Meanings
- not comparableNot strung; having had the strings undone or removed.
- informalnot comparableEmotionally upset; not able to keep it together.
Waking up in the small room, you feel dull, stupid, gloomy, oppressed, yawny, lax, and all unstrung in body and mind...
1848, Orson Squire Fowler, A Home for All1 more example
“Why, Jane,” he cried, “what do you mean? What has our providential rescue to do with altering your feelings toward me? You are but unstrung—tomorrow you will be yourself again.”
1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 183
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of unstring
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveemotionally upset
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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unstrung. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unstrung
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