adjective ~ (about sth) (informal)
1 anxious and/or angry about sth:
Relax! You're getting too uptight about it.
2 (especially AmE) nervous about showing your feelings:
I remember him when he was an uptight teenager.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for uptight is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does uptight appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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