Usually means: Anxious, rigid, overly controlled behavior.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. uptight: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. uptight: Merriam-Webster
  3. uptight: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. uptight: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. uptight: Collins English Dictionary
  6. uptight: Vocabulary.com
  7. Uptight, uptight: Wordnik
  8. uptight: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. uptight: Wiktionary
  10. uptight: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. uptight: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. uptight: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. uptight: Dictionary.com
  14. uptight: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. uptight: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. UpTight (soundtrack), Uptight (Everything's Alright), Uptight (Shara Nelson song), Uptight (TV series), Uptight (film), Uptight: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. uptight: Rhymezone
  18. uptight: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. uptight: FreeDictionary.org
  20. uptight: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. uptight: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. uptight: Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. uptight, uptight, uptight, uptight: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. uptight: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. uptight: ESL Slang page

(Note: See uptightness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious.
adjective:  Emotionally repressed; nervous and tense.
adjective:  (colloquial) Sexually repressed.
adjective:  (colloquial) Unfriendly or rude.
noun:  (colloquial) An uptight person.

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