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uptight
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective uptight has 1 sense
- uptight(s = adj.all) edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive - being in a tense state; Array
THESAURUS
uptight
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
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