uptight
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 7
/ʌpˈtaɪt/
Definition of uptight
5 senses · 2 parts of speech
adj
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(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.”
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adj
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(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.
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(colloquial)Sexually repressed.
“He came from a very uptight religious background, but you wouldn't know that now!”
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(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.”
noun
- (colloquial)An uptight person.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
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