Synonyms for Uptight:

• adj.

  •angry (adjective)
  • huffy,
  • raging,
  • splenetic,
  • enraged.
  •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.
  •apprehensive (adjective)
  • 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.
  •cautious (adjective)
  • conservative,
  • old fashioned,
  • conventional.
  •concerned (adjective)
  • 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.
  •conventional (adjective)
  • 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.
  •defensive (adjective)
  • 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.
  •disagreeable (adjective)
  • whinier,
  • pettish,
  • unlikable,
  • whiniest,
  • whiny.
  •disbelieving (adjective)
  • distrustful.
  •distressed (adjective)
  • 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.
  •distrustful (adjective)
  • doubting,
  • dis-trustful,
  • dis trustful.
  •edgy (adjective)
  • ex-cited,
  • highstrung,
  • high strung,
  • over-strung,
  • ex-citable,
  • ex cited,
  • ill ease,
  • excitable,
  • over strung,
  • more overstrung,
  • ex citable,
  • most overstrung.
  •frightened (adjective)
  • scared stiff,
  • unnerved,
  • rabbity,
  • Chicken-hearted,
  • having kittens,
  • pushing the panic button,
  • terror-stricken,
  • in a panic.
  •incensed (adjective)
  • 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.
  •inhibited (adjective)
  • 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.
  •insecure (adjective)
  • 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.
  •intimate (adjective)
  • 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.
  •irascible (adjective)
  • most bearish,
  • thinskinned,
  • quick tempered,
  • short tempered,
  • shorttempered,
  • thin skinned,
  • ogrest,
  • ogrer,
  • more bearish,
  • hot tempered,
  • quicktempered.
  •jittery (adjective)
  • most trembling,
  • more trembling.
  •mistrustful (adjective)
  • mistrustful,
  • mis-trustful,
  • mis trustful.
  •nervous (adjective)
  • withdrawn,
  • on the defensive,
  • old-fashioned,
  • cautious.
  •neurotic (adjective)
  • 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.
  •on edge (adjective)
  • most stressful,
  • more overanxious,
  • most overanxious,
  • most hyper,
  • nerve racking,
  • over anxious,
  • more stressful,
  • nerveracking.
  •overwrought (adjective)
  • 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.
  •petulant (adjective)
  • 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.
  •prudish (adjective)
  • most overnice,
  • most simpering,
  • more simpering,
  • more overexact,
  • more overmodest,
  • over nice,
  • most overmodest,
  • over exact,
  • over-exact,
  • over modest.
  •querulous (adjective)
  • waspy,
  • grumbling,
  • thin-skinned touchy,
  • Grumbly,
  • grousing,
  • out of sorts peevish,
  • wailing,
  • huffy irascible.
  •restive (adjective)
  • un-yielding,
  • un yielding.
  •restrained (adjective)
  • Unaffable,
  • unexcessive,
  • on a leash,
  • unextreme,
  • unexpansive,
  • in charge,
  • on leash,
  • under control,
  • in check,
  • laid back,
  • under wraps,
  • corked up,
  • calm and collected.
  •reticent (adjective)
  • more unspeaking,
  • un-speaking,
  • tight lipped,
  • un speaking,
  • un-communicative,
  • un-forthcoming,
  • most unspeaking,
  • most unforthcoming,
  • more unforthcoming,
  • close mouthed,
  • un forthcoming.
  •strained (adjective)
  • at end of rope,
  • hard put.
  •strait-laced (adjective)
  • strait laced.
  •strict (adjective)
  • 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.
  •sullen (adjective)
  • more glowering,
  • un-sociable,
  • most glowering,
  • most sulking,
  • poutier,
  • poutiest,
  • more sulking,
  • more sourpussed,
  • sourpussed,
  • pouty,
  • most sourpussed.
  •suspicious (adjective)
  • 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.
  •tense (adjective)
  • more shot,
  • most shot,
  • most fluttery.
  •touchy (adjective)
  • 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.
  •twitchy (adjective)
  • a bundle nerves.
  •unbending (adjective)
  • 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.
  •untrusting (adjective)
  • un-trusting,
  • un trusting.
  •worried (adjective)
  • worried stiff.

• n.

  •
  • upset.
  •
  • hot-tempered,
  • short-tempered,
  • temperamental,
  • moody,
  • sensitive,
  • bad-tempered,
  • fractious,
  • tighten,
  • irritable.

• v.

  •compelled (verb)
  • driven.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • fidgety.
  •aroused
  • excited.
  •Other relevant words:
  • 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.

Paraphrases for Uptight:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    tense.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    high-strung, strained, edgy, jittery, upset, trapped, cornered, fraught.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    tight, stuck, nervous, taut, jumpy, rigid.

Antonyms for Uptight:

• adj.

  • nervous
    composed, collected, cool, laid-back, unworried, calm, easy-going.
  • Other antonyms:
    relaxed.

• Other antonyms:

  • n.
    decompress, lax, loosen up, make relaxed, relax, slow down, unbend, unlax, unstrain, unwind.