Words and phrases that have a meaning related to tense: (261 results)
Antonyms:
at ease, decompress, lax, loosen up, make relaxed, relax, relaxed, slow down, unbend, unlax, unstrain, unwind
Often used in the same context:
testy, tension, acrimonious, uneasy, fractious, tetchy, chaotic, contentious, rancorous, heated, nervy, unsettled, precarious, jittery, stressful, dicey, cordial, stormy, hectic, frantic, touchy, intense, awkward, calmer, combative, uncomfortable, tenuous, anxious, frosty, flashpoint, agitated, enthralling, bitter, surreal, turbulent, frenetic, volatile, gripping, seesaw, nervous, tight, jumpy, confrontational, tumultuous, raucous, suspenseful, sombre, acrimony, shaky, pressure cooker, lively, perilous, somber, chummy, unpredictable, antagonistic, placid, aitch, relaxed, prickly, tempestuous, fraught, skirmishes, thrilling, jovial, taut, grim, chilly, eventful, deadlocked, chippy, ticklish, jubilant, strained, stalemate, conflictive, pulsating, frayed, boisterous, subdued, combustive, tricky, angry, hushed, rocky, riveting, quiet, quarrelsome, fidgety, delicate, climactic, antsy, unforthcoming, harrowing, bleak, anticlimactic, frenzied, attritional, unstable, disharmonious, tortuous, rowdy, tenses, imperfect, participle, passive, verb, participles, singular, adjective, infinitive, inflection, simple, subject, subjunctive, conjugations, inflections, suffix, antecedent, modals, morpheme, nominative, distressful, frustrating, edgy, breathless, changed, carefree, happier, hopeful, restful, saddest, sorrowful
More specific:
aorist, continuous tense, crick, extend, future, future tense, imperfect tense, past, past tense, perfect, perfective, perfective tense, perfect tense, present, present tense, progressive, progressive tense, stretch
Appears in the definition of:
., aorist, aoristic, clutch, conjugate, constricted, continuous tense, decompress, devoice, discomfort, disquietude, edginess, edgy, electric, enallage, finite, future, future perfect, future perfect tense, future progressive, future progressive tense, future tense, high-strung, highly strung, historical present, icebreaker, imperfect, imperfect tense, infinitive, inflectional, inquietude, in suspensep, jittery, jumpy, loose, loosen up, nervy, overstrung, past, past perfect, past perfect tense, past progressive, past progressive tense, past tense, perfect, perfective, perfective tense, perfect tense, pluferfect tense, pluperfect, present, present perfect, present perfect tense, present progressive, present progressive tense, present tense, preterit, preterite, progressive, progressive tense, pumped-upa, pumpedp, pumped upp, relax, relaxed, restive, slack, slow down, strain, tensed, tensely, tense up, tensor, thermotherapy, unbend, uncomfortableness, uneasiness, unwind, uptight, use, wired
More general:
alter, change, change state, grammatical category, syntactic category, tighten, turn
Synonyms:
Also try:aroused, cliff-hanging, drawn, in suspense, isotonic, pumped-up, pumped up, suspensive, unrelaxed, wound up
— Nouns for tense: situation, silence, atmosphere, form, moment, muscles, forms, moments, marker, situations, relations, more...
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