😰 Extremely nervous 🩺 High blood pressure 💪 Very tight

hypertense

8.4

Very nervous and tense because of worry

adjective
/ˈhaɪpərˌtɛns/

: hipertenso

The athletes were hypertense before the championship game, their nerves palpable in the locker room.

Examples

After the presentation, she felt hypertense from the overwhelming pressure to succeed.
Most of these young minds are occupied with the myriad concerns of adolescence, and many of these growing bodies are stressed, fatigued, hypertense, or unresponsive.

Academic text (1996)
He was hypertense about the upcoming exam, unable to relax for even a moment.

Synonyms

overstressed

vshypertense

2 5.1

Feeling too much stress and unable to cope

is intense nervous anxiety and emotional tension rather than external pressure

hyperemotional

vshypertense

1 7.9

Showing very strong feelings that change quickly and seem too much

is more about anxious nervous tension than shifting emotional outbursts

Antonyms

calm

735 1.0

Not showing strong feelings and being very still

relaxed

241 1.0

Calm and not worried

How Tense

hypertense

8.4

anxious

201 2.7

tense

310 3.6

nervous

∞ 1.3

uneasy

98 3.2

Surface Forms

hypertense positive

hypertenser comparative

hypertenseest superlative

Morphology

hypertense = tense (transparent) = hyper + tense

Clear prefixation: hyper- intensifies 'tense' to mean excessively tense or anxious.

Etymology

Hypertense combines hyper- meaning 'too much' and tense meaning 'tight' or 'nervous'. So, to be hypertense is like being 'too tightly wound' with anxiety.