MELLOWER Antonyms

• eagerly desirous

• causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

• being in a tense state

• possessing or exerting or displaying energy

• working hard to promote an enterprise

• bearing a stress or accent

• suffering severe physical strain or distress

• in or of a state of physical or nervous tension

• pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')

• taut or rigid; stretched tight

• a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time

• become stretched or tense or taut

• increase the tension on

• become tense, nervous, or uneasy

• cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious

• being in a tense state

• evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures

• a volatile substance; a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor

• liable to lead to sudden change or violence

• marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments

• tending to vary often or widely