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2024/4/19 -The meaning of UPTIGHT is being tense, nervous, or uneasy. How to use uptight in a sentence.

adjective · tense, nervous, or jittery. · annoyed or angry. · stiffly conventional in manner or attitudes.

worried or nervous and not able to relax: Don't get uptight about the exam - just do your best.

adjective · calm · easy · relaxed · collected · cool · nerveless · confident · sure · happy-go-lucky.

To be uptight is to be tense. When you're uptight, you're stressed out and anxious.

UPTIGHT meaning: 1 : nervous or worried and tending to become upset about something that does not make other people upset; 2 : unable or unwilling to relax ...

1. very tense, nervous, anxious, etc. 2. overly conventional or strict.

Adjective edit · (colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious. Don't be so uptight! · Emotionally repressed; nervous and tense. · ( ...

2 having strict traditional attitudes and seeming unable to relaxExamples from the Corpusuptight• He tries to be kind, but he always seems a little uptight.

​uptight (about something) (especially North American English) nervous about showing your feelings. an uptight teenager; He's a very uptight person.