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up tight
adjective as in incensed
adjective as in apprehensive
adjective as in inhibited
adjective as in insecure
adjective as in intimate
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adjective as in irascible
adjective as in jittery
adjective as in nervous
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adjective as in neurotic
adjective as in on edge
adjective as in overwrought
Strongest match
Weak matches
- affected
- agitated
- all shook up
- beside oneself
- crazy
- distracted
- emotional
- excitable
- fired-up
- flipped-out
- freaked-out
- histrionic
- histrionical
- hot under collar
- hot-and-bothered
- hyper
- in a state
- nervous
- neurotic
- on edge
- overexcited
- overstrung
- overworked
- spent
- steamed up
- stirred
- strung-out
- tense
- tired
- uneasy
- unstrung
- uptight
- weary
- wired
- worked-up
- worn
- wound-up
adjective as in petulant
adjective as in prudish
Strongest matches
adjective as in querulous
Weak matches
- bearish
- bemoaning
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- censorious
- complaining
- critical
- cross
- crying
- deploring
- discontented
- dissatisfied
- edgy
- fault-finding
- fretful
- grousing
- grumbling
- grumbly
- huffy
- irritable
- lamenting
- out of sorts
- peevish
- petulant
- plaintive
- scrappy
- snappy
- sour
- testy
- thin-skinned
- touchy
- uptight
- wailing
- waspish
- waspy
- whimpering
- whining
- whiny
adjective as in restive
adjective as in restrained
adjective as in reticent
adjective as in strained
adjective as in strait-laced
adjective as in strict
adjective as in sullen
Weak matches
- bad-tempered
- cheerless
- crabbed
- crabby
- cross
- cynical
- dismal
- dull
- fretful
- frowning
- glowering
- gruff
- heavy
- ill-humored
- inert
- irritable
- malevolent
- malicious
- malign
- mean
- moody
- obstinate
- ornery
- out of sorts
- peevish
- perverse
- pessimistic
- pouting
- pouty
- querulous
- saturnine
- silent
- sour
- sourpussed
- stubborn
- sulking
- sulky
- tenebrific
- tenebrous
- unsociable
- uptight
adjective as in suspicious
adjective as in tense
Strongest matches
adjective as in testy
adjective as in touchy
Strongest matches
adjective as in unbending
Weak matches
- aloof
- distant
- do-or-die
- dug in
- formal
- hard as nails
- hard-line
- hold one's ground
- hold the fort
- hold the line
- incompliant
- inelastic
- inexorable
- inflexible
- intractable
- locked-in
- obdurate
- relentless
- resolute
- set in stone
- severe
- single-minded
- standing one's ground
- standing pat
- sticking to one's guns
- stiff
- strict
- stubborn
- uncompromising
- unflexible
- unrelenting
- unswayable
- unyielding
- uptight
adjective as in uptight
adjective as in Victorian
adjective as in worried
adjective as in mistrustful
adjective as in tetchy
adjective as in twitchy
adjective as in untrusting
adjective as in concerned
adjective as in conventional
Strongest match
Weak matches
- bigoted
- bourgeois
- button-down
- commonplace
- conforming
- conservative
- demure
- doctrinal
- dogmatic
- drippy
- hackneyed
- hidebound
- humdrum
- illiberal
- in rut
- inflexible
- insular
- isolationist
- lame
- literal
- moderate
- moral
- narrow
- narrow-minded
- not extreme
- not heretical
- obstinate
- parochial
- pedestrian
- prosaic
- puritanical
- routine
- rube
- run-of-the-mill
- sober
- solemn
- square
- stereotyped
- straight
- strait-laced
- strict
- stuffy
- uptight
adjective as in defensive
adjective as in disagreeable
adjective as in distressed
Strong matches
adjective as in distrustful
adjective as in edgy
adjective as in frightened
Strong matches
adjective as in angry
Strongest matches
adjective as in anxious
Strongest matches
Weak matches
adjective as in incensed
adjective as in apprehensive
adjective as in inhibited
adjective as in insecure
adjective as in intimate
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in irascible
adjective as in jittery
adjective as in nervous
Strongest matches
adjective as in neurotic
adjective as in on edge
adjective as in overwrought
Strongest match
Weak matches
- affected
- agitated
