uptight
Meaning of uptight
noun
An uptight person.
adjective- 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.
- Sexually repressed.
He came from a very uptight religious background, but you wouldn't know that now!
- Unfriendly and rude.
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Hyphenation of uptight
up-tight
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- uptight is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
uptight synonyms
Meaning edgy:
edgy, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive
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Words that rhyme with uptight
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