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overwrought
Synonyms and Antonyms of overwrought
- became overwrought when she heard that her child was missing
- the author's prose is overwrought with purple passages and florid metaphors
extravagant, flamboyant, spectacular, splashy
bedaubed, flashy, garish, gaudy, glitzy, loud, ostentatious, pretentious, showy, swank (or swanky), tawdry
adorned, arrayed, beautified, bedecked, decked, decorated, dressed, embellished, enriched, garnished, ornamented, trimmed
enhanced, heightened, intensified
bejeweled (or bejewelled), bossed, chased, emblazoned, embossed, embroidered, flounced, fringed, garlanded, gilded (or gilt), laced, sequined (or sequinned), wreathed
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