Another word for tight
tight
modif.
Firm
taut, secure, fast, bound up, close, clasped, fixed, steady, tense, stretched thin, established, compact, strong, stable, enduring, steadfast, unyielding, unbending, set, stuck hard, hidebound, invulnerable, snug, sturdy; see also firm 1.
Closed
sealed, airtight, impenetrable, impermeable, impervious, watertight, hermetically sealed, padlocked, bolted, locked, fastened, shut tight, clamped, fixed, tied, snapped, swung to, tied up, nailed, spiked, slammed, obstructed, blocked, blind, shut, stopped up, plugged; see also waterproof.
Antonyms open*, penetrable, unprotected.
Closefitting
pinching, shrunken, snug, uncomfortable, cramping, skintight, short, crushing, choking, smothering, cutting.
*Intoxicated
drunk, inebriated, drunken, tipsy; see drunk.
*Stingy
miserly, parsimonious, close; see stingy.
Difficult to obtain; said especially of money
tight implies a constricting or binding encirclement a tight collar or such closeness or compactness of parts as to be impenetrable airtight; taut (and often tight) is applied to a rope, cord, cloth, etc. that is pulled or stretched to the point where there is no slackness taut sails; tense suggests a tightness or tautness that results in great strain tense muscles See also syn. study at drunk.
sit tight*
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Another word for tight
Persistently holding to something:
clinging, fast, firm1, secure, tenacious. See free, tightenStretched tightly:
stiff, taut, tense. See tightenHaving all parts near to each other:
close, compact1, crowded, dense, packed, thick. See tightenBased on good judgment, reasoning, or evidence:
cogent, just, solid, sound2, valid, well-founded, well-grounded. See good, reasonCharacterized by an economy of artistic expression:
lean2, spare. See styleAffording little room for movement:
close, confining, cramped, crowded, narrow, snug. See tighten- (Slang)
Very closely associated:
chummy, close, familiar, friendly, intimate1. (Informal) thick. Idiom: hand in glove with. See love Ungenerously or pettily reluctant to spend money:
cheap, close, close-fisted, costive, hard-fisted, mean2, miserly, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, petty, pinching, stingy, tightfisted. See giveHard to deal with or get out of:
rough, tricky. (Informal) sticky. See easyNearly equivalent or even:
close, neck and neck, nip and tuck. See near- (Chiefly British)
In good order or clean condition:
neat, orderly, shipshape, snug, spick-and-span, spruce, taut, tidy, trig, trim, well-groomed. Idiom: neat as a pin. See clean, order - (Slang)
Stupefied, excited, or muddled with alcoholic liquor:
besotted, crapulent, crapulous, drunk, drunken, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, sodden, tipsy. (Informal) cockeyed, stewed. (Slang) blind, bombed, boozed, boozy, crocked, high, lit (up), loaded, looped, pickled, pixilated, plastered, potted, sloshed, smashed, soused, stinking, stinko, stoned, zonked. Idioms: drunk as a skunk, half-seas over, high as a kite, in one's cups, three sheets in (or to) the wind. See drugs
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