Laid-back is a term used to describe a person or situation that is relaxed, easy-going, and calm. However, there are several antonyms to this word that signify the opposite meaning. One of the most prominent antonyms of laid-back is tense, which describes someone or something that is uptight, nervous and always on edge. Another antonym is aggressive, which is more forceful and assertive than laid-back. Other antonyms include uptight, rigid, anxious, stressed, and intense, which all describe something or someone that is the opposite of calm, composed and relaxed. Overall, there are a wide range of antonyms to laid-back that depict a diverse set of characteristics, moods and dispositions.

What are the antonyms for Laid-back?

• adj.

  • aggressive
  • Assertory
  ,
  • anti pathetic
  ,
  • anti-pathetic
  ,
  • flipper
  ,
  • flippest
  ,
  • get and go
  ,
  • get go
  ,
  • get up and go
  ,
  • get up go
  ,
  • go after
  ,
  • hard sell
  ,
  • hawkish
  ,
  • more advancing
  ,
  • more assailing
  ,
  • more assertory
  ,
  • more attacking
  ,
  • more encroaching
  ,
  • more hawkish
  ,
  • more intruding
  ,
  • more invading
  ,
  • most advancing
  ,
  • most assailing
  ,
  • most assertory
  ,
  • most attacking
  ,
  • most encroaching
  ,
  • most hawkish
  ,
  • most intruding
  ,
  • most invading
  ,
  • nervy
  ,
  • offensive
  ,
  • shooting from hip
  ,
  • shooting from the hip
  ,
  • smart alecky
  ,
  • strenuous
  .
  • alarmed, apprehensive
  • fearful
  .
  • anxious, fearful
  • apprehensive
  ,
  • nervous
  .
  • apprehensive
  • Butterflies
  ,
  • biting nails
  ,
  • dis quieted
  ,
  • dis-quieted
  ,
  • feel bones
  ,
  • feel in bones
  ,
  • fore boding
  ,
  • fore-boding
  ,
  • get vibes
  ,
  • have a hunch
  ,
  • have funny feeling
  ,
  • have stage fright
  ,
  • in a cold sweat
  ,
  • in a dither
  ,
  • in cold sweat
  ,
  • in dither
  ,
  • in sweat
  ,
  • jellyfish
  ,
  • lily livered
  ,
  • lilylivered
  ,
  • mis trustful
  ,
  • mis-trustful
  ,
  • more butterflies
  ,
  • more disquieted
  ,
  • more foreboding
  ,
  • more jellyfish
  ,
  • more scaredy cat
  ,
  • more scaredy-cat
  ,
  • more scaredycat
  ,
  • most butterflies
  ,
  • most disquieted
  ,
  • most foreboding
  ,
  • most jellyfish
  ,
  • most scaredy cat
  ,
  • most scaredy-cat
  ,
  • most scaredycat
  ,
  • running scared
  ,
  • scaredy cat
  ,
  • scaredy-cat
  .
  • belligerent
  • pugnacious
  .
  • belligerent, hostile
  • aggressive
  .
  • bothered, upset
  • unsettled
  .
  • close, snug
  • tight
  .
  • easily offended
  • touchy
  .
  • easily upset, angered
  • quick-tempered
  .
  • edgy
  • ill ease
  ,
  • keyed up
  ,
  • more overstrung
  ,
  • most overstrung
  ,
  • over strung
  ,
  • over-strung
  ,
  • overstrung
  .
  • energetic
  • ball fire
  ,
  • ball of fire
  ,
  • demoniac
  ,
  • highpowered
  ,
  • more red blooded
  ,
  • more red-blooded
  ,
  • more redblooded
  ,
  • most demoniac
  ,
  • most red blooded
  ,
  • most red-blooded
  ,
  • most redblooded
  ,
  • red blooded
  ,
  • redblooded
  ,
  • un tiring
  ,
  • un-flagging
  ,
  • un-tiring
  .
  • excitable
  • Agitable
