highwrought

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adjective

Highly excited; overwrought; worked up.

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Meanings

adjectivehighwrought (not comparable)
  1. archaicnot comparableHighly excited; overwrought; worked up.

    The downy cloth of our meeting mounts was now of real use to break the violence of the tilt; and soon, too soon indeed! the highwrought agitation, the sweet urgency of this to-and-fro friction, raised the titillation on me to its height

    Fanny Hill

    1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
excitedintoxicate

Origin

From high + wrought.

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APA

highwrought. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/highwrought

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“highwrought.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/highwrought. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “highwrought,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/highwrought.

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