What is another word for uptight?

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fidgety, excited, jolty, pompous, intense, niminy-piminy, frenzied, bigoted, frenetic, compulsive, kosher, harmonious, stiff-necked, square, staid, in a flap, feverish, volatile, standoffish, austere, bumpy, proper, cheeky, old-fogyish, hard-line, ceremonious, fearful, haughty, prim, orthodox, scared, stuffy, priggish, tetchy, disapproving, victorian, rough, concordant, conformist, uncompromising, severe, in line, impulsive, worked up, bold, antsy, ruffled, emotional, narrow-minded, prudish, intolerant, unfriendly, hysterical, rocky, prickly, in accord, aloof, right-wing, mannered, on tenterhooks, plastic, straight, embarrassed, in keeping, formalistic, fuddy-duddy, crabbed, puritanical, self-important, taut, overexcited, reserved, traditionalist, snooty, impetuous, stodgy, formal, anal, queasy, hotheaded, bourgeois, unrelaxed, pietistic, cold, disturbed, chilly, rigid, puritan, tight, all a-twitter, stern, peevish, shy, pedantic, moralistic, wooden, repressed, itchy, stilted, forced, corresponding, spirited, stiff, jolting, disquieted, shameless, doubtful, hard-nosed, agitated, brash, self-centred, snobbish, ill at ease, flappable, abashed, accordant, dithery, ascetic, huffy, raging, splenetic, enraged, more unglued, un-quiet, un easy, dis quieted, in tizzy, un-glued, more choked, more hyper, most clutched, most unglued, more clutched, more disquieted, wreckest, most bugged, un-easier, un easier, shot pieces, more butterflies, more hacked, un easiest, most choked, in state, dis-quieted, more dreading, un glued, more bugged, un-quietest, un-easiest, most spooked, most butterflies, un quiet, more spooked, most disquieted, most dreading, most hacked, in sweat, more foreboding, worried sick, more scaredy-cat, most jellyfish, most scaredycat, most foreboding, more scaredycat, more jellyfish, most scaredy cat, more scaredy cat, scaredycat, shaky, un-easy, lilylivered, weakest, in dither, in a sweat, feel bones, lily livered, fore boding, have cold feet, most scaredy-cat, in cold sweat, have hunch, fore-boding, conservative, old fashioned, conventional, butterflies stomach, up-set, most exercised, tied in knots, tied knots, tied up knots, more exercised, in stew, biting ones nails, biting one nails, on pins needles, more isolationist, in-flexible, most doctrinal, more straight-laced, narrow minded, obstinate, rubest, stereo-typed, in flexible, more straight laced, stereo typed, most straight-laced, most isolationist, most straightlaced, narrowminded, hidebound, more doctrinal, de mure, de-mure, most straight laced, rube, straight laced, lamest, more straightlaced, more frustrating, fore stalling, more withstanding, more safeguarding, fore-stalling, more checking, with-standing, more balking, more guarding, most checking, most forestalling, more averting, most withstanding, coping with, most frustrating, more foiling, de fending, more forestalling, most protecting, more thwarting, more interrupting, in opposition, most safeguarding, de-fending, more defending, most guarding, most interrupting, most thwarting, with standing, most foiling, most defending, more protecting, whinier, pettish, unlikable, whiniest, whiny, distrustful, bundle nerves, dis-trait, in-consolable, most dragged, dis-tressed, more dragged, more saddened, more unconsolable, dis trait, most tormented, un consolable, up wall, most ripped, shookest, dis tressed, more tormented, un-consolable, most harassed, more harassed, more ripped, most unconsolable, doubting, dis-trustful, dis trustful, ex-cited, highstrung, high strung, over-strung, ex-citable, ex cited, ill ease, excitable, over strung, more overstrung, ex citable, most overstrung, scared stiff, unnerved, rabbity, Chicken-hearted, having kittens, pushing the panic button, terror-stricken, in a panic, at end rope, most buffaloed, at end one's rope, at end one rope, at end of ones rope, in-censed, at end of one rope, most rousted, hot bothered, on warpath, at end ones rope, more buffaloed, in censed, up arms, more rousted, re-pressed, un-demonstrative, re pressed, most repressed, more repressed, selfconscious, self-conscious, un-responsive, re-served, with drawn, re served, un demonstrative, self conscious, with-drawn, un responsive, more unpoised, un-assured, more delphic, in-securest, up the air, in securest, in-securer, in securer, un confident, in-secure, touch go, most delphic, un-poised, un-confident, most unassured, up in air, most questioning, un-sure, in secure, more unconfident, up air, un poised, un sure, un