Tight

//taɪt//

Synonyms for "tight" (545 found)

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Closest matches (109)

compact miserly taut boozy close closely compressed drunk fast firmly hermetic intoxicated leakproof narrow parsimonious penurious scarce secure snug stingy

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Adjective(23 words)

awesome chummy close lash narrow punctilious taut wonderful a+a-plus abstemious ace apt befuddled bibulous blotto bosky bully buzzed canny

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close-fitting close-knit compact

Adjective(6 words)

besotted blind drunk blotto close cockeyed compressed

Adverb(2 words)

close closely

Strong matches (164)

consecutive consistent constricted contest continuous contracted corrosionproof cramp cramped crisp critical crocked crocko crowded curt cut dampproof dangerous dear dense

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Adjective(46 words)

consummate cool corny crafty crapulous crowded dandy def dense dexterous dope drunk excellent fab fantastic fast figure-hugging finger-lickin' good fireball firm

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fluted form-fitting fou frugal gacked grouse half cut halfhearted intimate intoxicate juiced killer lapidary legless lubed up mad with it masterly maudlin mean messed up meticulous minute miserable muddy mullered mythic

Adjective(7 words)

crocked fuddled loaded mean mingy miserly nasty

Adverb(2 words)

fast firmly

Adverb(1 words)

fast

Related words (272)

near neat niggard niggardly noiseproof oiled oilproof oiltight orderly organized penny pinching penny-pinching perilous petty pickled piddling pie eyed pie-eyed pinchfisted pinching

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pissed pissy-eyed pithy plastered pointed pokerlike polished 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 scattered scrimping scrimpy sealed secured securely seldom met with seldom seen selfish sententious sequent sequential serial set severe shatterproof shellacked shellproof shipshape short short and sweet shortened shut fast skimping skimpy skin tight skintight skunk-drunk sleek slender slick slim small smart smashed smokeproof smoketight soaked solid solidly soundly soundproof soused sparing sparse spartan spotty sprinkled spruce spun out squiffy starched starchy staunch steadfast steadfastly stern stewed sticky stiff stiff as buckram stinko stinky stormproof stormtight straggling strained stretched stretched out strung out stuck succinct summary swacked synopsized taciturn tanked taped tenacious tense terse thick thin ticklish tiddly tidy tight-fisted tightened tightfisted tightly tightly fitting tipsy to the point touch-and-go touchy tough tricksy tricky trig trim truncated trying uncompromising unconquerable under the influence ungenerous ungiving uninterrupted unrelaxed unyielding upsetting virgate viselike water-repellant waterproof waterproofed weatherproof wedged well-cared-for well-groomed well-kept windproof windtight woozy zonked

Adjective(67 words)

niggardly nimptopsical obliterated orderly ossified outstanding para parro parsimonious particular peloothered peng phat plastered polished potshot precise prudent rad regular

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Adjective(16 words)

pie-eyed pissed pixilated plastered rigorous slopped sloshed smashed soaked soused sozzled squiffy stiff stringent taut wet

Adverb(4 words)

securely soundly tightly well

Related word relations

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10 relation types

More general

1 entries

immobile

More specific

3 entries

close-fitting compact taut

Antonyms

9 entries

badly baggy broad crap leaky loose loosely slack

Synonyms

32 entries

ace blind drunk boozy close close fisted closely compact compressed contest disguise drew drunk fast firmly impassable intoxicated

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Related terms

1 entries

tighten

derived

78 entries

airtight as tight as Dick's hatband as tight as a duck's arse as tight as a gnat's chuff blow me tight bottle-tight dust-tight finger tight finger-tight gastight hand-tight hang tight high and tight hog tight hold tight hug-me-tight

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distinct from

1 entries

loose

has context

4 entries

british regional economics poker slang

related to

5 entries

impermeable rehearse seaworthy tense tighten

similar

62 entries

air tight air-tight airtight choky clenched clinched close close fitting close-fitting closed compact demanding difficult

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Translations

154 translations across 61 languages.

Albanian

4 entries

cekët adj (slang: mean, miserly — see also tight-fisted)
ngjitur adj (firmly held together)
ngushtë adj (slang: mean, miserly — see also tight-fisted)
njesh (gheh) adj (firmly held together)

Arabic

3 entries

ضَيِّق adj (pushed/pulled together)
ضَيِّق adj (pushed/pulled together)
محزق adj (pushed/pulled together)

Armenian

4 entries

կիպ adj (firmly held together)
կիպ adj (pushed/pulled together)
ձիգ adj (pushed/pulled together)
ձիգ adj (under high tension — see also taut)

Bashkir

2 entries

ныҡ тартылған adj (under high tension — see also taut)
тығыҙ adj (pushed/pulled together)

Belarusian

2 entries

тугі́ adj (under high tension — see also taut)
це́сны adj (pushed/pulled together)

Bikol Central

2 entries

higot adj (fitting close, or too close, to the body — see also tight-fitting)
piot adj (firmly held together)

Bulgarian

4 entries

опънат adj (under high tension — see also taut)
стегнат adj (firmly held together)
те́сен adj (pushed/pulled together)
здраво adv (soundly)

Burmese

1 entries

ကျပ် adj (pushed/pulled together)

Cebuano

1 entries

hugot adj (pushed/pulled together)

Central Kurdish

1 entries

تەنگ adj (pushed/pulled together)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

緊 /紧 adj (pushed/pulled together)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries

緊 /紧 adj (firmly held together)
緊 /紧 adj (pushed/pulled together)
緊張 /紧张 adj (under high tension — see also taut)

Church Slavic

1 entries

тѫгъ adj (under high tension — see also taut)

