uptight

2 definitions found

uptight - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  uptight
      adj 1: being in a tense state [syn: edgy, high-strung,
             highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy,
             overstrung, restive, uptight]

uptight - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "uptight":
     accordant, anal, bourgeois, compulsive, concordant, conformist,
     conventional, corresponding, edgy, formalistic, harmonious,
     in accord, in keeping, in line, in step, kosher, nervy, orthodox,
     pedantic, plastic, precisianistic, restive, square, straight,
     strained, stretched tight, stuffy, taut, tense, traditionalist,
     under a strain, uneasy, unrelaxed