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What is the adjective for overwrought?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb overwork which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

overwrought
  1. Excessively nervous, excited, tense, angry, anxious, or upset; filled with emotion, emotional; very uneasy.
  2. Elaborate; overdone.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “She explains that animation was used as a tool to dramatize the passionate, hysterical, overwrought and angry elements of teenagers' lives.”
      “His account of his road trip has an endearingly amateurish quality, not least because of the author's penchant for mixed metaphors and overwrought prose.”
      “His soliloquies on fate and historical accidence, delivered to an overwrought Monty Bodkin, are among the best things that Wodehouse ever wrote.”
overworked
  1. Subjected to too much work.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Coffee was just the thing for an overworked doctor who needed the caffeine to keep them on their toes through the long shifts.”
      “The banality of evil may be an overworked phrase, but it applies here.”
      “She has already resumed her rigorous stollen-baking schedule, a regimen into which she was indoctrinated as an overworked extern at Bouley.”
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