1. (imp. & p. p.) of Strain.

2. (a.) Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends.

3. (a.) Done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained.

Herculean agitated all-overish anxious anxioused up apprehensive arduous artificial awkward backbreaking biased bothered burdensome chill chilly cold concerned cooked cool crushing difficult disaccordant disquieted distant disturbed doctored dragged out drawn drawn out effortful elongated extended farfetched fearful forced foreboding frosty garbled grueling hard-earned hard-fought heavy hefty icy improbable in a pucker in a stew incompatible inhospitable inimical insincere killing labored laborious lengthened misgiving misquoted misrepresented nervous on tenterhooks onerous operose oppressive out-of-the-way overanxious overapprehensive painful perturbed perverted prolongated prolonged protracted pulled punishing put-on quite another thing remote self-conscious slanted solicitous something else again spun out stiff straggling strenuous stretched stretched out stretched tight strung out suspenseful taut tense tight toilsome tortured tough troubled troublesome twisted unamiable unamicable uncomfortable uncordial under a strain uneasy unfriendly ungenial unharmonious unnatural unrelaxed unsociable uphill uptight wearisome zealous