Czech

1 entries

těsný adj (pushed/pulled together)

Danish

1 entries

snæver adj (firmly held together)

Dutch

2 entries

dicht adj (pushed/pulled together)
strak adj (firmly held together)

Esperanto

2 entries

strikta adj (pushed/pulled together)
strikte adv (firmly)

Estonian

1 entries

tihe adj (under high tension — see also taut)

Finnish

3 entries

kireä adj (pushed/pulled together)
timmi adj (pushed/pulled together)
tiukka adj (pushed/pulled together)

French

4 entries

ivre adj (slang: intoxicated or drunk)
moulant adj (fitting close, or too close, to the body — see also tight-fitting)
serré adj (pushed/pulled together)
serré adj (fitting close, or too close, to the body — see also tight-fitting)

German

4 entries

dicht adj (pushed/pulled together)
dicht adj (slang: intoxicated or drunk)
eng adj (firmly held together)
eng adj (pushed/pulled together)

Greek

2 entries

σφιχτός adj (firmly held together)
σφιχτός adj (pushed/pulled together)

Higaonon

1 entries

hugut adj (pushed/pulled together)

Hiligaynon

1 entries

hugut adj (pushed/pulled together)

Hungarian

3 entries

szoros adj (firmly held together)
szoros adj (pushed/pulled together)
szűk adj (fitting close, or too close, to the body — see also tight-fitting)

Icelandic

4 entries

þrengdur adj (pushed/pulled together)
þröngur adj (under high tension — see also taut)
þéttur adj (under high tension — see also taut)
rótt adv (soundly)

Indonesian

1 entries

ketat adj (firmly held together)

Ingrian

2 entries

kiintiä adj (firmly held together)
kiintiä adj (pushed/pulled together)

Italian

4 entries

aderente adj (pushed/pulled together)
nitido adj (well-rehearsed and accurate)
stretto adj (pushed/pulled together)
stretto adj (fitting close, or too close, to the body — see also tight-fitting)

Japanese

1 entries

きつい adj (pushed/pulled together)

Khmer

1 entries

តឹង adj (pushed/pulled together)

Latgalian

2 entries

stiprys adj (pushed/pulled together)
styngrys adj (pushed/pulled together)

Latin

1 entries

strictus adj (pushed/pulled together)

Latvian

4 entries

ciešs adj (pushed/pulled together)
ciešs adj (under high tension — see also taut)
cieši adv (firmly)
cieši adv (soundly)

Lithuanian

1 entries

ankštas adj (pushed/pulled together)

Macedonian

1 entries

тесен adj (pushed/pulled together)

Marathi

2 entries

घट्ट adj (firmly held together)
घट्ट adj (under high tension — see also taut)

Mizo

2 entries

mar adj (under high tension — see also taut)
tâwt adj (pushed/pulled together)

Māori

4 entries

haurangi adj (slang: intoxicated or drunk)
hākere adj (slang: mean, miserly — see also tight-fisted)
ita adj (firmly held together)
kaihākere adj (slang: mean, miserly — see also tight-fisted)

Northern Kurdish

1 entries

teng adj (pushed/pulled together)

Norwegian

1 entries

snever adj (firmly held together)

Old Church Slavonic

1 entries

тѣснъ adj (pushed/pulled together)

Old East Slavic

2 entries

тугъ adj (under high tension — see also taut)
тѣснъ adj (pushed/pulled together)

Persian

1 entries

تنگ adj (pushed/pulled together)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

faust adj (firmly held together)

Polish

4 entries

ciasny adj (firmly held together)
ciasny adj (pushed/pulled together)
ciasny adj (fitting close, or too close, to the body — see also tight-fitting)
obcisły adj (fitting close, or too close, to the body — see also tight-fitting)

Portuguese

2 entries

apertado adj (pushed/pulled together)
justo adj (pushed/pulled together)

Punjabi

1 entries

چَوَل adj (slang: mean, miserly — see also tight-fisted)

Russian

3 entries

те́сный adj (firmly held together)
те́сный adj (pushed/pulled together)
туго́й adj (under high tension — see also taut)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

tijésan adj (pushed/pulled together)
tésan adj (pushed/pulled together)
те́сан adj (pushed/pulled together)
тије́сан adj (pushed/pulled together)

Slovak

1 entries

tesný adj (pushed/pulled together)

Slovene

1 entries

tesen adj (pushed/pulled together)

Spanish

4 entries

ajustado adj (pushed/pulled together)
apretado adj (pushed/pulled together)
tensado adj (under high tension — see also taut)
tensionado adj (under high tension — see also taut)

Swedish

1 entries

snäv adj (firmly held together)

Thai

3 entries

คับ adj (pushed/pulled together)
แน่น adj (firmly held together)
แน่น adj (pushed/pulled together)

Turkish

1 entries

bitişik adj (firmly held together)

Tày

1 entries

cặp adj (pushed/pulled together)

Ukrainian

2 entries

туги́й adj (under high tension — see also taut)
тісни́й adj (pushed/pulled together)

Vietnamese

1 entries

chật adj (pushed/pulled together)

Yiddish

1 entries

ענג adj (pushed/pulled together)

Zazaki

2 entries

pêpêya adj (firmly held together)
tenge (diq) adj (pushed/pulled together)

Sample sentences

63 total sentences available.

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Being a teacher, you must learn to keep a tight rein on your emotions.

Source: tatoeba (16313)

These shoes are too tight. They hurt.

Source: tatoeba (18119)

Check all the loose knots and fasten them tight.

Source: tatoeba (20951)

If we hang tight, I'm sure we can make it through these bad times.

Source: tatoeba (23510)

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