| 单词 | uptight |
| 释义 | uptight (once / 36706 pages) adj To be uptight is to be tense. When you're uptight, you're stressed out and anxious. If your friends are always telling you to relax, you may be a little uptight. People who are uptight tend to be stressed out. Your worried grandmother might be considered uptight, and so might your sister's angry teacher who is always yelling at the class. The adjective uptight was first used as popular slang in the 1930's to mean "tense." In the 1960's, the connotation changed to "straight-laced" or "conservative." For a brief time, uptight appeared in jazz slang meaning "excellent." WORD FAMILYuptight USAGE EXAMPLESThe Spanish DMV was being implacably uptight about it, for no obvious reason. Wall Street Journal(Dec 15, 2016) Cranston next appears on the big screen as an uptight dad in the James Franco comedy “Why Him?” opening Dec. 23. Los Angeles Times(Dec 11, 2016) Wenzel, 27, makes his living teaching wealthy but uptight German men how to approach women. Seattle Times(Nov 28, 2016) adj being in a tense state Syn edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive tense in or of a state of physical or nervous tension |
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