What are the opposite words for easy-going?
If you're looking for an antonym for the word "easy-going," you'll find a range of words that convey the opposite meaning. Some of the most common antonyms for easy-going include uptight, anxious, nervous, severe, demanding, rigid, and high-strung. While easy-going suggests a relaxed, laid-back approach to life, these antonyms imply a more tense and less flexible attitude. They may be used to describe individuals who are overly concerned with details or who become easily stressed in challenging situations. Ultimately, the choice of antonym will depend on the context in which it is used and the intended tone of the message.
- easy-going
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severe
- severe,
- unsmiling,
- iron-handed,
- Over-bearing,
- dis approving,
- dis-approving,
- in tense,
- in tenser,
- in-tense,
- in-tenser,
- in-tensest,
- iron handed,
- more disapproving,
- more iron handed,
- more iron-handed,
- more unsmiling,
- most disapproving,
- most iron handed,
- most unsmiling,
- over bearing,
- strait laced,
- tight lipped,
- un alterable,
- un changing,
- un feeling,
- un pleasant,
- un smiling,
- un-alterable,
- un-changing,
- un-pleasant,
- un-smiling.
- precise
- irritable
- energetic
- compulsive
-
aggressive
- flipper,
- go after,
- offensive,
- Assertory,
- hawkish,
- anti pathetic,
- anti-pathetic,
- flippest,
- get and go,
- get up and go,
- get up go,
- more advancing,
- more assailing,
- more attacking,
- more encroaching,
- more hawkish,
- more intruding,
- more invading,
- most advancing,
- most assailing,
- most assertory,
- most attacking,
- most encroaching,
- most hawkish,
- most intruding,
- most invading,
- shooting from hip,
- shooting from the hip,
- smart alecky.
-
excited
- aflame,
- steamed up,
- in a tizzy,
- over-wrought,
- de lighted,
- de-lighted,
- dis composed,
- dis concerted,
- dis-composed,
- dis-concerted,
- ex cited,
- ex-cited,
- hot bothered,
- hyper active,
- hyper-active,
- in flamed,
- in tizzy,
- in-flamed,
- juiced up,
- more aroused,
- more awakened,
- more discomposed,
- more piqued,
- more roused,
- more ruffled,
- more stirred,
- most aflame,
- most aroused,
- most awakened,
- most discomposed,
- most piqued,
- most roused,
- most ruffled,
- most stirred,
- tumultous tumultuous,
- tumultous-tumultuous,
- tumultoustumultuous,
- zipped up.
- slack
-
excitable
- excitable,
- fidgety,
- galvanic,
- hysterical,
- mercurial,
- overzealous,
- reckless,
- temperamental,
- volcanic,
- Agitable,
- Alarmable,
- Hot-headed,
- over-zealous,
- ex citable,
- ex-citable,
- hot headed,
- in flammable,
- in tolerant,
- in-flammable,
- in-tolerant,
- more agitable,
- more alarmable,
- more galvanic,
- more hot headed,
- more hot-headed,
- more nervous,
- more overzealous,
- more volcanic,
- most agitable,
- most alarmable,
- most galvanic,
- most hot headed,
- most hot-headed,
- most overzealous,
- most volcanic,
- over zealous,
- short fused,
- un controlled,
- un-controlled.
-
strong
- heavy-duty,
- take charge,
- unmixed,
- iron-willed,
- well-built,
- strong-flavored,
- hard as nails,
- highly flavored,
- ablebodied,
- full bodied,
- fullbodied,
- in dependent,
- in fine feather,
- in-dependent,
- iron willed,
- ironwilled,
- more heavy duty,
- more heavy-duty,
- more heavyduty,
- more inebriating,
- more iron willed,
- more iron-willed,
- more ironwilled,
- more strong flavored,
- more strong-flavored,
- more strongflavored,
- more unmixed,
- more well built,
- more well established,
- more well-built,
- more wellbuilt,
- more wellestablished,
- most heavy-duty,
- most heavyduty,
- most inebriating,
- most iron willed,
- most iron-willed,
- most ironwilled,
- most strong flavored,
- most strong-flavored,
- most strongflavored,
- most unmixed,
- most well built,
- most well established,
- most well-built,
- most well-established,
- most wellbuilt,
- most wellestablished,
- re doubtable,
- re sourceful,
- re-doubtable,
- strong flavored,
- strongflavored,
- un diluted,
- un mixed,
- un-diluted,
- un-mixed,
- well built,
- well established,
- well made,
- wellbuilt,
- wellestablished,
- wellfounded,
- wellmade.
