uptight: meaning and definitions

Slang Tense; nervous.

Slang Financially pressed; destitute.

Slang Outraged; angry.

Slang Rigidly conventional, as in manners, opinions, and tastes: "She sees this headlong, headstrong, plunge into worldliness as a protracted process of shucking the shame of her uptight upbringing” ( James Wolcott).