uptight
/ʌpˈtʌɪt
/ /ˈʌptʌɪt /adjective informal
Anxious or angry in a tense and overly controlled way: he is so uptight about everything...
- You are angry, uptight and feeling the physical effects of this anxiety.
- My real dad was mad at me and my mom one day because he couldn't understand why we made fun of him when he got so angry and uptight.
- I was incredibly nervous and uptight - seeing your hero in the flesh is truly a terrifying experience.
Rhymes
- mesenteritis
- mesenterium
- mesenteron
- mesentery
- mesentoderm
- meserole
- meseta
- mesethmoid
- MESFET
- primitial
- primitive
- primitive accumulation
- Primitive Baptist
- primitive cell
- primitive circle
- primitive groove
- primitive lattice
- primitively
- Primitive Methodism
- Primitive Methodist
- Primitive Methodist Church
- Primitive Methodist Connexion
- primitiveness
- primitive plane
- primitive recursion