Adjective: uptight úp'tIt
Usage: informal
Usage: informal
- 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]
- 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]
Encyclopedia: Uptight, Shara Nelson