What is another word for up tight?
688 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ˌʌp tˈa͡ɪt], [ ˌʌp tˈaɪt], [ ˌʌ_p t_ˈaɪ_t]
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Similar words for up tight:
- Victorian (adjective)
- angry (adjective)
- anxious (adjective)
- apprehensive (adjective)
- concerned (adjective)
- conventional (adjective)
- defensive (adjective)
- disagreeable (adjective)
- distressed (adjective)
- distrustful (adjective)
- edgy (adjective)
- frightened (adjective)
- incensed (adjective)
- inhibited (adjective)
- insecure (adjective)
- intimate (adjective)
- irascible (adjective)
- jittery (adjective)
- mistrustful (adjective)
- nervous (adjective)
- neurotic (adjective)
- on edge (adjective)
- overwrought (adjective)
- petulant (adjective)
- prudish (adjective)
- querulous (adjective)
- restive (adjective)
- restrained (adjective)
- reticent (adjective)
- strained (adjective)
- strait-laced (adjective)
- strict (adjective)
- sullen (adjective)
- suspicious (adjective)
- tense (adjective)
- testy (adjective)
- touchy (adjective)
- twitchy (adjective)
- unbending (adjective)
- uptight (adjective)
- worried (adjective)
Synonyms for Up tight:
adj.
• Victorian (adjective) • angry (adjective)- heated,
- maddened,
- inflamed,
- ferocious,
- outraged,
- turbulent,
- irate,
- ireful,
- choleric,
- fiery,
- riled,
- incensed,
- Antagonized,
- huffy,
- chafed,
- vexed,
- galled,
- ill-tempered,
- displeased,
- infuriated,
- fierce,
- hateful,
- raging,
- nettled,
- annoyed,
- sulky,
- cross,
- exasperated,
- provoked,
- irritated,
- enraged,
- Storming,
- irascible,
- impassioned,
- splenetic,
- indignant,
- wrathful,
- affronted,
- hot,
- resentful,
- sore,
- uptight,
- Convulsed,
- Fuming,
- Piqued,
- bitter,
- exacerbated,
- furious,
- offended,
- sullen,
- irritable.
- jumpy,
- careful,
- nervous,
- aghast,
- strung out,
- choked,
- restless,
- disturbed,
- fearful,
- shaking,
- solicitous,
- overwrought,
- shook up,
- spooked,
- in a tizzy,
- watchful,
- in suspense,
- Butterflies,
- shivery,
- scared,
- Hacked,
- Dreading,
- sweating bullets,
- fretful,
- wreck,
- jittery,
- unquiet,
- Clutched,
- shot to pieces,
- fidgety,
- worried sick,
- distressed,
- shaky,
- afraid,
- basket case,
- disquieted,
- bugged,
- unglued,
- wired,
- hyper,
- in a state,
- taut,
- antsy.
- stiff,
- scaredy-cat,
- in a dither,
- jellyfish,
- have stage fright,
- have funny feeling,
- in a sweat,
- doubtful,
- alarmed,
- biting nails,
- frozen,
- weak,
- feel in bones,
- foreboding,
- have cold feet,
- get vibes,
- in a cold sweat,
- have a hunch,
- mistrustful,
- suspicious,
- hung up,
- uncertain,
- running scared,
- lily-livered.
- upset,
- tied up in knots,
- biting one's nails,
- perturbed,
- Exercised,
- in a stew,
- bothered,
- on pins and needles,
- butterflies in stomach.
- illiberal,
- prosaic,
- bigoted,
- rigid,
- narrow,
- parochial,
- obstinate,
- narrow-minded,
- in rut,
- dogmatic,
- moderate,
- rube,
- isolationist,
- puritanical,
- inflexible,
- literal,
- conforming,
- routine,
- drippy,
- humdrum,
- not heretical,
- solemn,
- straight,
- stereotyped,
- commonplace,
- bourgeois,
- hackneyed,
- conservative,
- sober,
- stuffy,
- straight-laced,
- square,
- run-of-the-mill,
- insular,
- lame,
- hidebound,
- demure,
- moral,
- pedestrian,
- doctrinal.
