Style: MLA. Get Word of the Day daily email! Test Your Vocabulary. Test your visual vocabulary with our question challenge! Love words? Need even more definitions? Just between us: it's complicated. Ask the Editors 'Everyday' vs. What Is 'Semantic Bleaching'? How 'literally' can mean "figuratively". Literally How to use a word that literally drives some pe Sorry, honey. Sometimes things become more manageable just by writing them down. A top military officer I knew kept a journal during the invasion of Iraq.
He so worried and stressed that he only had time to write one haiku per day, but it helped him keep his head on straight. Here's a sample from May 11, , in case you're curious, about realizing we might have gone to war over weapons of mass destruction that didn't actually exist:. Everything looks better in the morning. It also looks better after a minute catnap. Granted, this isn't always the most practical suggestion if you're working for someone else, but if you're your own boss, it's awesome.
To my former co-worker--you know who you are--we all knew that you took naps on the couch in the second floor lounge. Nicely done. I had a friend who used to create to-do lists that included things she'd already done, just so she could go back and cross them out. I tried it once, just to put in perspective how much I'd accomplished during a particularly rough day. It worked. Studies have shown increasing your water intake improves your mood. Even though it's supposed to take longer than just drinking a bottle or two, I find that water has a placebo effect.
It makes me feel better because I know I'm doing something small that's health-positive. Sometimes you have to say no. Sometimes you even have to say, "I know I said yes before--but I have to say no now. Still, maybe it's better than getting overwhelmed and getting nothing done.
Sometimes procrastination strategies can actually be long-term productive. Maybe you don't finish the task you'd put on your to-do list for today, but you find you're in the mood to tackle something else that's been nagging at you.
As long as the timing on the first task isn't too critical I mean, if you're a trauma surgeon, maybe skip this suggestion , and you actually follow through on the second task, there's little harm done. Let's just say I'm a convert.
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Just one of those things, I guess. You rarely hear of anyone being gruntled either, except in a deliberately quirky utterance. A good article on the subject can be found here at a Word of the Day column. Billare and MrHen and mgb. Please feel free to answer, I've deleted my answer. Basically "both helm and whelm are from the same root but overwhelmed actually is posterior to whelmed which means overturned as in "capsized".
Sorry for the mess. Chastity: I know you can be overwhelmed, and you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever just be whelmed? Bianca: I think you can in Europe. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Both overwhelm and underwhelm come from the older word whelm. Whelm can mean to submerge , or it can also be a synonym for overwhelm. Someone can feel whelmed with happy feelings, for example. And, yes, whelm is still rarely used today.
Feedback See Today's Synonym. Word of the Day. Meanings Meanings. Overwhelm Overwhelm is a versatile verb.
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