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Uptight vs Dicty - What's the difference?

uptight | dicty |

As an adjective uptight

is (colloquial) excessively concerned with rules and order.

As a noun uptight

is (colloquial) an uptight person.

As a proper noun dicty is

diminutive of dictyostelium discoideum ( a soil social amoeba ).

uptight

English

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.

    See also

    * anal retentive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (colloquial) An uptight person.

    • dicty

    English

    Alternative forms

    * dickty

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (African American Vernacular English) stylish and respectable; high-class
  • (African American Vernacular English) striving to seem stylish and respectable; pretentious
  • (African American Vernacular English) snobbish and uptight

    • Noun

    (dicties)
  • (African American Vernacular English) An upper-class black.

    • Synonyms

    * (high-class) chic, classy, ritzy * (pretentious) flashy, showy * (snobbish) haughty, hoity-toity, snobby, snooty, stuck-up