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highwrought

highwrought adjective: highly excited; overwrought; worked up.

Adjective

highwrought (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Highly 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 height1749, [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

Origin of highwrought

From high + wrought.

Questions about highwrought

What does highwrought mean?
Highwrought means highly excited; overwrought; worked up.
What part of speech is highwrought?
Highwrought is an adjective.

Words near highwrought in the dictionary

  1. highwire-walker
  2. highwire-walkers
  3. highwires
  4. Highwood
  5. Highworth
  6. highwrought
  7. Higinbotham
  8. Higinbothams
  9. Higley
  10. Higleys
  11. Higman

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