Synonyms for Up tight:

• adj.

  •Victorian (adjective)
  • respectable,
  • smug.
  •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.
  •anxious (adjective)
  • 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.
  •apprehensive (adjective)
  • 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.
  •concerned (adjective)
  • upset,
  • tied up in knots,
  • biting one's nails,
  • perturbed,
  • Exercised,
  • in a stew,
  • bothered,
  • on pins and needles,
  • butterflies in stomach.
  •conventional (adjective)
  • 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.
  •defensive (adjective)
  • forestalling,
  • protecting,
  • thwarting,
  • warding off,
  • safeguarding,
  • in opposition,
  • resistive,
  • foiling,
  • preservative,
  • preventive,
  • balking,
  • coping with,
  • Interrupting,
  • Checking,
  • arresting,
  • guarding,
  • defending,
  • opposing,
  • frustrating,
  • averting,
  • Withstanding.
  •disagreeable (adjective)
  • 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.
  •distressed (adjective)
  • 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.
  •distrustful (adjective)
  • doubting,
  • skeptical,
  • jealous,
  • leery,
  • cynical,
  • cagey,
  • chary,
  • dubious,
  • wary,
  • been hit before.
  •edgy (adjective)
  • high-strung,
  • skittish,
  • impatient,
  • overstrung,
  • excited,
  • critical,
  • excitable,
  • ill at ease,
  • touchy,
  • keyed up.
  •frightened (adjective)
  • 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.
  •incensed (adjective)
  • 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.
  •inhibited (adjective)
  • bottled up,
  • subdued,
  • cold,
  • reserved,
  • self-conscious,
  • reticent,
  • undemonstrative,
  • passionless,
  • unresponsive,
  • frustrated,
  • repressed,
  • constrained,
  • guarded.
  •insecure (adjective)
  • touch and go,
  • Unpoised,
  • delphic,
  • unsure,
  • vague,
  • up in the air,
  • on thin ice,
  • unassured,
  • hanging by thread,
  • hesitant,
  • unconfident,
  • diffident,
  • questioning.
  •intimate (adjective)
  • 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.
  •irascible (adjective)
  • cranky,
  • crabbed,
  • feisty,
  • short-tempered,
  • passionate,
  • bristly,
  • quick-tempered,
  • angry,
  • ogre,
  • snappish,
  • bearish,
  • fractious,
  • thin-skinned,
  • hasty,
  • testy,
  • hot-tempered.
  •jittery (adjective)
  • quivering,
  • trembling.
  •mistrustful (adjective)
  • untrusting.
  •nervous (adjective)
  • neurotic,
  • timid,
  • shrinking,
  • timorous,
  • unstrung,
  • volatile,
  • hysterical,
  • flustered,
  • fitful,
  • ruffled,
  • shy,
  • unrestful,
  • sensitive,
  • twitchy,
  • fussy.
  •neurotic (adjective)
  • disordered,
  • manic,
  • hysteric,
  • obsessive,
  • psychoneurotic,
  • unhealthy,
  • deviant,
  • abnormal,
  • aberrant,
  • disoriented,
  • inhibited,
  • nervous wreck,
  • erratic,
  • unstable,
  • compulsive.
  •on edge (adjective)
  • beside oneself,
  • stressful,
  • wound up,
  • nerve-racking,
  • overanxious.
  •overwrought (adjective)
  • 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.
  •petulant (adjective)
  • Pouting,
  • sour,
  • bad-tempered,
  • ill-humored,
  • perverse,
  • mean,
  • whining,
  • crybaby,
  • Fault-finding,
  • caviling,
  • grumbling,
  • captious,
  • complaining.
  •prudish (adjective)
  • 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.
  •querulous (adjective)
  • lamenting,
  • Whimpering,
  • thin-skinned touchy,
  • wailing,
  • grousing,
  • scrappy,
  • out of sorts peevish,
  • crying,
  • discontented,
  • carping,
  • Deploring,
  • waspy,
  • dissatisfied,
  • huffy irascible,
  • plaintive,
  • Grumbly,
  • Bemoaning,
  • censorious.
  •restive (adjective)
  • balky,
  • stubborn,
  • ornery,
  • froward,
  • unyielding,
  • unruly,
  • recalcitrant,
  • refractory.
  •restrained (adjective)
  • 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.
  •reticent (adjective)
  • silent,
  • bashful,
  • taciturn,
  • close,
  • unforthcoming,
  • dried up,
  • dummied up,
  • clammed up,
  • tight-lipped,
  • uncommunicative,
  • restrained,
  • mum,
  • close-mouthed,
  • unspeaking.
  •strained (adjective)
  • embarrassed,
  • awkward,
  • hard put,
  • at end of rope,
  • put,
  • labored,
  • unnatural,
  • false,
  • uncomfortable,
  • tight,
  • farfetched,
  • unrelaxed.
  •strait-laced (adjective)
  • old-maidish.
  •strict (adjective)
  • 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.
  •sullen (adjective)
  • 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.
  •suspicious (adjective)
  • suspect,
  • incredulous,
  • in doubt,
  • Suspecting,
  • without belief,
  • not born yesterday on the lookout,
  • without faith,
  • quizzical,
  • green-eyed,
  • wondering,
  • unbelieving.
  •tense (adjective)
  • moved,
  • worrying,
  • queasy,
  • moving,
  • white knuckled,
  • fluttery,
  • shot,
  • strained.
  •testy (adjective)
  • peppery,
  • quarrelsome,
  • crotchety.
  •touchy (adjective)
  • oversensitive,
  • delicate,
  • precarious,
  • dicey,
  • tricky,
  • unsafe,
  • Perturbable,
  • unpredictable,
  • temperamental,
  • risky,
  • hypersensitive,
  • hazardous,
  • ticklish,
  • wired up.
  •twitchy (adjective)
  • a bundle of nerves,
  • all wound up.
  •unbending (adjective)
  • 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.
  •uptight (adjective)
  • nervy,
  • old-fashioned,
  • worried,
  • tense,
  • apprehensive,
  • conventional,
  • cautious,
  • restive,
  • concerned,
  • anxious,
  • uneasy,
  • strict,
  • on the defensive,
  • edgy,
  • withdrawn,
  • troubled,
  • on edge.
  •worried (adjective)
  • frightened,
  • worried stiff.

