Synonyms for Tight:

adj.
• avaricious
- moneygrubbing
• cheap
- tight-wad
- mingier
- mingiest
- more tight wad
- more tight-wad
- more tightwad
- most tight wad
- most tight-wad
- most tightwad
• close
- close-grained
- sweltry
- fusty
- muggy
- stale-smelling
• difficult
- arduous
- demanding
- difficult
- hard
- knotty
- laborious
- onerous
- oppressive
- rough
- rugged
- severe
- strenuous
- thorny
- ticklish
- toilsome
- tricky
- troublesome
- uphill
- wearing
- wearisome
- wearying
• dull
- draggy
- inert
- without incident
- yawner
• economical
- curmudgeonly
- frugal
- money-saving
- on the rims
- penny-wise
- prudential
- thrifty
- time-saving
- timesaving
- unwasteful
- work-saving
• friendly
- companionable
• looped
- drunk as a skunk
- half-seas over
- Half seas over
- be sotted
- be-sotted
- drunk as skunk
- halfseas over
- high as kite
- in cups
- in one cups
- in ones cups
• narrow
- fine
- lanky
- lean
- linear
- scrawny
- skeletal
- skinny
- slender
- slim
- straiter
- tenuous
- thin
- willowy
- threadlike
• ordered
- methodical
- normal
- ordered
- regular
- stable
- steady
- symmetrical
- systematic
- uniform
• prepared
- done up
• short
- low on
- shorthanded
- shortest
• solid
- brick wall
- rocker
- rocklike
• stingy
- Hard-fisted
- meager
- miserly
- narrow-fisted
- petty
- spartan
- stingy
• strained
- at end of rope
- hard put
- in a state
- nervous wreck
- strung out
- unglued
- wrecker
• tenacious
- Clingy
- retentive
- unforgetful
• thick
- crawling with
- like sardines
• tight
- dense
- rigid
- taut
- tense
• tightfisted
- Pinchpenny
- pennywise
• unbreakable
- brass-bound
- infrangible
- non-breakable
- indestructible
- nonbreakable
• all
- tight
• amiable
- buddybuddy
- clubbier
- clubbiest
- de lightful
- de-lightful
- good natured
- goodhumored
- goodnatured
- more buddy buddy
- more buddy-buddy
- more buddybuddy
- more copacetic
- more pussycat
- more sweet tempered
- more sweet-tempered
- most buddy-buddy
- most buddybuddy
- most pussycat
- most sweet-tempered
- most sweettempered
- palsy walsy
- palsywalsy
- sweet tempered
- sweettempered
• close-fisted
- Closehanded
- close fisted
- close handed
- hard fisted
- more close handed
- more close-handed
- more closehanded
- most close handed
- most close-handed
- most closehanded
• closefitting
- hugging
- more hugging
- most hugging
• compact
- more appressed
- more bunched
- more compressed
- most appressed
- most bunched
- most compressed
• companionable
- buddy buddy
- more conversable
- most conversable
- out going
- out goinger
- out goingest
- out-going
- out-goinger
- out-goingest
- outgoing
- pallier
- palliest
- palsier
- palsiest
- social
• cramped
- in commodious
- in decipherable
- in-commodious
- in-decipherable
- more pent
- more squeezed
- more two by four
- more two-by-four
- most crabbed
- most pent
- most squeezed
- most two by four
- most two-by-four
- two by four
• crowded
- chock full
- chockfull
- elbow to elbow
- filled rafters
- filled the rafters
- filled to rafters
- filled to the rafters
- fit bust
- full house
- massed
- more brimful
- more crammed
- more crushed
- more elbow to elbow
- more elbow-to-elbow
- more huddled
- more massed
- more mobbed
- more sardined
- more swarming
- more thronged
- more wall to wall
- more wall-to-wall
- most crammed
- most crushed
- most elbow to elbow
- most elbow-to-elbow
- most huddled
- most massed
- most mobbed
- most sardined
- most swarming
- most thronged
- most wall to wall
- most wall-to-wall
- over flowing
- over-flowing
- swarming
- thronged
- up hilt
- up the hilt
- up to hilt
- wall to wall
• drunk
- be fuddled
- be-fuddled
- more buzzed
- more fuddled
- more juiced
- more laced
- more tanked
- more totaled
- most bashed
- most buzzed
- most juiced
- most tanked
- most totaled
- three sheets the wind
- three sheets to wind
- three sheets wind
- under table
• familiar
- in formal
- in-formal
- intrusive
- more familiar
- more free and easy
- more free-and-easy
- most buddy buddy
- most free and easy
- most free-and-easy
- officious
- pre sumptuous
- pre-sumptuous
- un ceremonious
- un constrained
- un-ceremonious
- un-constrained
- un-reserved
• fast
- true blue
• firm
- more anchored
- more bolted
- more braced
- more cemented
- more nailed
- more riveted
- more screwed
- more secured
- more soldered
- more tightened
- more unfluctuating
- more welded
- most anchored
- most bolted
- most braced
- most cemented
- most nailed
- most riveted
- most screwed
- most secured
- most soldered
- most tightened
- most unfluctuating
- most welded
- un fluctuating
- un shakable
- un-fluctuating
- un-shakable
• fixed
- located
- more hitched
- more immotile
- most hitched
- most immotile
• frugal
- more conserving
- more preserving
- most conserving
- most preserving
- pre serving
- pre-serving
- tightwad
• greedy
- in satiable
- in satiate
- in temperate
- in-satiable
- in-satiate
- in-temperate
- more esurient
- more gobbling
- more gormandizing
- more grudging
- more gulping
- more guzzling
- more insatiate
- more ravening
- more swinish
- most craving
- most esurient
- most gobbling
- most grudging
- most gulping
- most guzzling
- most insatiate
- most prehensile
- most ravening
- most swinish
• hermetic
- more shut
- more watertight
- most shut
- most watertight
• impervious
- in accessible
- in vulnerable
- in-accessible
- in-vulnerable
- more imperviable
- more unpierceable
- more unreceptive
- most imperviable
- most unpierceable
- most unreceptive
- un affected
- un approachable
- un pierceable
- un receptive
- un-approachable
- un-moved
- un-pierceable
- un-receptive
- unapproachable
• inebriated
- more inebriate
- most inebriate
• locked
- more cinched
- more padlocked
- most cinched
- most padlocked
• neck and neck
- neck neck
- nip tuck
• tough
- flinty
adv.
• fast
- soundly
• firmly
- in flexibly
- in-flexibly
- inflexibly
- like rock
- un flinchingly
- un-flinchingly
• hard
- harder
n.
- A-LINE
- backless
- baggy
- best
- boot-cut
- button-down
- button-through
- casual
- exclusive
- finite
- give
- prohibitive
- specific
- under control
- within limits
- in short/limited supply
- not go far
- pitiful
- loose
- adenoidal
- appealing
- breathy
- croaky
- dead
- disembodied
- fruity
- grating
- refrain from action
- remain
- stay put
- good
• blind drunk
- blind drunk
• close-fitting
- ample
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• close-fitting

