Synonyms of the word

tight

• adj. Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
• adj. (of a space, design or arrangement) Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass…
• adj. Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
• adj. (slang) Intoxicated; drunk or acting like being drunk.
• adj. (slang) Extraordinarily great or special.
• adj. (slang, British (regional)) Mean; unfair; unkind.
• adj. (obsolete) Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy.
• adj. (obsolete) Handy; adroit; brisk.
• adj. (poker) Of a player, who plays very few hands.
• adj. (poker) Using a strategy which involves playing very few hands.
• adv. Firmly, so as not to come loose easily.
• adv. Soundly.
• v. (obsolete) To tighten.

air-tight

• adj. Alternative form of airtight.

airtight

• adj. Being impermeable to air or other gases.
• adj. (figuratively) Having no weak points or flaws.
• adj. (figuratively, of a person) Highly reserved in some matter, particularly tight-lipped or tight-fisted.

besotted

• adj. infatuated.
• adj. intellectually or morally blinded.
• adj. intoxicated.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of besot.

binding

• adj. Assigning something that one will be held to.
• adj. (of food) Having the effect of counteracting diarrhea.
• n. An item (usually rope, tape, or string) used to hold two or more things together.
• n. The spine of a book where the pages are held together.
• n. (sewing) A finishing on a seam or hem of a garment.
• n. (programming) The association of a named item with an element of a program.
• n. (programming) The interface of some library for the programming language other than one it is written…
• n. (chemistry) The action or result of making two or more molecules stick together.
• v. present participle of bind.

blotto

• adj. (slang) Drunk.

choky

• adj. Alternative form of chokey.
• n. Alternative form of chokey.

clenched

• adj. Closed tightly.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of clench.

clinched

• v. simple past tense and past participle of clinch.

close

• v. (physical) To remove a gap.
• v. (social) To finish, to terminate.
• v. To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
• v. (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
• n. An end or conclusion.
• n. The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
• n. A grapple in wrestling.
• n. (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
• n. (music) A double bar marking the end.
• adj. (now rare) Closed, shut.
• adj. Narrow; confined.
• adj. At a little distance; near.
• adj. Intimate; well-loved.
• adj. Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
• adj. (Ireland, England, Scotland, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
• adj. (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
• adj. Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
• adj. (obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
• adj. Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
• adj. Short.
• adj. (archaic) Dense; solid; compact.
• adj. (archaic) Concise; to the point.
• adj. (dated) Difficult to obtain.
• adj. (dated) Parsimonious; stingy.
• adj. Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
• adj. Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
• adj. Marked, evident.
• n. (now rare) An enclosed field.
• n. (Britain) A street that ends in a dead end.
• n. (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the…
• n. (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
• n. A cathedral close.
• n. (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed.

close-fitting

• adj. (of clothing) Snug, tight, form-fitting.

closed

• adj. Sealed, made inaccessible or impassable; not open.
• adj. (of a store or business) Not operating or conducting trade.
• adj. Not public.
• adj. (topology, of a set) Having an open complement.
• adj. (mathematics, of a set) Such that its image under the specified operation is contained in it.
• adj. (mathematics, logic, of a formula) Lacking a free variable.
• adj. (graph theory, of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are the same.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of close.

closely

• adv. In a close manner.
• adv. (obsolete) secretly; privately.

cockeyed

• adj. (US) Having both eyes oriented inward.
• adj. (US) Crooked or askew.
• adj. (US, informal) Absurd, silly, or stupid; usually used in reference to ideas rather than people.
• adj. Drunk.

compact

• n. An agreement or contract.
• adj. Closely packed, i.e. packing much in a small space.
• adj. Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
• adj. (mathematics, not comparable, of a set in an Euclidean space) Closed and bounded.
• adj. (topology, not comparable, of a set) Such that every open cover of the given set has a finite subcover.
• adj. Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose.
• adj. (obsolete) Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
• adj. (obsolete) Composed or made; with of.
• n. A small, slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powderpuff; that fits into a woman's…
• n. A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.
• v. (transitive) To make more dense; to compress.
• v. To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.

compressed

• adj. Pressed tightly together.
• adj. Flattened, especially when along its entire length.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of compress.

constricting

• v. present participle of constrict.

crocked

• v. simple past tense and past participle of crock.
• adj. (Britain) injured (of a person).
• adj. (Britain) broken (of a thing).
• adj. (informal, Canada, US) drunk (of a person).

demanding

• adj. Requiring much endurance, strength, or patience.
• v. present participle of demand.