  ,
  • Alarmable
  ,
  • Hot-headed
  ,
  • ex citable
  ,
  • ex-citable
  ,
  • excitable
  ,
  • fidgety
  ,
  • galvanic
  ,
  • hot headed
  ,
  • hot tempered
  ,
  • hottempered
  ,
  • hysterical
  ,
  • in flammable
  ,
  • in tolerant
  ,
  • in-flammable
  ,
  • in-tolerant
  ,
  • mercurial
  ,
  • more agitable
  ,
  • more alarmable
  ,
  • more galvanic
  ,
  • more hot headed
  ,
  • more hot-headed
  ,
  • more nervous
  ,
  • more overzealous
  ,
  • more volcanic
  ,
  • most agitable
  ,
  • most alarmable
  ,
  • most galvanic
  ,
  • most hot headed
  ,
  • most hot-headed
  ,
  • most overzealous
  ,
  • most volcanic
  ,
  • over zealous
  ,
  • over-zealous
  ,
  • overzealous
  ,
  • reckless
  ,
  • short fused
  ,
  • un controlled
  ,
  • un-controlled
  ,
  • volcanic
  .
  • excited
  • aflame
  ,
  • de lighted
  ,
  • de-lighted
  ,
  • dis composed
  ,
  • dis concerted
  ,
  • dis-composed
  ,
  • dis-concerted
  ,
  • ex cited
  ,
  • ex-cited
  ,
  • hot bothered
  ,
  • hyper active
  ,
  • hyper-active
  ,
  • in a tizzy
  ,
  • in flamed
  ,
  • in tizzy
  ,
  • in-flamed
  ,
  • juiced up
  ,
  • more aroused
  ,
  • more awakened
  ,
  • more discomposed
  ,
  • more piqued
  ,
  • more roused
  ,
  • more ruffled
  ,
  • more stirred
  ,
  • most aflame
  ,
  • most aroused
  ,
  • most awakened
  ,
  • most discomposed
  ,
  • most piqued
  ,
  • most roused
  ,
  • most ruffled
  ,
  • most stirred
  ,
  • over-wrought
  ,
  • steamed up
  ,
  • tumultous tumultuous
  ,
  • tumultous-tumultuous
  ,
  • tumultoustumultuous
  ,
  • zipped up
  .
  • explosive
  • at boiling point
  ,
  • at the boiling point
  ,
  • convulsive
  ,
  • detonative
  ,
  • eruptive
  ,
  • ex plosive
  ,
  • ex-plosive
  ,
  • fulminant
  ,
  • more convulsive
  ,
  • more detonating
  ,
  • more eruptive
  ,
  • more fulminant
  ,
  • more fulminating
  ,
  • most convulsive
  ,
  • most detonating
  ,
  • most detonative
  ,
  • most eruptive
  ,
  • most fulminant
  ,
  • most fulminating
  ,
  • un controllable
  ,
  • un stable
  ,
  • un stabler
  ,
  • un stablest
  ,
  • un-controllable
  ,
  • un-stable
  ,
  • un-stabler
  ,
  • un-stablest
  .
  • fearful
  • aflutter
  ,
  • goose bumpy
  ,
  • goose-bumpy
  ,
  • more aflutter
  ,
  • more chicken
  ,
  • more goose bumpy
  ,
  • more goosebumpy
  ,
  • more weak kneed
  ,
  • more weak-kneed
  ,
  • more weakkneed
  ,
  • most aflutter
  ,
  • most chicken
  ,
  • most goose bumpy
  ,
  • most goosebumpy
  ,
  • most rabbity
  ,
  • most weak-kneed
  ,
  • most weakkneed
  ,
  • rabbity
  ,
  • un manlier
  ,
  • un manliest
  ,
  • un manly
  ,
  • un-manliest
  ,
  • un-manly
  ,
  • weak kneed
  ,
  • weakkneed
  .
  • fidgety
  • more hyper
  ,
  • more spooked
  ,
  • most spooked
  ,
  • most unrestful
  ,
  • nervous wreck
  ,
  • on pins and needles
  ,
  • on pins needles
  ,
  • un restful
  ,
  • un-restful
  ,
  • unrestful
  ,
  • up the wall
  ,
  • up wall
  .
  • forced, pretended
  • strained
  .
  • fretful
  • faultfinding
  ,
  • fractious
  ,
  • huffy
  ,
  • more caviling
  ,
  • more splenetic
  ,
  • most caviling
  ,
  • most splenetic
  ,
