uptight
/ʌpˈtaɪt/
uptight adjective: excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious.
Adjective
uptight (comparative uptighter or more uptight, superlative uptightest or most uptight)
- 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.
- Withnail: Just because the best tailoring you’ve ever seen is above your fucking appendix doesn’t mean anything. / Danny: Don’t get uptight with me, man.1987, Bruce Robinson, Withnail and I
Noun
uptight (plural uptights)
- An uptight person.
- […] bunch of uptights who can be divided into two antagonistic factions: either they are gay and suffer from an excess of the fraternity spirit, or despite reaching middle-age they are still to be found fondling runaway teenagers […]1998, Stewart Home, Suspect Device: A Reader in Hard-edged Fiction (page 59)
uptight meaning in Tamil and Kannada
uptight in Tamil
- பதற்றமான, படபடப்பான, எரிச்சலடையும், கோபமான, பாணி, மனப்பாங்கு முதலியவைகளில் மிக மரபான
uptight in Kannada
- ಬಿಗುವಿನ, ಕೋಪಿಷ್ಟನಾದ, ಗಾಬರಿಗೊಂಡ, ಸಂಪ್ರದಾಯನಿಷ್ಠ, ಹಣದ ಕೊರತೆಯುಂಟಾದ
Examples of uptight in a sentence
- My skip is helpful when my team lead is being uptight.
- He said it was because the world was full of uptight, holier-than-thou Bible-thumpers and titsy feminists.
- If she won't put out the men will accuse her of being bourgeois and uptight.
Forms of uptight
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | uptighter |
| comparative | more uptight |
| superlative | uptightest |
| superlative | most uptight |
| Noun | |
| plural | uptights |
Words formed from uptight
Words that rhyme with uptight
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- knight
- slight
- Dwight
- height
- sight
- night
- sprite
- fight
- parasite
- site
- alight
- smite
- all right
- blight
- might
- mite
- skite
- cite
- indite
- lite
- outright
- plight
- bight
- excite
- ignite
- invite
- overnight
- wight
- accite
- alright
- benight
- bewrite
- blite
- copyright
- despite
- dight
- disunite
- finite
- flite
- hight
- incite
- recite
- relight
- rewrite
- sleight
- spite
- spright
- wite
Questions about uptight
- What does uptight mean?
- Uptight means excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious.
- What is uptight in Tamil?
- Uptight in Tamil is பதற்றமான, படபடப்பான, எரிச்சலடையும். See Uptight meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is uptight?
- Uptight can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce uptight?
- Uptight is pronounced /ʌpˈtaɪt/.
Words near uptight in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: uptight (page history and authors); uptight (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); uptight (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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