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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"
    
2. Pulled or drawn tight
   "a tight drumhead"; "a tight rope"
   - taut
    
3. Set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration
   "in tight formation"; "a tight blockade"
    
4. Pressed tightly together
   - compressed
    
5. (used of persons or behaviour) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
   - 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"
    
8. Of textiles
   "smooth percale with a very tight weave"
   - close
    
9. Securely or solidly fixed in place; rigid
   "the bolts are tight"
    
10. (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched
    "a tight game"
    - close
     
11. Very drunk
    - besotted [archaic], blind drunk, blotto, crocked [N. Amer], cockeyed, fuddled, loaded [N. Amer], pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, wet, paralytic [Brit], trolleyed [Brit], stinko, bombed, out of it [Brit], stonkered [Austral, NZ], mullered [Brit], bladdered [Brit], wasted, stewed, hammered, trashed, juiced [N. Amer], liquored up [N. Amer], tanked up, legless [Brit], three sheets to the wind, pickled, bevvied [Brit], drunk, pixillated, squiffed
     
12. Exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent
    "a good man to have on your side in a tight situation"
    - nasty
     
13. Demanding strict attention to rules and procedures
    "tight security"
    - rigorous, stringent
     
14. Packed closely together
    "they stood in a tight little group"; "hair in tight curls"; "the pub was packed tight"

1. Firmly or closely
   "held tight"
   - fast
    
2. In an attentive manner
   - close, closely

Derived forms: tighter, tightest

See also: airtight, air-tight, choky, clenched, clinched, close, closed, close-fitting, compact, demanding, difficult, dripless, drunk, equal, fine, gas-tight, hard, hermetic, impermeable, inebriated, intoxicated, invulnerable, leakproof, rainproof, scarce, seaworthy, secure, shut, skinny, skintight, skin-tight, snug, stingy, tense, tight fitting, tightfitting, tight-fitting, tightly, tightly fitting, tightness, ungenerous, viselike, waterproof, waterproofed, watertight

Antonym: leaky, loose

Encyclopedia: Tight