verklempt

9 synonyms and 1 antonym for verklempt, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.

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

Synonyms

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concerned

Less common

Still standard English, but they carry more weight.

disturbed anxious

Rare, literary or technical

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jittery apprehensive jumpy fraught edgy distraught

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

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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