Antonyms for Up tight:

• adj.

  • angry
    happy, pleased, nice, content, joyful, joyous, cheerful, mild, peaceful.
  • anxious
    tranqil, unconcerned, assured, indifferent, unafraid, quiet, unwilling, courageous, Unfearful, brave, inattentive, bold, confident.
  • apprehensive
    at ease, unquestionable, clear, certain, undoubting, unsuspicious, definite, sure.
  • concerned
    uninvolved, untroubled, unperturbed, undisturbed, disinterested, uncaring.
  • conventional
    uncustomary, unconventional, abnormal, original, uncommon, strange, unique, irregular, unusual, exotic, new, different, foreign.
  • defensive
    unwary, unprotective, unwatchful, undefensive.
  • disagreeable
    pleasing, inoffensive, kind, delightful, pleasant, agreeable, friendly.
  • distressed
    comforted, glad.
  • distrustful
    heedless, careless, trusting, trustful, trusty, trustworthy, unsuspecting, faithful, believing, rash, incautious.
  • inhibited
    sociable, immodest, outgoing, extroverted, self-confident, aggressive, forward.
  • insecure
    secure, unwavering, sound, safe, guarded, protected.
  • intimate
    formal, aboveboard, known, stupid, public, open, unfriendly, ignorant, superficial, revealed, incompatible, unimportant.
  • jittery
    relaxed.
  • nervous
    firm, fearless, sufficient, unnervous.
  • neurotic
    stable, normal, sane, adjusted, balanced.
  • overwrought
    rested, unruffled.
  • petulant
    patient, willing, good-natured.
  • restive
    obedient.
  • restrained
    communicative.
  • reticent
    unreserved, talkative, unrestrained, unshy.
  • strained
    loose, unforced, slack, genuine, comfortable, easy.
  • strict
    facile, amenable, inaccurate, yielding, lenient, indefinite, tractable, flexible, tolerant, soft, gentle, uncertain.
  • sullen
    bright, grinning.
  • suspicious
    believable, undoubted, innocent, convinced, uncareful, Indubious, palpable, thoughtless.
  • tense
    limp, limpid.
  • touchy
    insensitive, easygoing, strong, unflappable.
  • unbending
    pliable, pliant, bending.
  • uptight
    easy-going, cool, laid-back, collected, unworried, calm, composed.