Strained [adjective]

Definition of Strained:

forced, pretended

Synonyms of Strained:

● Uneasy

● Stiff

● Tight

● Labored

● Tense

● Constrained

● Embarrassed

● Put

● Wired

● Wreck

● Artificial

● Awkward

● Difficult

● Farfetched

● Self-conscious

● Taut

● Uncomfortable

● Unnatural

● Uptight

● Choked

● False

● At end of rope

● Hard put

● In a state

● Nervous wreck

● Strung out

● Unglued

● Unrelaxed


Opposite/Antonyms of Strained:

● Genuine

● Relaxed

● Slack

● Loose

● Calm

● Easy

● Easy-going

● Comfortable

● Unforced

● Laid-back


Sentence/Example of Strained:

Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection.

I strained a sinew on the day that I slew the three men at Castelnau.

In the dim hall light he realized that her face was strained and set.

"It's over the pulling of Lucretia," a man said, simply to relieve his strained feelings.

Then very clearly Eileen's voice, sharp and strained, reached her ears.

Then put in the strained blood and simmer it for another hour, at least.

Stir it a few minutes, and then add to it the strained gravy.

She had not strained it all, and the sea-weed was drying on the sieve.

They strained so hard, that one of them dropped its eye out.

The quality of mercy is strained, and is no longer twice blest.