Edgy vs Uptight - What's the difference?
edgy | uptight |
nervous, apprehensive
(entertainment/advertising jargon): creatively challenging; cutting edge; leading edge
(entertainment/advertising jargon) : on the edge between acceptable and offensive; pushing the boundaries of good taste; dodgy
(dated) irritable
(art) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined.
* Hazlitt
(of a knife or blade) sharp.
(colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order.
(colloquial) Sexually repressed.
(colloquial) Unfriendly and rude.
* 1987 , :
As adjectives the difference between edgy and uptight
is that edgy is nervous, apprehensive while uptight is (colloquial) excessively concerned with rules and order.As a noun uptight is
(colloquial) an uptight person.edgy
English
Adjective
(er)- an edgy temper
- An edgy style of sculpture.
uptight
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Don't be so uptight ! You won't go to jail for crossing the street against the light.
- He came from a very uptight religious background, but you wouldn't know that now!
- 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.
