What is another word for uptight?
892 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ʌptˈa͡ɪt], [ ʌptˈaɪt], [ ʌ_p_t_ˈaɪ_t]Table of Contents
Similar words for uptight:
- angry (adjective)
- anxious (adjective)
- apprehensive (adjective)
- cautious (adjective)
- concerned (adjective)
- conventional (adjective)
- defensive (adjective)
- disagreeable (adjective)
- disbelieving (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)
- other relevant words (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)
- touchy (adjective)
- twitchy (adjective)
- unbending (adjective)
- untrusting (adjective)
- worried (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
- compelled (verb)
- other synonyms
- aroused
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Uptight:
adj.
• angry (adjective) • anxious (adjective)- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Hacked,
- a bundle of nerves,
- apprehensive,
- testy,
- querulous,
- get vibes,
- doctrinal,
- jellyfish,
- strict,
- hold ground,
- overanxious,
- edgy,
- dummied up,
- dried up,
- sticking to one's guns,
- restive,
- hanging by thread,
- on thin ice,
- keyed up,
- reticent,
- in a stew,
- on edge,
- hard line,
- suspicious,
- INDEPTH,
- petulant,
- unconfident,
- irascible,
- unconsolable,
- run of the mill,
- hold the fort,
- worried,
- do or die,
- frightened,
- Perturbable,
- angry,
- defensive,
- in a state,
- without belief,
- psychoneurotic,
- Butterflies,
- running scared,
- hyper,
- straightlaced,
- feel in bones,
- butterflies in stomach,
- bearish,
- without faith,
- unbending,
- scaredy-cat,
- all wound up,
- hypersensitive,
- over-nice,
- in depth,
- disagreeable,
- in a tizzy,
- stressful,
- hottempered,
- fluttery,
- isolationist,
- on pins and needles,
- ironfisted,
- bundle of nerves,
- neurotic,
- unrestful,
- Unflexible,
- shot to pieces,
- buffaloed,
- have funny feeling,
- restrained,
- in a cold sweat,
- anxious,
- unassured,
- have a hunch,
- straight-laced,
- set in stone,
- on the warpath,
- no nonsense,
- in a dither,
- jittery,
- wrecker,
- tense,
- clammed up,
- all torn up,
- sullen,
- at end of one's rope,
- bummed out,
- up set,
- twitchy,
- unspeaking,
- shot down,
- white knuckled,
- locked in,
- distressed,
- incensed,
- up the wall,
- viscerous,
- not heretical,
- unglued,
- strung out,
- inhibited,
- nervous,
- biting nails,
- been hit before,
- strait-laced,
- in rut,
- steamed up,
- touch and go,
- have stage fright,
- Iron-fisted,
- insecure,
- overmodest,
- dead set,
- burned up,
- nervous wreck,
- touchy,
- overwrought,
- scaredy cat,
- strained,
- in suspense,
- not born yesterday on the lookout,
- intimate,
- over-modest,
- untrusting,
- hardboiled,
- singleminded,
- hysteric,
- biting one's nails,
- oldmaidish,
- tied up in knots,
- Stickling,
- ruber,
- in doubt,
- over-anxious,
- hard as nails.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
n.
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- upset.
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- hot-tempered,
- short-tempered,
- temperamental,
- moody,
- sensitive,
- bad-tempered,
- fractious,
- tighten,
- irritable.
- harry,
- cling,
- tension,
- cow,
- dread,
- intimidated,
- strung up,
- brooding,
- haunted,
- unsettled,
- say,
- flustered,
- stress puppy,
- rattled,
- kitten,
- alarmed,
- heart,
- stressed (out),
- aflutter,
- rest,
- restless,
- concernedly,
- pit,
- concerned,
- troubled,
- shudder,
- distracted,
- fear,
- high-strung,
- frayed,
- concern,
- paranoid,
- het up,
- unquiet,
- grim,
- fret,
- lose,
- mind,
- frantically,
- fretful,
- perturbed,
- ill,
- hot,
- hyped up,
- hunted,
- frantic,
- gun,
- oppressed,
- tremble,
- nervously,
- highly strung,
- bothered,
- preoccupied,
- pin,
- uneasy,
- prey,
- awkward,
- Clingy,
- sweat,
- stressy,
- -racked,
- awkwardly,
- worrywart,
- stress,
- cat,
- screwed up,
- fuss,
- wired up,
- wound up,
- overstrung,
- disconcerted,
- butterfly,
- worry,
- hung up,
- worrier,
- edge,
- strain,
- bated,
- harassed,
- jumpy,
- care,
- tear 1,
- skittish,
- flap,
- uncomfortable,
- nervy,
- agitate,
- fraught,
- demented,
- tenterhooks,
- bundle.
v.
• compelled (verb)Other synonyms:
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- fidgety.
- 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.
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