly-strung: Wordnik
  6. highly-strung: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. highly strung: Dictionary.com
  8. Highly Strung (Spandau Ballet song), Highly Strung: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. highly strung: Rhymezone
  10. highly-strung: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. highly strung: FreeDictionary.org
  12. highly strung: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. highly-strung, highly strung: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. highly strung, Highly Strung: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. highly strung: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. highly-strung: Idioms

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Highly Strung)

▸ noun:  the sixth studio album by English guitarist and songwriter Steve Hackett.
▸ noun:  "Highly Strung" is a song by English new wave band Spandau Ballet, released as the third single from the 1984 album Parade.


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