shrunken

• drunk

• firm

• impermeable

impervious

• impervious

resistant

• indestructible

unbreakable

• intoxicated

drunken

• locked

fastened

• niggardly

sparing

• tough

hard going

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• Other relevant words (transitive noun):

unsupple

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Equivalence
- Adjective
  closest, stringent.
Reverse Entailment
- Adjective
  airtight, tightened, tightening, watertight.
- Proper noun, singular
  tightened, tightening.
- Noun, singular or mass
  tightening.
Independent
- Adjective
  adjusted, aggravating, austere, brief, compact, constraining, constrictive, cramped, demanding, dense, difficult, fierce, hardline, harsh, high, intensified, leakproof, limited, little, pressing, restive, restricted, scant, scarce, scrupulous, sharp, short, slender, slight, slim, small, stern, taut, thorough, tiny, toughened, urgent, vigorous, waterproof, leak-proof.
- Proper noun, singular
  judgements, forces, powers, clauses, sentences, rulings.
- Adverb
  closely, rigidly, short, tightly.
- Verb, past tense
  Dragged.
Other Related
- Adjective
  aggressive, close-knit, crowded, fraught, inflexible, intense, intimate, nervous, restrictive, rigid, rigorous, stiff, strained, stretched, strict, tense, uptight.
- Proper noun, singular
  strict.
- Adverb
  watertight.
- Verb, past tense
  tightened.

What are the hypernyms for Tight?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
close, compact, compressed, constricted, intense, snug, stiff, taut, tense, tightened.

What are the opposite words for tight?

Tight is a word that is often used to describe something that is secure, compact or fixed. The antonyms, or opposites, of tight are words that convey the opposite meaning, such as loose, slouchy, relaxed or baggy. Loose is the primary antonym of tight, describing something that is not tight or compact, such as loosely fitted clothes, a loose grip or a loose knot. Other antonyms for tight include slack, sloppy, roomy, unfastened, and baggy, which imply looseness or lack of constraint. These words can be used interchangeably depending on the context and the intended message.

What are the antonyms for Tight?

