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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: being in a tense state [syn: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1934 1. a. being tense, nervous, or uneasy <uptight overachievers> b. angry, indignant c. rigidly conventional <an uptight conservative> 2. being in financial difficulties • uptightness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. colloq. 1 nervously tense or angry. 2 US rigidly conventional.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Someone who is uptight is tense, nervous, or annoyed about something and so is difficult to be with. (INFORMAL) Penny never got uptight about exams... ? relaxed ADJ: usu v-link ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

accordant, anal, bourgeois, compulsive, concordant, conformist, conventional, corresponding, edgy, formalistic, harmonious, in accord, in keeping, in line, in step, kosher, nervy, orthodox, pedantic, plastic, precisianistic, restive, square, straight, strained, stretched tight, stuffy, taut, tense, traditionalist, under a strain, uneasy, unrelaxed