- all shook up
- beside oneself
- crazy
- distracted
- emotional
- excitable
- fired-up
- flipped-out
- freaked-out
- histrionic
- histrionical
- hot under collar
- hot-and-bothered
- hyper
- in a state
- nervous
- neurotic
- on edge
- overexcited
- overstrung
- overworked
- spent
- steamed up
- stirred
- strung-out
- tense
- tired
- uneasy
- unstrung
- uptight
- weary
- wired
- worked-up
- worn
- wound-up
adjective as in petulant
adjective as in prudish
Strongest matches
adjective as in querulous
Weak matches
- bearish
- bemoaning
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- censorious
- complaining
- critical
- cross
- crying
- deploring
- discontented
- dissatisfied
- edgy
- fault-finding
- fretful
- grousing
- grumbling
- grumbly
- huffy
- irritable
- lamenting
- out of sorts
- peevish
- petulant
- plaintive
- scrappy
- snappy
- sour
- testy
- thin-skinned
- touchy
- uptight
- wailing
- waspish
- waspy
- whimpering
- whining
- whiny
adjective as in restive
adjective as in restrained
adjective as in reticent
adjective as in strained
adjective as in strait-laced
adjective as in strict
adjective as in sullen
Weak matches
- bad-tempered
- cheerless
- crabbed
- crabby
- cross
- cynical
- dismal
- dull
- fretful
- frowning
- glowering
- gruff
- heavy
- ill-humored
- inert
- irritable
- malevolent
- malicious
- malign
- mean
- moody
- obstinate
- ornery
- out of sorts
- peevish
- perverse
- pessimistic
- pouting
- pouty
- querulous
- saturnine
- silent
- sour
- sourpussed
- stubborn
- sulking
- sulky
- tenebrific
- tenebrous
- unsociable
- uptight
adjective as in suspicious
adjective as in tense
Strongest matches
adjective as in testy
adjective as in touchy
Strongest matches
adjective as in unbending
Weak matches
- aloof
- distant
- do-or-die
- dug in
- formal
- hard as nails
- hard-line
- hold one's ground
- hold the fort
- hold the line
- incompliant
- inelastic
- inexorable
- inflexible
- intractable
- locked-in
- obdurate
- relentless
- resolute
- set in stone
- severe
- single-minded
- standing one's ground
- standing pat
- sticking to one's guns
- stiff
- strict
- stubborn
- uncompromising
- unflexible
- unrelenting
- unswayable
- unyielding
- uptight
adjective as in uptight
adjective as in Victorian
adjective as in worried
adjective as in mistrustful
adjective as in tetchy
adjective as in twitchy
adjective as in untrusting
adjective as in concerned
adjective as in conventional
Strongest match
Weak matches
- bigoted
- bourgeois
- button-down
- commonplace
- conforming
- conservative
- demure
- doctrinal
- dogmatic
- drippy
- hackneyed
- hidebound
- humdrum
- illiberal
- in rut
- inflexible
- insular
- isolationist
- lame
- literal
- moderate
- moral
- narrow
- narrow-minded
- not extreme
- not heretical
- obstinate
- parochial
- pedestrian
- prosaic
- puritanical
- routine
- rube
- run-of-the-mill
- sober
- solemn
- square
- stereotyped
- straight
- strait-laced
- strict
- stuffy
- uptight
adjective as in defensive
adjective as in disagreeable
adjective as in distressed
Strong matches
adjective as in distrustful
adjective as in edgy
adjective as in frightened
Strong matches
adjective as in angry
Strongest matches
adjective as in anxious
Strongest matches
Weak matches
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When dry let it be stretched even, clapped with the hands, and rolled up tight and smoothly, till wanted.
But if I shut it up tight in a gun-barrel rammed down hard, it goes off with a loud bang, because it has to burst its way out.
I was making calls there the other day, and it was as slippery as it is now, and he held the reins up tight every minute.
If the brake be screwed up tight, the lamp once more becomes dark.
Take a long piece of meat, a foot long, or more; have all the bones cut out and roll it up tight.
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On this page you'll find 1633 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to up tight, such as: dogged, enraged, exasperated, indignant, infuriated, and irate.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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