tense (231 synonym found)

Tense has 231 synonyms. The top synonyms for tense are lingual, palatal, past perfect, let out, nasal, present, durative, straggling and 223 more. Another word for tense is lingual. Browse the full list below.

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lingual
palatal
past perfect
let out
nasal
present
durative
straggling
concerned
pluperfect
misgiving
wound up
monophthongal
broad
perturbed
unamicable
disquieting
lengthen out
sweat blood
stiffen
rodlike
screw up
in suspense
syllabic
vocoid
voiced
disturbing
uncordial
keyed-up
strained
solicitous
aorist
preterit
phonetic
incompatible
apical
wrought up
tauten
dorsal
the future
unstressed
anxioused up
taut
lax
stretched tight
haul
palatalized
stressed
quivering
present perfect
shore up
intonated
future perfect
overexert
agitated
unsociable
lateral
restless
grammatical category
all-overish
overwrought
cerebral
thick
twangy
elongated
muted
vocalic
prolonged
extended
dental
mid
glottal
with muscles tense
drag out
jumpy
vowel
unsettled
worrisome
sonant
checked
duree
lengthened
historical present
pulled
rack
accented
elongate
ramrodlike
pharyngeal
nerve-racking
pokerlike
edgy
labiodental
on tiptoe
past
tax
open
unquiet
drawn
stress
spun out
surd
future
overstrain
guttural
prolongated
strung out
labial
chronology
throaty
nervy
strain every nerve
under a strain
consonant
apico-alveolar
stressful
worked up
with bated breath
stretched out
virgate
fussy
ungenial
draw out
lastingness
overanxious
glossal
on edge
fearful
the past
uneasy
the present
apprehensive
timebinding
bothered
spin out
point tense
unfriendly
unharmonious
continuity
unrelaxed
alveolar
labiovelar
apico-dental
antsy
overapprehensive
pull
stopped
stretch out
space-time
nasalized
tonic
protracted
phonic
troubled
renitent
starchy
disaccordant
fluttery
cacuminal
heavy
vowellike
restive
tighten
stiff as buckram
drawn out
wide
tonal
dragged out
stretched
fraught
trice up
soft
pharyngealized
assimilated
lengthen
chilly
overtax
continue
disquieted
occlusive
tight
velar
distressing
oxytone
worrying
tide
unamiable
dissimilated
in a stew
high-strung
jittery
queasy
keyed up
phonemic
posttonic
progressive tense
stiff
suspenseful
icy
in a pucker
tension
unrestful
articulated
string out
produce
psychological time
unrounded
rusty
prolongate
nervous
starched
zealous
continuant
central
voiceless
barytone
reinforce
retroflex
anxious
inhospitable
on tenterhooks
inimical
unaccented
chill
rigidify
protract
overextend
bilabial
consonantal
pitched
semivowel

Frequently asked questions

What is a synonym for tense?

A common synonym for tense is lingual. Other synonyms include palatal, past perfect, let out, nasal.

How many synonyms does tense have?

Tense has 231 synonyms listed on Thesaurasize.

What does tense mean?

(n): any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists.

Definition of tense:

(n) : any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists. The basic tenses in English are present, past and future. English also has perfect tenses (present perfect, past perfect and future perfect) and progressive tenses
(adj) : Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed; pulled taut, without any slack
(v) : to make or become tense
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Definition of tense:

(n) : any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists. The basic tenses in English are present, past and future. English also has perfect tenses (present perfect, past perfect and future perfect) and progressive tenses
(adj) : Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed; pulled taut, without any slack
(v) : to make or become tense
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