wound up

1. 1.

   brought to a state of great tension

   “all wound up for a fight”

   Synonymsaroused

   Similartense

Questions about wound up

What does wound up mean?

wound up means "brought to a state of great tension".

What is another word for wound up?

Close synonyms include aroused. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wound up a common word?

wound up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.