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Adjective: uptight  úp'tIt
Usage: informal
  1. Being in a tense state
    "uptight parents are sensitive themselves";
    - edgy, high-strung, highly strung [Brit], jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, high-keyed, squirrelly [N. Amer, informal]
     
  2. Exaggeratedly proper
    "my uptight Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts";
    - priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed [archaic], straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian, bluenosed [US, informal]

See also: proper, tense

Encyclopedia: Uptight, Shara Nelson