  • out sorts
  ,
  • short tempered
  ,
  • shorttempered
  ,
  • snappish
  ,
  • splenetic
  ,
  • worried
  ,
  • wrecker
  ,
  • wreckest
  .
  • full of life; forceful
  • energetic
  .
  • hard-nosed/hardheaded
  • hard boiled
  ,
  • hard nosed
  ,
  • hard-nosed
  ,
  • hardboiled
  ,
  • hardheaded
  ,
  • hardnosed
  ,
  • head strong
  ,
  • head-strong
  ,
  • headstrong
  ,
  • in tractable
  ,
  • in-tractable
  ,
  • levelheaded
  ,
  • locked in
  ,
  • more hard nosed
  ,
  • more tough nut
  ,
  • more tough-nut
  ,
  • more toughnut
  ,
  • more unsentimental
  ,
  • most hardheaded
  ,
  • most tough nut
  ,
  • most tough-nut
  ,
  • most toughnut
  ,
  • most unsentimental
  ,
  • re solute
  ,
  • re-solute
  ,
  • tough nut
  ,
  • tough-nut
  ,
  • toughnut
  ,
  • un sentimental
  ,
  • un yielding
  ,
  • un-sentimental
  ,
  • un-yielding
  ,
  • unsentimental
  .
  • healthy, powerful
  • strong
  .
  • impatient
  • dying to
  ,
  • having short fuse
  ,
  • head long
  ,
  • head-long
  ,
  • headlong
  ,
  • hot under collar
  ,
  • more appetent
  ,
  • more chafing
  ,
  • more straining
  ,
  • more unindulgent
  ,
  • most appetent
  ,
  • most chafing
  ,
  • most straining
  ,
  • most unindulgent
  ,
  • racing motor
  ,
  • racing one motor
  ,
  • racing one's motor
  ,
  • racing ones motor
  ,
  • ripe
  ,
  • thirsty
  ,
  • un indulgent
  ,
  • un-indulgent
  ,
  • unindulgent
  .
  • impatient, nervous
  • restive
  .
  • impressionable
  • sensitive
  .
  • inspired; upset
  • excited
  .
  • irritable
  • fretful
  .
  • irritable, bad-tempered
  • prickly
  .
  • irritable, touchy
  • testy
  .
  • jittery
  • more trembling
  ,
  • most trembling
  .
  • jumpy
  • more unrestful
  ,
  • timorous
  .
  • nervous
  • dis tressed
  ,
  • dis-tressed
  ,
  • edgy
  ,
  • jittery
  ,
  • jumpy
  ,
  • un strung
  ,
  • up set
  ,
  • up-set
  ,
  • uptight
  .
  • not content; moving about
  • restless
  .
  • noun
  • anxious
  ,
  • bothered
  ,
  • ceremonious
  ,
  • decorous
  ,
  • distressed
  ,
  • formal
  ,
  • high-strung
  ,
  • rigid
  ,
  • skittish
  ,
  • strict
  .
  • peremptory
  • high handed
  ,
  • highhanded
  ,
  • in controvertible
  ,
  • in-controvertible
  ,
  • peremptory
  ,
  • un compromising
  ,
  • un deniable
  ,
  • un-compromising
  ,
  • un-deniable
  .
  • pugnacious
  • chip on shoulder
  ,
  • chip shoulder
  ,
  • have a bone pick
  ,
  • have a bone to pick
  ,
  • have bone pick
  ,
  • have bone to pick
  ,
  • itching fight
  ,
  • itching to fight
  ,
  • more brawling
  ,
  • most brawling
  ,
  • ready fight
  ,
  • ready to fight
  ,
  • selfassertive
  .
  • quick-tempered
  • quick tempered
  ,
  • quicktempered
  .
  • restless
  • bundle nerves
  ,
  • bundle of nerves
  ,
  • in-constant
  ,
  • more bustling
  ,
  • more unpeaceful
  ,
  • most bustling
  ,
  • most fidgeting
  ,
  • most unpeaceful
  ,
  • strung out
  ,
  • tossing and turning
  ,
  • tossing turning
  ,
  • un peaceful
  ,
  • un quiet
  ,
  • un steadier
  ,
  • un steadiest
  ,
  • un steady
  ,
  • un-peaceful
  ,
  • un-quiet
  ,
  • un-quietest
  ,
  • un-steadier
  ,
  • un-steadiest
