Synonym: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, in suspense, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive. Similar words: tight, tights, tighten, tightly, sit tight, hold tight, tightwad, airtight. Meaning: adj. being in a tense state.
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(1) Try to laugh at it instead of getting uptight.
(2) Tonight he is manic, wired and uptight.
(3) I was too uptight.
(4) Don't get so uptight.
(5) Relax! You're getting too uptight about it.
(6) He's feeling a bit uptight about his exam tomorrow.
(7) He gets all uptight if anyone criticizes him!
(8) I remember him when he was an uptight teenager.
(9) Penny never got uptight about exams.
(10) Offers of help just make him uptight.
(11) I get a bit uptight these days. Hormones, I suppose.
(12) Don't get uptight about the exam - just do your best.
(13) You were an uptight person all my life.
(14) Lately people seem to be so uptight.
(15) When Ian becomes uptight it can affect his game.
(16) I wish you would stop being so uptight.
(17) He is very uptight about it.
(18) He's an uptight devil[sentencedict.com], only interested in giving orders and having them obeyed.
(19) Now she's so uptight she can't relax at all and cringes even when I cuddle her.
(20) The traditionalists who cling to uptight Wall Street business wardrobes and rooms full of Hepplewhite reproductions are exiled to style Siberia.
(21) Being so uptight all the while can't be good for you.
(22) The conditions made everybody uptight, and it was very difficult to have a normal working atmosphere.
(23) She's one of those narrow-minded, uptight people who think that for a work of art to be great it can't be pleasurable.
(24) I just try not to get too uptight about anything.
(25) Most of the time he was really uptight, and to be honest, looking back, we weren't truly professional.
(26) You have to learn to laugh instead of getting uptight about things. Sentencedict.com
(27) I grew to dislike the people from my background — they were rather uptight and prissy.
(28) Where Pollock's painting is rangy, splashy, spontaneous, Johns's Target is uptight and laboriously thought out.
(29) It entails a little body contact so do not choose some one who is too uptight and of course they must be wearing a jacket.
(30) He tries to be kind, but he always seems a little uptight.
More similar words: tight, tights, tighten, tightly, sit tight, hold tight, tightwad, airtight, tightened, tightness, watertight, tightening, tight-fitting, lightweight, highlighter, highlights, high and mighty, highlight, nuptial, eruption, nuptials, irruption, disruption, corruption, prenuptial, disruptive, corruptible, incorruptible, interruption, interrupting.