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| Shopping | The largest selection of TIGHT products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| Sounds | tay't |
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| Rhymes | acolyte, airtight, alight, and 175 more rhymes in ayt... |
| Meaning | Closely constrained or constricted or constricting. |
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| Examples | "tight skirts"; "he hated tight starched collars"; "fingers closed in a tight fist"; "a tight feeling in his chest" |
| Contrary | loose |
| Similar | binding, constricting; choky; clenched, clinched; close, snug, close-fitting; skintight, skin-tight; tight-fitting, tightly fitting, skinny; viselike |
| See also | tight; tense |
| Nouns | tightness |
| Adverbs | tightly |
| Meaning | Pulled or drawn tight. |
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| Examples | "a tight drumhead"; "a tight rope" |
| Synonyms | taut |
| Similar to | tense |
| Nouns | tightness |
| Meaning | Set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration. |
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| Examples | "in tight formation"; "a tight blockade" |
| Similar to | invulnerable |
| Nouns | tightness |
| Meaning | Pressed tightly together. |
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| Synonyms | compressed |
| Similar to | closed, shut |
| Meaning | (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity. |
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| Synonyms | mean, mingy, miserly |
| Similar to | stingy, ungenerous |
| Nouns | tightness |
| Meaning | Affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow. |
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| Examples | "tight money"; "a tight market" |
| Similar to | scarce |
| Category | economics, economic science, political economy |
| Nouns | tightness |
| Meaning | Of such close construction as to be impermeable. |
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| Examples | "a tight roof"; "warm in our tight little house" |
| Contrary | leaky |
| Similar | airtight, air-tight, gas-tight; dripless; hermetic; leakproof; rainproof, waterproof, waterproofed; snug; watertight |
| See also | tight; impermeable; seaworthy |
| Meaning | Of textiles. |
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| Examples | "smooth percale with a very tight weave" |
| Synonyms | close |
| Similar to | fine |
| Meaning | Securely or solidly fixed in place. Rigid. |
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| Examples | "the bolts are tight" |
| Similar to | secure |
| Adverbs | tightly |
| Meaning | (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched. |
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| Examples | "a tight game" |
| Synonyms | close |
| Similar to | equal |
| Meaning | Very drunk. |
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| Synonyms | besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, potty, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tiddly, tiddley, tipsy, wet |
| Similar to | intoxicated, drunk, inebriated |
| Usage | slang, cant, jargon, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular |
| Meaning | Exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent. |
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| Examples | "a good man to have on your side in a tight situation" |
| Synonyms | nasty |
| Similar to | difficult, hard |
| Meaning | Demanding strict attention to rules and procedures. |
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| Examples | "tight security" |
| Synonyms | rigorous, stringent |
| Similar to | demanding |
| Meaning | Packed closely together. |
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| Examples | "the stood in a tight little group"; "hair in tight curls"; "the pub was packed tight" |
| Similar to | compact |
| Meaning | Firmly or tightly. |
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| Examples | "held tight" |
| Synonyms | fast |
| Meaning | In an attentive manner. |
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| Synonyms | close, closely |
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