assured, more questioning, in bred, deepseated, in-grained, in-born, pro founder, inmost, pro-founder, in-dwelling, deep seated, in most, in dwelling, most viscerous, inner-most, pro found, pro-found, indwelling, in born, de tailed, de-tailed, more viscerous, trusted, in-most, inner most, in-bred, most bearish, thinskinned, quick tempered, short tempered, shorttempered, thin skinned, ogrest, ogrer, more bearish, hot tempered, quicktempered, most trembling, more trembling, mistrustful, mis-trustful, mis trustful, withdrawn, on the defensive, old-fashioned, cautious, most manic, un stabler, more obsessive, more hysteric, un-stablest, dis oriented, dis-oriented, dis ordered, un healthiest, dis-ordered, psycho-neurotic, most obsessive, un-healthiest, un stablest, psycho neurotic, un-stabler, most psychoneurotic, un-healthy, obsessive, most hysteric, un-stable, un healthy, un stable, un healthier, more psychoneurotic, most stressful, more overanxious, most overanxious, most hyper, nerve racking, over anxious, more stressful, nerveracking, more keyed-up, over-wrought, freaked-out, most strung out, most wound up, worked-up, firedup, more firedup, hot under collar, more hot-and-bothered, more strung-out, most stirred, woundup, strung-out, strungout, most strungout, fired-up, wound-up, more wound up, most keyedup, most fired-up, most hot-and-bothered, most worked up, more keyedup, more stirred, over worked, more keyed up, most keyed-up, most firedup, more workedup, most keyed up, most strung-out, more wound-up, most hot and bothered, most wound-up, more fired up, hot-and-bothered, most fired up, more strungout, freakedout, over-worked, most freakedout, more fired-up, most workedup, most freaked-out, keyedup, more freaked-out, most worked-up, more worked up, over excited, more freakedout, keyed-up, more worked-up, all shook up, more hot and bothered, workedup, fault finding, bad tempered, more ill humored, most whining, more caviling, more whining, ill humored, most caviling, more illhumored, illhumored, most illhumored, most ill humored, badtempered, most crybaby, more ill-humored, most ill-humored, most overnice, most simpering, more simpering, more overexact, more overmodest, over nice, most overmodest, over exact, over-exact, over modest, waspy, grumbling, thin-skinned touchy, Grumbly, grousing, out of sorts peevish, wailing, huffy irascible, un-yielding, un yielding, Unaffable, unexcessive, on a leash, unextreme, unexpansive, in charge, on leash, under control, in check, laid back, under wraps, corked up, calm and collected, more unspeaking, un-speaking, tight lipped, un speaking, un-communicative, un-forthcoming, most unspeaking, most unforthcoming, more unforthcoming, close mouthed, un forthcoming, at end of rope, hard put, strait laced, more stickling, most unpermissive, more iron-fisted, hard boiled, ex-acting, most iron-fisted, ex acting, nononsense, more unpermissive, un permissive, more ironfisted, most ironfisted, most iron fisted, un-permissive, most stickling, more glowering, un-sociable, most glowering, most sulking, poutier, poutiest, more sulking, more sourpussed, sourpussed, pouty, most sourpussed, in-credulous, not born yesterday the lookout, un believing, not born yesterday lookout, not born yesterday on lookout, greeneyed, in credulous, un-believing, most suspecting, more shot, most shot, most fluttery, most perturbable, more hypersensitive, un-predictable, pre carious, pre-carious, un safe, un safer, most hypersensitive, un safest, un predictable, more oversensitive, un-safe, more perturbable, most oversensitive, un-safest, un-safer, hyper-sensitive, a bundle nerves, most unswayable, more unswayable, un compromising, set stone, in compliant, re solute, sticking one guns, in-elastic, un-compromising, sticking guns, hold fort, re-solute, hold ones ground, un bending, sticking ones guns, more unflexible, do die, in elastic, hold line, standing one ground, sticking to ones guns, hardline, un-flexible, Unswayable, un-swayable, standing ground, in-tractable, un flexible, un-bending, in-compliant, hold one ground, in-exorable, standing ones ground, un relenting, single minded, most unflexible, sticking one's guns, sticking to one guns, standing one's ground, sticking to guns, un swayable, in tractable, un-trusting, un trusting, worried stiff, upset, hot-tempered, short-tempered, temperamental, moody, sensitive, bad-tempered, fractious, tighten, irritable, driven, fidgety

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What is another word for uptight?

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