verklempt

1 antonym for verklempt — opposites grouped by meaning.

Adj — (informal) So full of emotion that you can hardly speak.

Synonyms by Meaning

1. adj

(informal) So full of emotion that you can hardly speak.

Opposites

imperturbable

2. adj

(informal) Nervous, flustered and unable to think clearly.

disturbed concerned jittery apprehensive jumpy fraught anxious edgy distraught

Antonyms

imperturbable

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish פֿאַרקלעמט (farklemt, “depressed, distraught; choked up”). The English spelling was influenced by the German prefix ver- corresponding to Yiddish פֿאַר־ (far-). German verklemmt (“uptight”, literally “jammed”) is formally cognate, but semantically unrelated; a closer match is beklommen (“anxious,...

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