1. adjective. in a state of nervous behavior. 2. stretched taut or strained. 3. with regard to language, one of a group of forms taken by a verb in effort to identify the correlation between the time of the purported action and the time of the utterance.
TENSE: "A poor education is often visible in the incorrect grammar of individuals, such as when mixing tenses in one statement."
Cite this page: N., Sam M.S., "TENSE," in PsychologyDictionary.org, April 29, 2013, https://psychologydictionary.org/tense/ (accessed March 22, 2023).
