unstrung

1. 1.

   emotionally upset

   “the incident left him unstrung and incapable of rational effort”

   Similardiscomposed

Other forms of unstrung

comparative

unstrunger·

superlative

unstrungest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about unstrung

What does unstrung mean?

unstrung means "emotionally upset".

How many syllables are in unstrung?

unstrung has 2 syllables: un-strung. The stress falls on "un".

Is unstrung a common word?

unstrung is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.