uptight.
Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious.
Meaning & usage
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 or rude.
An uptight person.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.