adj.
• all
- leaky
- loose
• baggy
- ill fitting
- illfitting
- more billowing
- more ill fitting
- more ill-fitting
- more illfitting
- more oversize
- more sagging
- most billowing
- most ill fitting
- most ill-fitting
- most illfitting
- most oversize
- most sagging
- over size
- over-size
- un shapelier
- un shapeliest
- un shapely
- un-shapelier
- un-shapeliest
- un-shapely
- unshapelier
- unshapeliest
• baggy, fat
- flabby
• close, snug
- broken
- calm
- comfortable
- easy
- easy-going
- flexible
- free
- giving
- intermittent
- laid-back
- moderate
- open
- pliable
- pliant
- reasonable
- slack
- slow
- sober
- soft
- uncaring
- uncrowded
- unfixed
- unsealed
- unstable
- untroubled
- untrustworthy
- weak
- wide
- wobbly
- yielding
• difficult, troublesome
- definite
- nice
• drooping
- baggy
- flaccid
• flabby
- Irresilient
- enervated
- gone seed
- gone to seed
- limp
- more irresilient
- more toneless
- most irresilient
- most toneless
- out condition
- out of condition
- out of shape
- out shape
- toneless
- un fit
- un-fit
• flaccid
- in elastic
- in-elastic
- more emasculated
- more enfeebled
- more sapped
- most emasculated
- most enfeebled
- most sapped
• lax
- any way
- asleep job
- asleep on job
- behindhand
- de relict
- de-relict
- devil may care
- dis regardful
- dis-regardful
- in accurate
- in definite
- in different
- in-definite
- in-different
- more nonspecific
- more overindulgent
- most imprecise
- most nonspecific
- most overindulgent
- non specific
- non-specific
- nonspecific
- over indulgent
- over-indulgent
- overindulgent
- paying no mind
- un-mindful
• limp
- in firm
- in firmer
- in firmest
- in-firmer
- in-firmest
- un substantial
- un-substantial
• loose
- Slackened
- Unhooked
- at large
- dis connected
- dis ordered
- dis reputable
- dis solute
- dis-connected
- dis-ordered
- dis-reputable
- dis-solute
- high living
- ill defined
- illdefined
- in distinct
- in secure
- in securer
- in securest
- in-constant
- in-distinct
- in-secure
- in-securer
- in-securest
- more apart
- more asunder
- more liberated
- more loosened
- more playing
- more slackened
- more speeding
- more unbolted
- more unbound
- more unbuttoned
- more uncaged
- more unclasped
- more unfastened
- more unhooked
- more unlatched
- more unpinned
- more unsecured
- more unshackled
- most apart
- most asunder
- most liberated
- most loosened
- most slackened
- most speeding
- most unbolted
- most unbound
- most uncaged
- most unclasped
- most unfastened
- most unhooked
- most unlatched
- most unpinned
- most unsecured
- most unshackled
- not fitting
- out control
- re-leased
- un bolted
- un bound
- un buttoned
- un caged
- un chaste
- un chaster
- un chastest
- un clasped
- un confined
- un done
- un fastened
- un fettered
- un hinged
- un hooked
- un latched
- un locked
- un pinned
- un restricted
- un secured
- un shackled
- un tied
- un-attached
- un-bolted
- un-bound
- un-buttoned
- un-caged
- un-chaste
- un-chaster
- un-chastest
- un-clasped
- un-confined
- un-connected
- un-fastened
- un-fettered
- un-hinged
- un-hooked
- un-latched
- un-locked
- un-pinned
- un-restrained
- un-restricted
- un-secured
- un-shackled
- un-tied
- unbolted
- uncaged
- unlatched
- unpinned
- unsecured
- unshackled
• noun
- Frittering
- absorbent
- abstemious
- abstinent
- airy
- aloof
- antisocial
- coarse
- cold
- compassionate
- cool
- detached
- distant
- drooping
- droopy
- dry
- elastic
- floppy
- freed
- frosty
- good-hearted
- greathearted
- handsome
- hanging
- harsh
- hospitable
- kindly
- lank
- lavish
- level
- magnanimous
- movable
- opened
- openhearted
- overgenerous
- penetrable
- permeable
- pervious
- profuse
- remote
- reserved
- resilient
- sagging
- selfless
- splurging
- springy
- standoffish
- steady
- stretchy
- supple
- teetotal
- temperate
- unattached
- unbound
- undone
- unequal
- unfastened
- unfriendly
- unsociable
- vulnerable
- wasting
- withdrawn
• puffy
- Distent
- bulgier
- bulgiest
- bulgy
- dis tended
- dis tent
- dis-tended
- dis-tent
- in flamed
- in-creased
- in-flamed
- more distent
- more expanded
- most distent
- most expanded
- puffy
• slack
- asleep on the job
- asleep the job
- easy going
- in-active
- in-attentive
- more easy going
- more easy-going
- more laggard
- more slow moving
- more slow-moving
- more slowmoving
- most born-again
- most easy going
- most laggard
- most slow moving
- most slow-moving
- most slowmoving
- not busy
- not taut
- slow moving
- slow-moving
- slowmoving
- un steadier
- un steadiest
- un steady
- un-steadier
- un-steadiest
p. pr. & vb. n.
• noun
- oozing
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Usage examples for Tight

Did ye squeeze thim tight?

"My Lady of the Chimney Corner"

Alexander Irvine

Keep yer eyes shut tight.

"My Lady of the Chimney Corner"

Alexander Irvine

In all the history of this bank we never were in so tight a place.

"The Eye of Dread"

Payne Erskine

Famous quotes with Tight

I'm into a casual-dressing girl: blue jeans and a tank top is super sexy. But the sexiest thing on a girl - when I see it I'm like, oh my God - is these little tight boxers. Don't get me wrong, g-strings are fine, but those cover a little, to where it's just enough.

Jensen Ackles
The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

Arthur Ashe
Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.

Red Barber
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

Amelia Barr
I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.

Jane Birkin

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adj.

adv.

n.

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