-
fearful
- aflutter,
- goose bumpy,
- goose-bumpy,
- more aflutter,
- more chicken,
- more goose bumpy,
- more goosebumpy,
- more weak kneed,
- more weak-kneed,
- more weakkneed,
- most aflutter,
- most chicken,
- most goose bumpy,
- most goosebumpy,
- most rabbity,
- most weak-kneed,
- most weakkneed,
- rabbity,
- un manlier,
- un manliest,
- un manly,
- un-manliest,
- un-manly,
- weak kneed,
- weakkneed.
-
tight
- close-fitting,
- skintight,
- close fitting,
- in vulnerable,
- in-vulnerable,
- more close fitting,
- more close-fitting,
- more constricted,
- more contracted,
- more stretched,
- more tightened,
- most close fitting,
- most close-fitting,
- most constricted,
- most contracted,
- most skintight,
- most stretched,
- most tightened.
- soft
- adaptable
- authoritarian
- carefree
- complaisant
- demanding
- exact
- exacting
- feverish
- fidgety
-
firm
- undeviating,
- never-failing,
- dead set on,
- in tent,
- more never-failing,
- more neverfailing,
- more resolved,
- more stipulated,
- more undeviating,
- most never failing,
- most never-failing,
- most neverfailing,
- most resolved,
- never failing,
- neverfailing,
- pre vailing,
- re solute,
- re-solute,
- re-solved,
- un bending,
- un changeable,
- un flinching,
- un qualified,
- un shaken,
- un wavering,
- un yielding,
- un-bending,
- un-changeable,
- un-deviating,
- un-flinching,
- un-qualified,
- un-shakable,
- un-shaken,
- un-wavering,
- un-yielding.
- harsh
-
impatient
- headlong,
- ripe,
- thirsty,
- dying to,
- having short fuse,
- head long,
- head-long,
- hot under collar,
- more appetent,
- more chafing,
- more straining,
- more unindulgent,
- most appetent,
- most chafing,
- most straining,
- most unindulgent,
- racing motor,
- racing one motor,
- racing one's motor,
- racing ones motor,
- un indulgent,
- un-indulgent,
- unindulgent.
- pugnacious
-
querulous
- bearish,
- whiny,
- Grumbly,
- waspy,
- grousing,
- whiniest,
- whinier,
- be moaning,
- be-moaning,
- dis contented,
- dis satisfied,
- dis-contented,
- dis-satisfied,
- fault finding,
- grumblier,
- grumbliest,
- huffy irascible,
- more bearish,
- more bemoaning,
- more deploring,
- more grousing,
- more wailing,
- more whimpering,
- more whining,
- most bearish,
- most bemoaning,
- most deploring,
- most grousing,
- most wailing,
- most whimpering,
- most whining,
- out of sorts peevish,
- out sorts peevish,
- thin skinned touchy,
- thin-skinned touchy,
- thinskinned touchy,
- waspier,
- waspiest.
- rigorous
- solicitous
- stiff
- strained
- strict
- stubborn
- temperamental
- testy
- tough
- unaffected
- unsociable
- uptight
- worried
-
accurate
- on the button,
- matter of fact,
- de fined,
- de finite,
- de tailed,
- de-fined,
- de-finite,
- de-tailed,
- dis criminating,
- dis criminative,
- dis-criminating,
- dis-criminative,
- more defined,
- more ultraprecise,
- most defined,
- most ultraprecise,
- on button,
- on money,
- re gular,
- re-gular,
- ultra precise,
- ultra-precise,
- un erring,
- un mistakable,
- un-mistakable.
-
apprehensive
- jellyfish,
- Butterflies,
- scaredy-cat,
- in a dither,
- biting nails,
- dis quieted,
- dis-quieted,
- feel bones,
- feel in bones,
- fore boding,
- fore-boding,
- get vibes,
- have a hunch,
- have funny feeling,
- have stage fright,
- in a cold sweat,
- in cold sweat,
- in dither,
- in sweat,
- lily livered,
- lilylivered,
- mis trustful,
- mis-trustful,
- more butterflies,
- more disquieted,
- more foreboding,
- more jellyfish,
- more scaredy cat,
- more scaredy-cat,
- more scaredycat,
- most butterflies,
- most disquieted,
- most foreboding,
- most jellyfish,
- most scaredy cat,
- most scaredy-cat,
- most scaredycat,
- running scared,
- scaredy cat.
