cheerful vs uptight

cheerful

adj
  • Noticeably happy and optimistic. 

  • Bright and pleasant. 

uptight

adj
  • Emotionally repressed; nervous and tense. 

  • Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious. 

  • Sexually repressed. 

  • Unfriendly and rude. 

noun
  • An uptight person. 

How often have the words cheerful and uptight occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )