Related Content
- Daily Word Quiz: procrastinate
- Analogy of the Day: Today’s Analogy
- Spelling Bee: Today’s Spelling Bee
- Frequently Misspelled Words
- Frequently Mispronounced Words
- Easily Confused Words
- Writing & Language
overwrought: Meaning and Definition of
o•ver•wrought
Pronunciation: (ō'vur-rôt', ō"vur-), [key]
— adj.
- extremely or excessively excited or agitated: to become overwrought on hearing bad news; an overwrought personality.
- elaborated to excess; excessively complex or ornate: written in a florid, overwrought style.
- wearied or exhausted by overwork.
See also:
- overwrought (Thesaurus)
