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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“Yes, and pretty tight too, I can tell you,” was the answer.
I came very near to falling on my last hunt--very near indeed--and the noise of my slipping, for my tail was not tight wrapped around the tree, waked the Bandar-log, and they called me most evil names.”
As he held he closed his jaws tighter and tighter, for he made sure he would be banged to death, and, for the honor of his family, he preferred to be found with his teeth locked.
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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