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Uptight vs Uptightly - What's the difference?

uptight | uptightly |

As an adjective uptight

is (colloquial) excessively concerned with rules and order.

As a noun uptight

is (colloquial) an uptight person.

As an adverb uptightly is

in an uptight manner.

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.

    • uptightly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In an uptight manner.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=May 7, author=Cintra Wilson, title=Is There a Setting for High Strung?, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Child-women were bowed and baby-dolled up to resemble decorative Easter eggs: newly and uptightly pregnant (a paragon of marital fidelity), half-crippled by feminine weakness and excess luxury, declawed and wholly dominated by the unstoppable twin libidos of war and Wall Street. }}