Word: Tense
How to pronounce: tens
Adjective
Definitions:
1. (especially of a muscle or someone's body) stretched tight or rigid.
Example sentences: "She tried to relax her tense muscles"
Intransitive verb
Definitions:
1. Become tense, typically through anxiety or nervousness.
Example sentences: "Her body tensed up"
Noun
Definitions:
1. A set of forms taken by a verb to indicate the time (and sometimes also the continuance or completeness) of the action in relation to the time of the utterance.
Example sentences: "The past tense"
Synonyms:
strenuous
stressful
strained
intense
uptight
taut
tight
rigid
strain
disquieting
anxious
fraught
uneasy
stressed
nervous
nervy
stretch
jumpy
Antonyms:
calm
Derivations:
tenseness
tension
tenser
tensity
tensed
tensing
tensely
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Tense in Other Languages...
Spanish: Tenso
German: Anspannen
French: Tendu
Italian: Teso
Turkish: Gergin
