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PRONUNCIATION OF HIGHLY STRUNG

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HIGHLY STRUNG

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Highly strung is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HIGHLY STRUNG MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of highly strung in the English dictionary

The definition of highly strung in the dictionary is tense and easily upset; excitable; nervous.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HIGHLY STRUNG

highland
Highland cattle
Highland Clearances
Highland dress
Highland fling
Highland Games
Highlander
Highlands
highlife
highlight
highlighter
highlights
highly
highly charged
highly paid
highly rated
highly trained
highman
highmost
highness

WORDS THAT END LIKE HIGHLY STRUNG

hamstrung
Hertzsprung
high-strung
interior-sprung
overstrung
quersprung
re-strung
rung
sprung
strung
unsprung
unstrung
unwrung
upsprung
wrung

Synonyms and antonyms of highly strung in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «highly strung» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HIGHLY STRUNG

Find out the translation of highly strung to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of highly strung from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «highly strung» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

高度紧张
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

muy nervioso
570 millions of speakers

English

highly strung
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अत्यधिक भावुक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

موتر للغاية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

нервный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

excitadíssima
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অত্যন্ত অভিমানী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

nerveux
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sangat terikat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Highly Strung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

非常に神経質
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

매우 중독
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Banget strung
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

xâu thành chuỗi cao
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மிகவும் குறைவானது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अत्यंत संवेदनशील
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

son derece sinirli
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

altamente infilate
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bardzo nawleczone
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нервовий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

extrem de strung
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

νευρώδη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hoogs gespan
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

starkt strung
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

stressede
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of highly strung

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HIGHLY STRUNG»

The term «highly strung» is regularly used and occupies the 76.821 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HIGHLY STRUNG» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about highly strung

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HIGHLY STRUNG»

Discover the use of highly strung in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to highly strung and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Bleeding Hearts: Love Poems for the Nervous and Highly Strung
A poetry collection featuring the work of such writers as e. e. cummings, Maya Angelou, and Dorothy Parker captures love's agonizing moments, broken hearts, and fluttering hopes, avoiding the falsely sentimental and cutting to the sometimes ...
Michelle Lovric, 1998
2
100 Ways to Improve Your Horse's Behavior
Manage a highly strung horse Highly strung horses can shake the confidence of many riders, usually those who are not particularly brave (and there's nothing wrong with that) or those who have had one fall too many and feel that anything ...
Susan Mcbane, 2005
3
Food of Love: Highly Strung
She seems doomed to failure, until a trip to his home country changes everything... Reader Advisory: This book contains m nage relationships, bisexual characters and exhibitionism/voyeurism, plus some scenes of angst.
Justine Elyot, 2012
4
Family Ties
"Thin and highly strung," her mother added decisively. "Thin and highly strung," assented Catherine patiently. He was a nervous and distracted child. During his grandmother's visit he had become even more distant and he had started to sleep ...
Clarice Lispector, 1972
5
Bach Flower Remedy Repertoires – Part Two: Larch to White ...
VERVAINandCHERRY PLUM—Tension andstress attending desperate situations and suicidal thoughts; violent impulses; highly strung; hysteria. MARS INTHE SIXTH: VERVAIN and CERATO — Tension and stress aggravated by selfdistrust ...
Dr. Douglas M. Baker, DGG, 2014
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A Short Introduction to Promoting Resilience in Children
A conventional term for people whose arousal fluctuates in the higher range is that these people are 'highly-strung'. Conversely, a conventional term for people whose arousal fluctuates in the lower range is that these people are 'laidback'.
Colby Pearce, 2011
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Sleep, Potty Training, and Breast-feeding: Top Tips from the ...
Highly Strung parents are sensitive themselves. They may be shy, so it's hard for them to reach out to other parents for company and support. Highly Strung moms often get weepy and feel incompetent in the early days of motherhood; Highly ...
Tracy Hogg, Melinda Blau, 2011
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Harrap's essential English Dictionary
2 You use highly to mean 'to or at a high level': You're too highly qualified for this job. □ highly paid officials. 3 You think highly of someone or something if you approve of them: She speaks very highly of your work. highly Strung /haih 'strArj/  ...
‎1996
9
A Secret Madness: The Story of a Marriage
'Here we are — “nervous”; this is the bit that caught my eye: Having disordered or delicate nerves, excitable, highly strung, easily agitated, timid. 'All those definitions seemed fairly straightforward to me,' I said, 'except for “highly strung”.
Elaine Bass, 2010
10
Embodied Shame: Uncovering Female Shame in Contemporary ...
Rather than being cast out of the family circle, Del is not only forgiven but her behavior is excused as the kind of “hysterical” behavior to be expected when a “ highly strung” girl such as Del is made to go to a funeral (64, 63). “As long as they  ...
J. Brooks Bouson, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HIGHLY STRUNG»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term highly strung is used in the context of the following news items.
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Jeff Beck's Yardbirds tenure was brief, but influential: 'Highly strung
Sitdown. “Jeff was a pretty wild character, very highly strung and unpredictable. When it worked with him it was great, but could be very difficult.”. «Something Else! Reviews, Jul 15»
2
Watch your backs, everyone: I haven't slept for three years » The …
If you are in any way eccentric, creative, artistic, highly strung — whatever you want to call it — then the menopause will in all likelihood turn ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jul 15»
3
Australian cricketer turns out to be not so good at cricket - Mashable
He has been genetically blessed with sinews so highly strung they make Bobcat Goldthwaite appear like a warm Milo. Then when the beefy ... «Mashable, Jul 15»
4
15 Of The Best Music Documentaries From The Past 15 Years
It's refreshing to see metal/rock'n'roll legend Lemmy remind us that not all metal fans are highly strung. It's mainly in his dry, bleak sense of ... «The 405, Jul 15»
5
Review: Spandau Ballet roll back the years at Westonbirt
Starting with 'Soul Boy', Spandau began a cleverly crafted set with some of their more well known tunes including Highly Strung, Only When ... «Bristol Post, Jul 15»
6
Westonbirt enjoys musical magic in the forest
... as Highly Strung, Only When You Leave and Chant Number One. Of course the really big hits were left for the end - Communication, Lifeline, ... «Gazette Series, Jul 15»
7
sprocker spaniel | sprocker puppies | Shooting UK
They tend not to be as highly strung as the springer nor as stubborn as the cocker, but they have retained that important drive that enables them ... «ShootingUK, Jul 15»
8
Madras miscellany: The iron pier
But not the child's hysterical mother, Elizabeth (Zillie) Penn, a highly strung young woman. She accused the child's ayah, 16-year-old Mary ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
9
Welsh actor Roger Rees, of West Wing and Cheers, dies aged 71
Rees was probably best known to Australian audiences as the highly strung British ambassador, Lord John Marbury, on popular political series ... «ABC Online, Jul 15»
10
Something to laugh about
Her performance as the neurotic, highly strung Vice President of America (who later graduates to become President) is a marvel of comic timing ... «Hindustan Times, Jul 15»

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