tight
/taɪt/ adjective A1- Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open. · a tight sponge; a tight knot· Pull your seatbelts tight before takeoff.
- Unyielding or firm. · tight control on a situation
- Under high tension; taut. · Make sure to pull the rope tight.
- Scarce, hard to come by. · I grew up in a poor neighborhood; money was very tight, but we made do.
- Intimate, close, close-knit, intimately friendly. · We've grown tighter over the years.
- Miserly or frugal. · He's a bit tight with his money.
- Short of money.
- Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it. · The passageway was so tight we could barely get through.· They flew in a tight formation.
Comparative tighter · Superlative tightest
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“If my friend would undertake it there is no man who is better worth having at your side when you are in a tight place.
He wished to improve that which was already perfect—to draw the rope tighter yet round the neck of his unfortunate victim—and so he ruined all.
But the Tin Woodman caught the dog in his arms and held him tight, while he called to the mice, “Come back!
Matthew was not looking at her and would not have seen what she was really like if he had been, but an ordinary observer would have seen this: A child of about eleven, garbed in a very short, very tight, very ugly dress of yellowish-gray wincey.
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