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[syn: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
uptight
adj 1: being in a tense state [syn: edgy, high-strung,
highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy,
overstrung, restive, uptight]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "uptight":
accordant, anal, bourgeois, compulsive, concordant, conformist,
conventional, corresponding, edgy, formalistic, harmonious,
in accord, in keeping, in line, in step, kosher, nervy, orthodox,
pedantic, plastic, precisianistic, restive, square, straight,
strained, stretched tight, stuffy, taut, tense, traditionalist,
under a strain, uneasy, unrelaxed