Usually means: Excessively complex or excessively distressed.
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  1. overwrought: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overwrought: Merriam-Webster
  3. overwrought: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overwrought: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overwrought: Collins English Dictionary
  6. overwrought: Vocabulary.com
  7. Overwrought, overwrought: Wordnik
  8. overwrought: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. overwrought: Wiktionary
  10. overwrought: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. overwrought: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. overwrought: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Overwrought, overwrought: Dictionary.com
  14. overwrought: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Overwrought: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. overwrought: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. overwrought: Rhymezone
  18. overwrought: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. overwrought: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. overwrought: FreeDictionary.org
  21. overwrought: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. overwrought: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. overwrought: Legal dictionary

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  1. overwrought: Encyclopedia

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  1. overwrought: Urban Dictionary

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adjective:  Excessively nervous, excited, tense, angry, anxious, or upset; overemotional; very uneasy.
adjective:  Elaborate; baroque; overdone.

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