uptight
See also: up-tight
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
uptight (comparative uptighter, superlative uptightest)
- (colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious.
- Don't be so uptight! You won't go to jail for crossing the street against the light.
- Emotionally repressed; nervous and tense.
- (colloquial) Sexually repressed.
- He came from a very uptight religious background, but you wouldn't know that now!
- (colloquial) Unfriendly and rude.
- 1987, Withnail and I:
- Withnail: Just because the best tailoring you’ve ever seen is above your fucking appendix doesn’t mean anything.
- Danny: Don’t get uptight with me, man.
- 1987, Withnail and I:
Translations
(colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious
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Noun
uptight (plural uptights)
- (colloquial) An uptight person.