overwrought

adj

1. all worked-up, all wrought-up, beside oneself, not oneself, in a state, in a dither, in a titter, atwitter, Inf. in a tizzy; overexcited, overly excited, all wound up, all keyed up, Sl. choked up; aroused, all stirred up, all whipped up, all fired up, inflamed, impassioned, carried away; frenzied, in a frenzy, frantic, corybantic, hysterical, in hysterics, feverish, delerious, maddened, crazed, wild, Inf. out of one's head, Inf. off the deep end, Sl. out of one's skull or gourd, Sl. bananas, Sl. zonkers; perturbed, vexed, annoyed, exasperated, exacerbated; incensed, furious, enraged, angry, mad, hopping mad, Inf. in a lather, Inf. steamed up, Sl. hot under the collar, U.S. Sl. hopped up; agitated, shaken, ruffled, flustered, fluttered, aquiver, disturbed, unsettled; disconcerted, disquieted, discomposed, addled, muddled, confused.

2. high-strung, highly excitable or emotional, jumpy, twitchy, jittery, fidgety, shaky; nervous, tense, on edge, touchy, irritable, oversensitive.

3. overworked, overdone, overdrawn, strained, forced, contrived; exaggerated, hyperbolic, stretching it, excessive, Inf. too much, Inf. a bit much; pretentious, chichi, affected, mannered, self-conscious, overrefined, overnice, euphemistic, Inf. too-too, Inf. la-di-da; overelegant, high-flown, extravagant, gradilo-quent, grandiose, magniloquent, pompous, ostentatious, Inf. highfalutin; gaudy, garish, overelaborate, overembellished, flowery, florid, ornate, baroque, rococo, busy.