- forestalling,
- protecting,
- thwarting,
- warding off,
- safeguarding,
- in opposition,
- resistive,
- foiling,
- preservative,
- preventive,
- balking,
- coping with,
- Interrupting,
- Checking,
- arresting,
- guarding,
- defending,
- opposing,
- frustrating,
- averting,
- Withstanding.
- grouchy,
- cantankerous,
- obnoxious,
- bellicose,
- ugly,
- ungracious,
- ill-natured,
- waspish,
- disputatious,
- surly,
- whiny,
- pettish,
- unpleasant,
- snappy,
- brusque,
- rude,
- out of sorts,
- unlikable,
- Eristic,
- contrary,
- churlish,
- disobliging,
- unfriendly,
- offensive,
- peevish,
- petulant,
- contentious,
- querulous,
- nasty,
- difficult.
- all torn up,
- shook,
- distrait,
- wrecked,
- afflicted,
- inconsolable,
- ripped,
- unconsolable,
- Dragged,
- Saddened,
- wretched,
- tormented,
- peeved,
- up the wall,
- shot down,
- bummed out,
- cut up,
- discombobulated,
- agitated,
- bundle of nerves,
- miffed,
- harassed,
- distracted,
- distraught,
- disconsolate.
- high-strung,
- skittish,
- impatient,
- overstrung,
- excited,
- critical,
- excitable,
- ill at ease,
- touchy,
- keyed up.
- panicky,
- chicken,
- unnerved,
- sissy,
- numb,
- scared stiff,
- Affrighted,
- pushing the panic button,
- in a panic,
- having kittens,
- terrorized,
- startled,
- yellow,
- Chicken-hearted,
- rabbity,
- mousy,
- petrified,
- terror-stricken,
- abashed,
- terrified,
- dismayed,
- cowed.
- rousted,
- hot and bothered,
- up in arms,
- steamed up,
- on the warpath,
- at end of one's rope,
- rubbed the wrong way,
- mad,
- dogged,
- burned up,
- buffaloed.
- bottled up,
- subdued,
- cold,
- reserved,
- self-conscious,
- reticent,
- undemonstrative,
- passionless,
- unresponsive,
- frustrated,
- repressed,
- constrained,
- guarded.
- touch and go,
- Unpoised,
- delphic,
- unsure,
- vague,
- up in the air,
- on thin ice,
- unassured,
- hanging by thread,
- hesitant,
- unconfident,
- diffident,
- questioning.
- inmost,
- essential,
- ingrained,
- internal,
- interior,
- privy,
- detailed,
- inbred,
- viscerous,
- innate,
- special,
- elemental,
- inherent,
- confidential,
- firsthand,
- inborn,
- profound,
- indwelling,
- thorough,
- deep,
- trusted,
- secret,
- visceral,
- penetrating,
- intrinsic,
- gut,
- in-depth,
- deep-seated,
- innermost,
- exhaustive,
- immediate,
- experienced.
- cranky,
- crabbed,
- feisty,
- short-tempered,
- passionate,
- bristly,
- quick-tempered,
- angry,
- ogre,
- snappish,
- bearish,
- fractious,
- thin-skinned,
- hasty,
- testy,
- hot-tempered.
- neurotic,
- timid,
- shrinking,
- timorous,
- unstrung,
- volatile,
- hysterical,
- flustered,
- fitful,
- ruffled,
- shy,
- unrestful,
- sensitive,
- twitchy,
- fussy.
- disordered,
- manic,
- hysteric,
- obsessive,
- psychoneurotic,
- unhealthy,
- deviant,
- abnormal,
- aberrant,
- disoriented,
- inhibited,
- nervous wreck,
- erratic,
- unstable,
- compulsive.
- spent,
- crazy,
- Overworked,
- strung-out,
- overexcited,
- hot under collar,
- fired-up,
- wound-up,
- worked-up,
- keyed-up,
- hot-and-bothered,
- tired,
- all shook up,
- freaked-out,
- flipped out,
- high,
- stirred,
- worn,
- affected,
- weary,
- frantic,
- emotional.
