tense 的 2 个定义
tens·er, tens·est.
- stretched tight, as a cord, fiber, etc.; drawn taut; rigid.
- in a state of mental or nervous strain; high-strung; taut: a tense person.
- characterized by a strain upon the nerves or feelings: a tense moment.
- Phonetics. pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles; narrow. Compare lax.
tensed, tens·ing.
- to make or become tense.
tense 近义词
tight, stretched
under stress, pressure
tense 的近义词 47 个
- agitated
- anxious
- apprehensive
- edgy
- excited
- jittery
- nervous
- restive
- shaky
- strained
- stressful
- uneasy
- choked
- clutched
- concerned
- moved
- moving
- shot
- unnerved
- wired
- worried
- worrying
- wreck
- beside oneself
- bundle of nerves
- fidgety
- fluttery
- high-strung
- hung up
- hyper
- in a tizzy
- jumpy
- keyed up
- nerve-racking
- nervous wreck
- on edge
- overanxious
- overwrought
- queasy
- restless
- shot to pieces
- strung out
- unquiet
- up the wall
- uptight
- white knuckled
- wound up
tense 的反义词 14 个
更多tense例句
- Turkish has an inferential tense marked by the suffix -miş, which you have to add to verbs whenever you are talking about something you did not personally see or something that you doubt.
- Landau seemed incredibly nice, but I found the mood strangely tense.
- Elections are always tense, but this year was something different.
- A tense advertising landscape in fourth quarter 2019 for Dow Jones — which includes The Wall Street Journal and Barron’s — saw its digital advertising revenue tumble by 7%.
- In this case, it appears those processes have failed, and at a moment when relations between China and India – both nuclear armed states – are already tense.
- The gym—a fragile collective of human ecology at the best of times—has suddenly become even more tense.
- A tense commute to work in Houston will start to resemble a tense commute in Boston or New York City.
- Elisabetta Piqué, who knew Bergoglio well as a cardinal, writes in the present tense as if to convey real time passing.
- I covered New York politics for 15 years, and I saw some awfully tense moments between the police and Democratic politicians.
- Since Nestdrop continues to do so as of this writing, they wager a tense gamble that the odds will be in their favor.
- Then, as the atmosphere of the room surged back, tense with vitality, her mind leapt forward in welcome.
- He crouched, nerves and muscles tense, controled in spite of the torturous cloud of scalding vapor that pressed close to him.
- The two men eyed one another for a moment of tense silence, and marked suspicion.
- A faint click reaches my tense ear, the streaming lightning burns into my face.
- Will you tell us more about it, please, she whispered in a strange, tense voice; its soso difficult to understand.