tensest in English

adjective

1

(especially of a muscle or someone's body) stretched tight or rigid.

she tried to relax her tense muscles

synonyms: taut, tight, rigid, stretched, strained, stiff

adjective

taut, tight, rigid, stretched, strained, stiff
anxious, nervous, on edge, edgy, antsy, strained, stressed, under pressure, agitated, ill at ease, fretful, uneasy, restless, strung out, worked up, wound up, keyed up, overwrought, jumpy, on tenterhooks, with one's stomach in knots, worried, apprehensive, panicky, neurotic, uptight, het up, stressed out, jittery, twitchy, squirrelly, in a state, a bundle of nerves
nerve-racking, stressful, anxious, worrying, fraught, charged, strained, nail-biting, suspenseful, uneasy, difficult, uncomfortable, exciting, cliffhanging, knife-edge, hairy, white-knuckle

Use "tensest" in a sentence

1. The southeastern part of the Strait of Tartary was the site of one of the tensest incidents of the Cold War, when on September 1, 1983, Korean Air Lines Flight 007, carrying 269 people including a sitting U.S. congressman, Larry McDonald, strayed into the Soviet air space and was attacked by a Soviet Su-15 interceptor just west of Sakhalin Island.