uptight
noun1
Colloquial An uptight person.
- Related terms
- anal-retentive, petty bourgeois, narrow-minded, stuffy
uptight
adj/ʌpˈtaɪt/
1
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.
2
Emotionally repressed; nervous and tense.
3
Colloquial Sexually repressed.
- He came from a very uptight religious background, but you wouldn't know that now!
4
Colloquial Unfriendly or rude.
- 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, Bruce Robinson, Withnail and I: