uptight
adjetivosubstantivoatestado nos diálogos
- //ʌpˈtaɪt//
Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious.
adjetivo
- 1
Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious.
Don't be so uptight! You won't go to jail for crossing the street against the light.
- 2
Emotionally repressed; nervous and tense.
- 3
Sexually repressed.
He came from a very uptight religious background, but you wouldn't know that now!
- 4
Unfriendly or rude.
Withnail: Just because the best tailoring you’ve ever seen is above your fucking appendix doesn’t mean anything. / Danny: Don’t get uptight with me, man.
substantivo
- 1
An uptight person.
Formas
- plural
- uptights
- comparativo
- uptighter, more uptight
- superlativo
- uptightest, most uptight
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