Another word for tight
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Modifier
Firm
- Having or showing rugged physical strength or robust health:
- Substantially made or built; able to withstand stress or rough use:
- Marked by resoluteness or determination; firm:
- Comfortably sheltered and warm; cozy:
- Small but well arranged:
- Closely secured and well built; compact:
- Immune to attack; impregnable.
- Impossible to damage, injure, or wound.
- Stubbornly prejudiced, narrow-minded, or inflexible.
- Having abnormally dry, stiff skin that adheres closely to the underlying flesh. Used of domestic animals such as cattle.
- Having the bark so contracted and unyielding as to hinder growth. Used of trees.
- To put in a specified position or arrangement; place:
- To put into a specified state:
- To cause to begin an action:
- Not yielding; inflexible:
- Aloof and often antisocial; extremely reserved:
- Not giving way to pressure; hard or inflexible:
- Incapable of being changed; unalterable:
- Not willing to change or be persuaded; resolute:
- Firmly loyal or constant; unswerving.
- Fixed or unchanging:
- Fixed or unmovable:
- Lasting; continuing; durable:
- Long-suffering; patient.
- Resistant to change of position or condition; not easily moved or disturbed:
- Not subject to sudden or extreme change or fluctuation:
- Maintaining equilibrium; self-restoring:
- Physically powerful; capable of exerting great physical force.
- Marked by great physical power:
- In good or sound health; robust:
- Closely and firmly united or packed together; dense:
- Occupying little space compared with others of its type:
- Brief and to the point; concise:
- Tightly stretched; taut.
- In a state of nervous tension or mental strain:
- Causing or characterized by nervous tension or mental strain:
- Firm in position or place; fixed.
- Direct and unfaltering; sure.
- Free or almost free from change, variation, or fluctuation; uniform:
- Firmly in position; stationary:
- Determined; established; set:
- Not subject to change or variation; unchanging:
- simple past tense and past participle of clasp
- Being near in space or time.
- Being near in relationship:
- Bound by mutual interests, loyalties, or affections; intimate:
- Acting, moving, or capable of acting or moving quickly; swift.
- Accomplished in relatively little time:
- Acquired quickly with little effort and sometimes unscrupulously:
- Free from danger or attack:
- Free from risk of loss; safe:
- Free from the risk of being intercepted or listened to by unauthorized persons:
- Pulled or drawn tight; not slack.
- Flexed or not loose:
- Strained or tense:
Closed
- drilled, with the resulting hole filled with a base metal
- To move (a door or lid, for example) so as to block passage through an opening.
- To fasten with a lock, catch, or latch:
- To block entrance to or exit from; close:
- Sightless.
- Having a maximal visual acuity of the better eye, after correction by refractive lenses, of one-tenth normal vision or less (20/200 or less on the Snellen test).
- Of, relating to, or for sightless persons.
- simple past tense and past participle of obstruct
- simple past tense and past participle of slam
- simple past tense and past participle of snap
- Firmly in position; stationary:
- Determined; established; set:
- Not subject to change or variation; unchanging:
- simple past tense and past participle of clamp
- simple past tense and past participle of fasten
- simple past tense and past participle of lock
- Of a door, etc, that has been locked (with a key).
- (Dublin) Very drunk.
- simple past tense and past participle of bolt
- simple past tense and past participle of padlock
- sealed with an airtight hermetic seal
- So tightly made that water cannot enter or escape.
- Having no flaws or loopholes; impossible to fault, refute, or evade:
- Incapable of being penetrated:
- Incapable of being affected:
- Impossible to permeate:
- Impossible to penetrate or enter:
- Impossible to understand; incomprehensible:
- Impervious to sentiment or argument:
- Impermeable by air.
- Having no weak points; sound:
See also:Antonyms:Closefitting
- Capable of or designed for incising, shearing, or severing:
- Sharply penetrating; piercing:
- Injuring or capable of injuring the feelings of others:
- Present participle of smother.
- The act by which someone or something is smothered.
- overwhelming or decisive
- hurtful or demoralizing
- Having little length; not long.
- Having little height; not tall.
- Extending or traveling not far or not far enough:
- Fitting closely or clinging to the skin.
- Present participle of cramp.
- Experiencing physical discomfort.
- Ill at ease; uneasy.
- Causing anxiety; disquieting.
- Comfortably sheltered and warm; cozy:
- Small but well arranged:
- Closely secured and well built; compact:
*Intoxicated
- Slightly intoxicated.
- Unsteady or crooked.
- Delirious with or as if with strong drink; intoxicated.
- Habitually drunk.
- Of, involving, or occurring during intoxication:
- Intoxicated with alcohol; drunk:
- Intoxicated with alcoholic liquor to the point of impairment of physical and mental faculties.
- Caused or influenced by intoxication.
- Overcome by strong feeling or emotion:
See also:*Stingy
- Being near in space or time.
- Being near in relationship:
- Bound by mutual interests, loyalties, or affections; intimate:
- Excessively sparing or frugal.
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of a miser; avaricious or penurious.
See also:Difficult to obtain; said especially of money
- Made into, covered with, or surrounded by ice.
- Very cold:
- Preserved by freezing:
- Insufficient to meet a demand or requirement; short in supply:
- Hard to find; absent or rare:
- Barely or hardly; scarcely.
See also:
Idioms:
sit-tight
Synonym Study
- Tense suggests a tightness or tautness that results in great strain tense muscles See also syn. study at drunk.
- 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
- Tight implies a constricting or binding encirclement a tight collar or such closeness or compactness of parts as to be impenetrable airtight
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