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Tight   /taɪt/   Listen
Tight

adjective
(compar. tighter; superl. tightest)
1.
Closely constrained or constricted or constricting.  "He hated tight starched collars" , "Fingers closed in a tight fist" , "A tight feeling in his chest"
2.
Pulled or drawn tight.  Synonym: taut.  "A tight drumhead" , "A tight rope"
3.
Set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration.  "A tight blockade"
4.
Pressed tightly together.  Synonym: compressed.
5.
(used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity.  Synonyms: mean, mingy, miserly.  "He left a miserly tip"
6.
Affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow.  "A tight market"
7.
Of such close construction as to be impermeable.  "Warm in our tight little house"
8.
Of textiles.  Synonym: close.  "Smooth percale with a very tight weave"
9.
Securely or solidly fixed in place; rigid.
10.
(of a contest or contestants) evenly matched.  Synonym: close.  "A close election" , "A tight game"
11.
Very drunk.  Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, wet.
12.
Exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent.  Synonym: nasty.  "A good man to have on your side in a tight situation"
13.
Demanding strict attention to rules and procedures.  Synonyms: rigorous, stringent.  "Tight security" , "Stringent safety measures"
14.
Packed closely together.  "Hair in tight curls" , "The pub was packed tight"
adverb
1.
Firmly or closely.  Synonym: fast.  "Her foot was stuck fast" , "Held tight"
2.
In an attentive manner.  Synonyms: close, closely.



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"Tight" Quotes from Famous Books



... which ran "Your old pal Bunkie the working man." His clothes were a check of three-inch squares, "Bright brown and fawn with the pearls in pairs," Double pearl buttons ran down the side, The knees were tight and the ankles wide, A bright, thick chain made of discs of tin Secured a board from his waist ...
— Right Royal • John Masefield
... Plumer ahead of her to the top of the ladder? What was at the top of the ladder? A sense that all the rungs were beneath one apparently; since by the time that George Plumer became Professor of Physics, or whatever it might be, Mrs. Plumer could only be in a condition to cling tight to her eminence, peer down at the ground, and goad her two plain daughters to climb ...
— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf
... tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, was Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! External heat and cold had little influence on him. No warmth could warm, no cold could ...
— Short Stories Old and New • Selected and Edited by C. Alphonso Smith
... flow of indignant speech ere it was well begun. He caught her in his arms, and held her tight, and so sudden was the act, so firm his grip that she had not the thought or force ...
— Mistress Wilding • Rafael Sabatini
... Paris!" He would often say: "Every earthly pleasure One can have for—pay. Wealth gives high position; But when money's tight, Man is at a discount, And it serves ...
— Poems • George P. Morris


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