  ,
  • unpeaceful
  .
  • sensitive
  • easily affected
  ,
  • emotionable
  ,
  • hyper-sensitive
  ,
  • hypersensitive
  ,
  • more emotionable
  ,
  • more feeling
  ,
  • more hypersensitive
  ,
  • more oversensitive
  ,
  • more reactive
  ,
  • more sensatory
  ,
  • more sensile
  ,
  • more supersensitive
  ,
  • most emotionable
  ,
  • most hypersensitive
  ,
  • most oversensitive
  ,
  • most reactive
  ,
  • most sensatory
  ,
  • most sensile
  ,
  • most supersensitive
  ,
  • pre carious
  ,
  • pre-carious
  ,
  • re-active
  ,
  • reactive
  ,
  • sensatory
  ,
  • sensile
  ,
  • super sensitive
  ,
  • super-sensitive
  ,
  • supersensitive
  ,
  • touchy feely
  ,
  • tuned in
  ,
  • turned on to
  ,
  • turned to
  ,
  • under standing
  ,
  • under-standing
  .
  • skittish
  • more volative
  ,
  • most volative
  ,
  • un dependable
  ,
  • un reliable
  ,
  • un-dependable
  ,
  • un-reliable
  ,
  • volative
  .
  • solicitous
  • de voted
  ,
  • de-voted
  ,
  • more caring
  ,
  • most caring
  ,
  • raring
  ,
  • worried sick
  ,
  • worried stiff
  .
  • strained
  • at end of rope
  ,
  • at end rope
  ,
  • hard put
  ,
  • in a state
  ,
  • in state
  ,
  • more choked
  ,
  • more put
  ,
  • more unglued
  ,
  • more unrelaxed
  ,
  • most choked
  ,
  • most unglued
  ,
  • most unrelaxed
  ,
  • self conscious
  ,
  • selfconscious
  ,
  • un comfortable
  ,
  • un glued
  ,
  • un relaxed
  ,
  • un-comfortable
  ,
  • un-glued
  ,
  • un-natural
  ,
  • un-relaxed
  ,
  • unglued
  .
  • strong
  • able bodied
  ,
  • ablebodied
  ,
  • clear cut
  ,
  • clearcut
  ,
  • full bodied
  ,
  • fullbodied
  ,
  • hard as nails
  ,
  • heavy-duty
  ,
  • highly flavored
  ,
  • in dependent
  ,
  • in fine feather
  ,
  • in tense
  ,
  • in tenser
  ,
  • in-dependent
  ,
  • in-tense
  ,
  • in-tenser
  ,
  • in-tensest
  ,
  • iron willed
  ,
  • iron-willed
  ,
  • ironwilled
  ,
  • more heavy duty
  ,
  • more heavy-duty
  ,
  • more heavyduty
  ,
  • more inebriating
  ,
  • more iron willed
  ,
  • more iron-willed
  ,
  • more ironwilled
  ,
  • more strong flavored
  ,
  • more strong-flavored
  ,
  • more strongflavored
  ,
  • more unmixed
  ,
  • more well built
  ,
  • more well established
  ,
  • more well-built
  ,
  • more wellbuilt
  ,
  • more wellestablished
  ,
  • most heavy-duty
  ,
  • most heavyduty
  ,
  • most inebriating
  ,
  • most iron willed
  ,
  • most iron-willed
  ,
  • most ironwilled
  ,
  • most strong flavored
  ,
  • most strong-flavored
  ,
  • most strongflavored
  ,
  • most unmixed
  ,
  • most well built
  ,
  • most well established
  ,
  • most well-built
  ,
  • most well-established
  ,
  • most wellbuilt
  ,
  • most wellestablished
  ,
  • over powering
  ,
  • over-powering
  ,
  • re doubtable
  ,
  • re sourceful
  ,
  • re-doubtable
  ,
  • strong flavored
  ,
  • strong-flavored
  ,
  • strongflavored
  ,
  • take charge
  ,
  • un bending
  ,
  • un diluted
  ,
  • un mixed
  ,
  • un-bending
  ,
  • un-diluted
  ,
  • un-mixed
  ,
  • unmixed
  ,
  • well built
  ,
  • well established
  ,
  • well made
  ,
  • well-built
  ,
  • wellbuilt
  ,
