Tight-assed

Quick meaning: Tight-assed is an adjective meaning (informal, derogatory) Rigidly maintaining self-control; restricting oneself to generally accepted rules and behaviours.

Meaning

(informal, derogatory) Rigidly maintaining self-control; restricting oneself to generally accepted rules and behaviours.

More Meanings

1. (informal, derogatory) Excessively concerned with unimportant details; obsessively precise.
2. (informal, derogatory) Reluctant to spend money.
3. (informal) Having firm or clenched buttocks.
4. (informal, of an article of, clothing) Fitting tightly in the area covering the buttocks.
5. (informal, derogatory) In an uptight or fastidious way.

Example Sentences

We have learned how—what do you call it?—tight-assed the white man is with his money.

Cuddles is the one in the money. Ain’t tight-assed about it either, which is why we hang together.

This noncritical atmosphere works for us because the three of us are so tight assed about revealing our emotions.

[…] Gottlieb obviously wishes, above all else in life, that he could turn himself into that miserable don and learn to write his spiteful-playful tight-assed vinegar prose.

Word Forms

• tight-arsed

Synonyms for tight-assed

Depending on context, synonyms include conservative, conventional, inhibited, repressed, straight-laced, stuffy.

Antonyms for tight-assed

Common opposites include easy-going, laid-back, relaxed.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tightfitting, tightness, tight, tightest, tightfisted, tightwad.

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