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tight adj
1 closely constrained or constricted or constricting; "tight skirts"; "he hated tight starched collars"; "fingers closed in a tight fist"; "a tight feeling in his chest" [ant: loose]
2 pulled or drawn tight; "taut sails"; "a tight drumhead"; "a tight rope" [syn: taut]
3 set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration; "in tight formation"; "a tight blockade"
4 pressed tightly together; "with lips compressed" [syn: compressed]
5 used of persons or behavior; characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly tip" [syn: mean, mingy, miserly]
6 affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow; "tight money"; "a tight market"
7 of such close construction as to be impermeable; "a tight roof"; "warm in our tight little house" [ant: leaky]
8 of textiles; "a close weave"; "smooth percale with a very tight weave" [syn: close]
9 securely or solidly fixed in place; rigid; "the bolts are tight"
10 (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched; "a close contest"; "a close election"; "a tight game" [syn: close]
11 very drunk [syn: 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]
12 exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent; "a nasty problem"; "a good man to have on your side in a tight situation" [syn: nasty]
13 demanding strict attention to rules and procedures; "rigorous discipline"; "tight security"; "stringent safety measures" [syn: rigorous, stringent]
14 packed closely together; "the stood in a tight little group"; "hair in tight curls"; "the pub was packed tight" adv
1 firmly or tightly; "held fast to the rope"; "her foot was stuck fast"; "held tight" [syn: fast]
2 in an attentive manner; "he remained close on his guard" [syn: close, closely]

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English

Etymology

*þéttr

Pronunciation

Adjective

  1. Pushed or pulled together.
    My socks are too tight.
  2. Of a space, etc, narrow, so that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
    The passageway was so tight we could barely get through.
    They flew in a tight formation.
  3. Under high tension.
    Make sure to pull the rope tight.
  4. Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
    Their marching band is extremely tight.
  5. Intimately friendly.
    We've grown tighter over the years.
  6. Intoxicated; drunk.
    We went drinking and got tight.
  7. Extraordinarily great or special.
    That is one tight bicycle!
  8. In the context of "slang|usually|_|derogatory": Miserly or frugal.
    He's a bit tight with his money
  9. Scarce, hard to come by.
    I grew up in a poor neighborhood; money was very tight, but we made do.
  10. A player who plays very few hands
  11. A strategy which involves playing very few hands

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pushed/pulled together
narrow
See narrow
under high tension
well-rehearsed and accurate
slang: extraordinarily great or special

Adverb

  1. Firmly, so as not to come loose easily.
    Make sure the lid is closed tight.
  2. Soundly.
    Good night, sleep tight.

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firmly
soundly
  • French: bien (sleep)
  • Icelandic: rótt
    used with the imperative form of sofa: sofðu
    Sofðu rótt — Sleep tight

Extensive Definition

  • Skin-tight garment, a garment that is held to the skin by elastic tension
  • Tights, a type of leg coverings fabric extending from the waist to feet (see also pantyhose)
  • Tightlacing, the practice of wearing a tightly-laced corset
  • High and tight, a hairstyle typical in the U.S. military
  • Tight end, a position in American football on the offensive team
  • Tight your black belt hard!, a popular judo manga in Japan
  • Tight (album), an album by Mindless Self Indulgence
  • TighT, a psychedelic trance live act from KohPhangan, Thailand
  • Tight playing style, in Poker, a style of play which means to rarely call/play a hand.
  • Tightness of measures is a concept in measure theory (and probability theory) in mathematics
  • Tight, also in Poker, a nickname for a hand making up a Full House
  • Tight, in slang is synonymous with cool, awesome, sweet, dank, word, etc.(
  • Tight, is also synonymous with intoxicated, drunk (archaic)
  • Tight, in slang is also a word for a miser, for example, "He's so tight that when he opens his mouth, it's like damn."
  • "Tight," a song by The Coup from their 2001 album Party Music
  • Tight, a mathematical term, as in 'tight frame'
  • Tight, a person (typically female, although the term also applies to inexperienced homosexual men) who rarely participates in sexual activities, resulting in abnormally low-diameter sexual openings.

Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words

Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, afflicted, airtight, all ataunto, anal, angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal, aposiopestic, arduous, ataunt, austere, autocratic, avaricious, ballproof, bent, binding, boiled, bombed, bombproof, bonded, boozy, brief, brusque, bulletproof, bungup and bilge-free, burglarproof, canned, cemented, cheap, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, circumscribed, clipped, close, close-fitting, closefisted, closely, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk, compact, compactly, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, confined, connected, consecutive, consistent, constricted, continuous, contracted, corrosionproof, cramp, cramped, crisp, critical, crocked, crocko, crowded, curt, cut, dampproof, dangerous, dear, dense, densely, difficult, dinky, distressing, disturbing, docked, dragged out, drawn, drawn out, drunk, drunken, dustproof, dusttight, elevated, elliptic, elongated, epigrammatic, exacting, exiguous, expensive, extended, fast, fastened, fire-resisting, fireproof, firm, firmly, fixed, fixedly, flameproof, foolproof, fried, fuddled, gasproof, gastight, glued, gnomic, half-seas over, hard and fast, hardfisted, harsh, hazardous, hermetic, hermetically sealed, high, holeproof, illiberal, illuminated, impenetrable, impermeable, impervious, impervious to, incapacious, incommodious, inebriated, inflexible, infrequent, inseparably, intoxicated, isthmian, isthmic, jammed, joined, laconic, leakproof, lengthened, lightproof, lighttight, limited, lit, lit up, loaded, lubricated, lushy, meager, mean, mingy, miserly, muzzy, narrow, near, neat, niggardly, noiseproof, oiled, oilproof, oiltight, orderly, organized, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, perilous, pickled, piddling, pie-eyed, pinchfisted, pinching, pissed, pissy-eyed, pithy, plastered, pointed, pokerlike, polluted, poor, potted, precarious, problematic, prolongated, prolonged, proof, proof against, protracted, pruned, pulled, punctureproof, punishing, raddled, rainproof, raintight, ramrodlike, rare, renitent, reserved, resistant, restricted, restrictive, rigid, rigorous, risky, rodlike, rough, rustproof, save-all, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scrimping, scrimpy, sealed, secure, secured, securely, seldom met with, seldom seen, sententious, sequent, sequential, serial, set, severe, shatterproof, shellacked, shellproof, shipshape, short, short and sweet, shortened, shut fast, skimping, skimpy, skintight, skunk-drunk, sleek, slender, slick, slim, smart, smashed, smokeproof, smoketight, snug, soaked, solid, solidly, soundproof, soused, sparse, spotty, sprinkled, spruce, spun out, squiffy, starched, starchy, staunch, steadfast, steadfastly, stern, stewed, sticky, stiff, stiff as buckram, stingy, stinko, stormproof, stormtight, straggling, strained, strait, stretched, stretched out, strict, stringent, strung out, stuck, succinct, summary, swacked, synopsized, taciturn, tanked, taped, taut, tenacious, tense, terse, thick, thin, ticklish, tiddly, tidy, tight-fisted, tightened, tightfisted, tightly, tipsy, to the point, touch-and-go, touchy, tough, tricksy, tricky, trig, trim, truncated, trying, uncompromising, under the influence, ungenerous, uninterrupted, unrelaxed, unyielding, upsetting, virgate, water-repellant, waterproof, watertight, weatherproof, wedged, well-cared-for, well-groomed, windproof, windtight, woozy
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