Synonyms for tight-assed
- adjective
Most common
conservative up-tight straight-laced stuffy anal fussy stingy
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Conservative — rigidly maintaining self-control; restricting oneself to generally accepted rules and behaviours
up-tight, conservative, straight-laced, stuffy, repressed, inhibited, conventional
2. Anal — excessively concerned with unimportant details; obsessively precise
anal, finicky informal, fussy, nit-picky, hair-splitting, punctilious, fastidious
3. Stingy — reluctant to spend money
Definitions
- adj. 1
Rigidly maintaining self-control; restricting oneself to generally accepted rules and behaviours.
- adj. 2
Excessively concerned with unimportant details; obsessively precise.
- adj. 3
Reluctant to spend money.
Related words
- Other spellings
- tight-arsed UK
Example sentences
- conservative Tom is too conservative to do something like that.
- stuffy It's so stuffy in here. Can someone open a window?
- anal My friend Kim has really bad anal bleeding sometimes.
- fussy Kalman's son started to get a bit fussy and tired.
By length
- 4 letters
- anal2
- 5 letters
- fussy2
- 6 letters
- stuffy2, stingy2
- 7 letters
- finicky3, miserly3
- 9 letters
- repressed2, inhibited4
- 10 letters
- fastidious4
- 11 letters
- punctilious4
- 12 letters
- conservative4, conventional4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (anal2 = 2 syllables).