- belligerent
- breezy
- complacent
- edgy
- equable
- fretful
- hot-tempered
-
inflexible
- steely,
- unadaptable,
- singleminded,
- stand one's ground,
- dyed in the wool,
- in flexible,
- in-exorable,
- in-flexible,
- more unadaptable,
- more unswayable,
- most unadaptable,
- most unswayable,
- set in one ways,
- set in one's ways,
- set in ones ways,
- set in ways,
- set one ways,
- set one's ways,
- set ones ways,
- set ways,
- single minded,
- stand ground,
- stand ones ground,
- steeliest,
- un adaptable,
- un compliant,
- un compromising,
- un relenting,
- un swayable,
- un-adaptable,
- un-compliant,
- un-compromising,
- un-swayable.
- jittery
- jumpy
-
nervous
- edgy,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- uptight,
- dis tressed,
- dis-tressed,
- un strung,
- up set,
- up-set.
- onerous
-
patient
- agitated,
- frustrated,
- impatient,
- intolerant,
- loud,
- rough,
- unwilling,
- violent,
- wild.
- peremptory
- permissive
- quick-tempered
-
restless
- unpeaceful,
- tossing and turning,
- bundle nerves,
- bundle of nerves,
- in-constant,
- more bustling,
- more unpeaceful,
- most bustling,
- most fidgeting,
- most unpeaceful,
- strung out,
- tossing turning,
- un peaceful,
- un quiet,
- un stable,
- un stabler,
- un stablest,
- un steadier,
- un steadiest,
- un steady,
- un-peaceful,
- un-quiet,
- un-quietest,
- un-stable,
- un-stabler,
- un-stablest,
- un-steadier,
- un-steadiest.
- scrupulous
- short-tempered
- skittish
- stringent
-
tense
- overanxious,
- stressful,
- unnerved,
- fluttery,
- over-anxious,
- more clutched,
- more fluttery,
- more overanxious,
- more shot,
- more stressful,
- more unnerved,
- most clutched,
- most fluttery,
- most shot,
- most stressful,
- most unnerved,
- nerve racking,
- nerveracking,
- over anxious,
- shot pieces,
- shot to pieces,
- un nerved,
- un-nerved,
- white knuckled.
- touchy
-
uneasy
- anguished,
- harassed,
- on the qui vive,
- palpitant,
- uneasy,
- all nerves,
- in turmoil,
- dis mayed,
- dis-mayed,
- in secure,
- in securer,
- in securest,
- in-secure,
- in-securer,
- in-securest,
- more anguished,
- more dismayed,
- more harassed,
- more palpitant,
- more tormented,
- more vexed,
- most anguished,
- most dismayed,
- most harassed,
- most palpitant,
- most tormented,
- most vexed,
- on qui vive,
- pre carious,
- pre-carious,
- un easier,
- un easiest,
- un easy,
- un-easier,
- un-easiest,
- un-easy.
- unpretentious
- unsettled
- belligerent, hostile
- anxious, fearful
- driving, obsessive
- punctilious
- full of life; forceful
- careful, painstaking
- inspired; upset
- alarmed, apprehensive
- having a high temperature
-
unalterable, definite
- firm.
-
hard-nosed/hardheaded
- hard-nosed,
- hardheaded,
- headstrong,
- levelheaded,
- unsentimental,
- hardboiled,
- tough nut,
- head-strong,
- hard boiled,
- hard nosed,
- hardnosed,
- head strong,
- in tractable,
- in-tractable,
- locked in,
- more hard nosed,
- more tough nut,
- more tough-nut,
- more toughnut,
- more unsentimental,
- most hardheaded,
- most tough nut,
- most tough-nut,
- most toughnut,
- most unsentimental,
- tough-nut,
- toughnut,
- un sentimental,
- un-sentimental.
- draconian
- easily upset
- unable, unwilling to wait
- difficult; requiring hard labor
- exact, accurate
- careful, finicky
- grouchy, hard to please
- easily upset, angered
- impatient, nervous
- not content; moving about
- severe; exact
- extremely careful
- very nervous
- extreme, severe
- forced, pretended
- rigid, tight
- healthy, powerful
- tight, stretched
- irritable, touchy
- close, snug
- obstinate, rough
- bothered, upset
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