- Pouting,
- sour,
- bad-tempered,
- ill-humored,
- perverse,
- mean,
- whining,
- crybaby,
- Fault-finding,
- caviling,
- grumbling,
- captious,
- complaining.
- overmodest,
- austere,
- squeamish,
- genteel,
- rigorous,
- overnice,
- severe,
- victorian,
- offish,
- pretentious,
- overexact,
- stilted,
- precise,
- prissy,
- Simpering,
- starchy,
- fastidious,
- stern,
- finicky,
- scrupulous,
- straitlaced,
- prim,
- mincing,
- artificial,
- priggish,
- proper.
- lamenting,
- Whimpering,
- thin-skinned touchy,
- wailing,
- grousing,
- scrappy,
- out of sorts peevish,
- crying,
- discontented,
- carping,
- Deploring,
- waspy,
- dissatisfied,
- huffy irascible,
- plaintive,
- Grumbly,
- Bemoaning,
- censorious.
- muted,
- soft,
- laid-back,
- plain,
- unexpansive,
- mild,
- calm and collected,
- unobtrusive,
- self-controlled,
- unexcessive,
- unextreme,
- tasteful,
- under wraps,
- discreet,
- reasonable,
- in check,
- in charge,
- cool,
- chilled,
- corked up,
- controlled,
- retiring,
- under control,
- on a leash,
- steady,
- temperate,
- Inobtrusive,
- Unaffable.
- silent,
- bashful,
- taciturn,
- close,
- unforthcoming,
- dried up,
- dummied up,
- clammed up,
- tight-lipped,
- uncommunicative,
- restrained,
- mum,
- close-mouthed,
- unspeaking.
- embarrassed,
- awkward,
- hard put,
- at end of rope,
- put,
- labored,
- unnatural,
- false,
- uncomfortable,
- tight,
- farfetched,
- unrelaxed.
- grim,
- oppressive,
- picky,
- exacting,
- unsparing,
- unpermissive,
- strait-laced,
- disciplinary,
- dead set,
- prudish,
- draconian,
- harsh,
- punctilious,
- dour,
- tough,
- set,
- Iron-fisted,
- stringent,
- forbidding,
- hard,
- no-nonsense,
- hard-boiled,
- Stickling,
- firm.
- gruff,
- somber,
- dismal,
- gloomy,
- saturnine,
- cheerless,
- morose,
- pouty,
- sulking,
- hostile,
- sourpussed,
- tenebrific,
- malevolent,
- tenebrous,
- pessimistic,
- unsociable,
- malign,
- frowning,
- glum,
- grumpy,
- dull,
- crabby,
- moody,
- malicious,
- inert,
- glowering,
- heavy.
- suspect,
- incredulous,
- in doubt,
- Suspecting,
- without belief,
- not born yesterday on the lookout,
- without faith,
- quizzical,
- green-eyed,
- wondering,
- unbelieving.
- oversensitive,
- delicate,
- precarious,
- dicey,
- tricky,
- unsafe,
- Perturbable,
- unpredictable,
- temperamental,
- risky,
- hypersensitive,
- hazardous,
- ticklish,
- wired up.
- obdurate,
- single-minded,
- inexorable,
- relentless,
- hard as nails,
- intractable,
- standing one's ground,
- dug in,
- hard-line,
- hold one's ground,
- standing pat,
- unrelenting,
- Unswayable,
- formal,
- resolute,
- inelastic,
- hold the line,
- distant,
- aloof,
- sticking to one's guns,
- crisp,
- set in stone,
- Unflexible,
- locked in,
- uncompromising,
- Incompliant,
- do or die,
- hold the fort.
How to use "Up tight" in context?
Contrary to popular belief, there is nothing inherently wrong with being "up tight". In fact, being uptight can actually be a very effective way of dealing with stressful situations.
During a time of stress, people tend to release adrenaline and cortisol. Adrenaline is a stimulant that energizes people and helps them focus on the task at hand. Cortisol, on the other hand, is a hormone that helps the body conserve energy and relax.
When people are uptight, they are less likely to rely on adrenaline and cortisol. This is because they are worrying about everything that could go wrong.
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