  • wellestablished
  ,
  • wellfounded
  ,
  • wellmade
  .
  • temperamental
  • easily upset
  ,
  • in bad mood
  ,
  • in consistent
  ,
  • in-consistent
  ,
  • more cussed
  ,
  • most cussed
  ,
  • temperamental
  ,
  • thin skinned
  ,
  • thinskinned
  ,
  • un predictable
  ,
  • un-predictable
  .
  • tense
  • fluttery
  ,
  • more clutched
  ,
  • more fluttery
  ,
  • more overanxious
  ,
  • more shot
  ,
  • more stressful
  ,
  • more unnerved
  ,
  • most clutched
  ,
  • most fluttery
  ,
  • most shot
  ,
  • most stressful
  ,
  • most unnerved
  ,
  • nerve racking
  ,
  • nerveracking
  ,
  • over anxious
  ,
  • over-anxious
  ,
  • overanxious
  ,
  • shot pieces
  ,
  • shot to pieces
  ,
  • stressful
  ,
  • un nerved
  ,
  • un-nerved
  ,
  • unnerved
  ,
  • white knuckled
  .
  • testy
  • bad tempered
  ,
  • badtempered
  ,
  • ex-asperated
  ,
  • most exasperated
  .
  • tight
  • close fitting
  ,
  • close-fitting
  ,
  • in flexible
  ,
  • in vulnerable
  ,
  • in-flexible
  ,
  • in-vulnerable
  ,
  • more close fitting
  ,
  • more close-fitting
  ,
  • more constricted
  ,
  • more contracted
  ,
  • more stretched
  ,
  • more tightened
  ,
  • most close fitting
  ,
  • most close-fitting
  ,
  • most constricted
  ,
  • most contracted
  ,
  • most skintight
  ,
  • most stretched
  ,
  • most tightened
  ,
  • skintight
  .
  • tight, stretched
  • tense
  .
  • touchy
  • Perturbable
  ,
  • more perturbable
  ,
  • more pettish
  ,
  • most perturbable
  ,
  • most pettish
  ,
  • over sensitive
  ,
  • over-sensitive
  ,
  • oversensitive
  ,
  • pettish
  ,
  • un safe
  ,
  • un safer
  ,
  • un safest
  ,
  • un-safe
  ,
  • un-safer
  ,
  • un-safest
  ,
  • wired up
  .
  • unable, unwilling to wait
  • impatient
  .
  • uneasy
  • all nerves
  ,
  • anguished
  ,
  • dis mayed
  ,
  • dis-mayed
  ,
  • harassed
  ,
  • in secure
  ,
  • in securer
  ,
  • in securest
  ,
  • in turmoil
  ,
  • in-secure
  ,
  • in-securer
  ,
  • in-securest
  ,
  • more anguished
  ,
  • more dismayed
  ,
  • more harassed
  ,
  • more palpitant
  ,
  • more tormented
  ,
  • more vexed
  ,
  • most anguished
  ,
  • most dismayed
  ,
  • most harassed
  ,
  • most palpitant
  ,
  • most tormented
  ,
  • most vexed
  ,
  • on qui vive
  ,
  • on the qui vive
  ,
  • palpitant
  ,
  • un easier
  ,
  • un easiest
  ,
  • un easy
  ,
  • un-easier
  ,
  • un-easiest
  ,
  • un-easy
  ,
  • uneasy
  .
  • unsettled
  • changeful
  ,
  • dis orderly
  ,
  • dis-orderly
  ,
  • more changeful
  ,
  • more rattled
  ,
  • most changeful
  ,
  • most rattled
  ,
  • most shifting
  ,
  • un settled
  ,
  • un-balanced
  ,
  • un-settled
  .
  • uptight
  • old fashioned
  ,
  • oldfashioned
  ,
  • on defensive
  ,
  • up tight
  ,
  • up-tight
  ,
  • with drawn
  ,
  • with-drawn
  .
  • volatile, dangerous
  • explosive
  .
  • worried
  • solicitous
  .

• Other relevant words:

• nice
.

Famous quotes with Laid-back

• They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome personality, really laid-back. All those things are sexy to me.

  Laura Prepon

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