Adjective

(en adjective)

(colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order.

Don't be so uptight ! You won't go to jail for crossing the street against the light.

(colloquial) Sexually repressed.

He came from a very uptight religious background, but you wouldn't know that now!

(colloquial) Unfriendly and rude.

* 1987 , :

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.

Adjective

(er)

Displaying or feeling anger.

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(said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful.

The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.

Dark and stormy, menacing.

Angry clouds raced across the sky.

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