英和和英

形容詞

uptight (comparative uptighter or more uptight, superlative uptightest or most uptight)

1. (colloquial) 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. (colloquial) Sexually repressed.

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

4. (colloquial) Unfriendly or rude.
   • 1987, Bruce Robinson, Withnail and I:

     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.

派生語

名詞

uptight (plural uptights)

1. (colloquial) An uptight person.
   • 1998, Stewart Home, Suspect Device: A Reader in Hard-edged Fiction (page 59)

     […] bunch of uptights who can be divided into two antagonistic factions: either they are gay and suffer from an excess of the fraternity spirit, or despite reaching middle-age they are still to be found fondling runaway teenagers […]

参考

• anal-retentive
• petty bourgeois
• narrow-minded
• stuffy