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tenso.

tense (showing stress or strain)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈtẽ.su/Brazil/ˈtẽ.su/Portugal

  1. tense (showing stress or strain)

    Este ambiente está te deixando tenso.

  2. difficult; complicated

    Brazil · slang
    Eu acho tensa essa matéria na escola.

  3. derisively different; weird

    Brazil · slang
    O estilo dos punks é bem tenso.
Where this word comes from

Learned borrowing from Latin tēnsus. Doublet of teso.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.