Uptight : (과하게)긴장한, 초초해하는, 가만히 못 있는, (규칙/형식/전통 등을) 과하게 따지는, 인습적인, 심하게 격식을 차리는, 딱딱한, 격식적인, 고루한, (신경질적인)화난, 분개한, 신경이 거슬리는, (성적으로)억눌린, 억압된, 긴장한, (지나치게)까다로운 사람, 지나치게 꼼꼼한 사람, 완벽주의자
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This is an informal adjective
that describes a person who's worried, nervous and completely unable to relax
What are you so uptight about?
I know you are uptight about your upcoming exams but you just need to relax
worried, nervous, restive, tense, taut, not able to relax, particularly overly so too much
I think this has an idea of neuritic, somebody perhaps who worries too much
if you are uptight, you are nervous about it, you are not happy about it
he always gets very uptight when he has to make a presentation
I think people tend to get uptight about exams
they are repressed
somebody who is uptight, they are edgy, highly strung, jumpy, jittery, and they are on edge
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I think also we use uptight to say that somebody is excessively concerned with rules or with order, they are always very serious
he is always uptight about meeting the social niceties
he came from a very uptight traditional backgrounds
they are stuffy and conventional with their attitudes
But I think calling somebody uptight, you are being a little bit critical as well
if you describe somebody as uptight, they are always worried about things and everything should be right , they are overly formal
the attitude of this company is very uptight, you need to dress formally and you need to behave formally and you can't joke about
an uptight attitude, somebody who is concerned about the rules or about order
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I guess you could also say that somebody who is angry is uptight
come on don't get uptight about this, there is no reason to get angry, don't be indignant about it
a lot of people got uptight about the jokes i told in the party, mayby at the party they were a bit risque maybe they are such uptight traditionalists that they are not going to find things like that funny
if someone is uptight, they are nervous, they are annoyed, they are difficult to be with
the supporters started to get very uptight when they saw their team go one-nil down
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I guess we could also use uptight to mean sexually repressed
his upbringing was so uptight, his youth was so uptight that it made him very nervous just to be in the presence of a girl
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I guess you could say, a person is an uptight, as a noun
an uptight, person who is perhaps anally retentive as well
they are worried that everything has got to be exactly right and there can't be any problems or any difficulty
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