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What is another word for tensest?

Pronunciation: [tˈɛnsəst] (IPA)

The word 'tensest' is an adjective that implies a state of being stretched tight or tight with anxiety. Alternately, the word tensest can also mean strained or stressful. When looking for synonyms for this word, one can consider words such as edgy, uptight, anxious, nervous, worried, apprehensive, uneasy, fretful, stressed, and excitable, among others. The synonyms for tensest, therefore, are words that describe a state of worry, anxiety, or nervousness. These synonyms can be used interchangeably depending on the context or situation to convey the desired tone or emotion.
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Indeed, it is only by the tensest effort of which flesh and blood are capable that the wilderness is broken to man's domination, for throughout much of it costly mechanical appliances have not as yet displaced well-hardened muscle.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
The men of Lyon's little army lay down on their grassy bivouac with feelings of tensest expectation.
"The Struggle for Missouri"
John McElroy
Imagination being simply the tensest action of intellect, is ever, like intellect in all its phases, an instrument of feeling, a mere tool.
"Essays Æsthetical"
George Calvert

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