adj.: stressed, edgy, jumpy, anxious, easily upset or annoyed, making one hold one's breath, uptight, tremulous, tonic, tensional, taut, suspenseful, stressful, tense, strenuous, strained, nervous, intensional, intense, hot, hectic, corded, chronic, charged, agonistic
Thesaurus
get across breathless extreme, hard, exquisite, intensive, extreme, exquisite, lupine, extravagant, off, strongly felt, most liable, of the highest degree or intensity, enthusiastic, burning, cordial, giving enthusiastic praise, drastic, terrific, shrill, no sober, passionate, imponderable, take a lot of suppositive, immeasurable, extra, king-size, cutthroat, murderous, acerb, robust, husky, reluctant, affected, agonistic, stiff, tensile, tensile, hard, almighty, drawn, hard, absurd, unconscionable, undreamed, perverse, outrageous, affected, affected, more than necessary, going beyond the limits of what is reasonable or just, reluctant, averse, vehement apoplectic, wrathful, erubescent, cantankerous, crabbed, aglow, fidgety, nervous, crabbed, fervid, having a quick effect on the senses, edgy, testy, energetic, pert ablaze, agitated, angry, roused to anger, indignation, etc, nervous
Containing Phrases
lax
nervous
electrotonic
fussy
(the) most tense
flesh tense
nervous
suspenseful
nervous or frightened
causing tenseness
nervously tense
unslaked
uptight
hypertonic
jumpy
vasotonic
intense life
strained relations
strenuous examination
tense second
disarming
in the thick of
tense J-Roger
condition when feelings are tense or relations between people, groups, etc are strained
nerve-racking
a suspensive novel
a suspenseful drama
nervous
heighteningtension
Tense Tension or extent
a supercharged city
Tense Employment advancement of issue
Tense Beachhead exploit Contend war
fun
And Employment Relevant Other Body and Tension of issue