difficult

• adj. Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
• adj. (often of a person, or a horse, etc) Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
• adj. (obsolete) Unable or unwilling.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.

dripless

• adj. nondrip.

drunk

• adj. Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
• adj. Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
• adj. (usually followed by with or on) Elated or emboldened.
• adj. Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
• n. One who is intoxicated with alcohol.
• n. A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
• n. A drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness.
• n. A drunken state.
• v. past participle of drink.
• v. (Southern US) simple past tense of drink.

equal

• adj. (not comparable) The same in all respects.
• adj. (mathematics, not comparable) Exactly identical, having the same value.
• adj. (obsolete) Fair, impartial.
• adj. (comparable) Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.
• adj. (obsolete) Not variable; equable; uniform; even.
• adj. (music) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.
• v. (mathematics) To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.
• v. To be equivalent to; to match.
• v. (informal) To have as its consequence.
• n. A person or thing of equal status to others.
• n. (obsolete) State of being equal; equality.

fast

• adj. (dated) Firmly or securely fixed in place; stable.
• adj. Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
• adj. (of people) Steadfast, with unwavering feeling. (Now only in set phrases like "fast friend".).
• adj. Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid.
• adj. Causing unusual rapidity of play or action.
• adj. (computing, of a piece of hardware) Able to transfer data in a short period of time.
• adj. Deep or sound (of sleep); fast asleep (of people).
• adj. (of dyes or colours) Not running or fading when subjected to detrimental conditions such as wetness or…
• adj. (obsolete) Tenacious; retentive.
• adj. (colloquial) Having an extravagant lifestyle or immoral habits.
• adj. Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
• adj. (of photographic film) More sensitive to light than average.
• adv. In a firm or secure manner, securely; in such a way as not to be moved.
• adv. (of sleeping) Deeply or soundly.
• adv. Immediately following in place or time; close, very near.
• adv. Quickly, with great speed; within a short time.
• adv. Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
• n. (Britain, rail transport) A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination,…
• interj. (archery) Short for "stand fast", a warning not to pass between the arrow and the target.
• v. (intransitive) To restrict one’s personal consumption, generally of food, but sometimes other things,…
• n. The act or practice of abstaining from food or of eating very little food.
• n. The period of time during which one abstains from or eats very little food.

fine

• adj. (heading) Of subjective quality.
• adj. (heading) Of objective quality.
• adj. (cricket) Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
• adj. (obsolete) Subtle; thin; tenuous.
• adv. Expression of (typically) reluctant agreement.
• adv. Well, nicely, in a positive way.
• adv. (dated, dialect, colloquial) Finely; elegantly; delicately.
• adv. (pool, billiards) In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to…
• n. Fine champagne; French brandy.
• n. (usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles.
• v. (transitive) To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
• v. (intransitive) To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
• v. To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
• v. To change by fine gradations.
• v. (transitive) To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).
• n. A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
• v. (transitive) To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
• v. (intransitive) To pay a fine.
• n. (music) The end of a musical composition.
• n. (music) The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To finish; to cease.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to cease; to stop.
• n. (obsolete) End; conclusion; termination; extinction.
• n. A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
• n. (Britain, law) A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission…

fuddled

• v. simple past tense and past participle of fuddle.

hard

• adj. (of material or fluid) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
• adj. (personal or social) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
• adj. Unquestionable.
• adj. (of a road intersection) Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.
• adj. (slang, vulgar, of a male) Sexually aroused.
• adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
• adj. (phonetics, not comparable).
• adj. (art) Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment.
• adj. (not comparable) In the form of a hard copy.
• adv. (manner) With much force or effort.
• adv. (manner) With difficulty.
• adv. (obsolete) So as to raise difficulties.
• adv. (manner) Compactly.
• adv. (now archaic) Near, close.
• n. (countable, nautical) A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water.
• n. (uncountable, drugs, colloquial, slang) crack cocaine.

hermetic

• adj. (chiefly with capital initial) Pertaining to Hermes Trismegistus or the writings attributed to him.
• adj. Pertaining to alchemy or occult practices; magical, alchemical.
• adj. Hermetically sealed.
• adj. Isolated, away from outside influence.
• adj. Misspelling of hermitic.

impermeable

• adj. impossible to permeate.
• adj. not allowing passage, especially of liquids; waterproof.

inebriated

• adj. Behaving as though affected by alcohol including exhilaration, and a dumbed or stupefied manner.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of inebriate.

intoxicated

• adj. Stupefied by alcohol, drunk.
• adj. Stupefied by any chemical substance.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of intoxicate.

invulnerable

• adj. Incapable of being injured; not vulnerable.
• adj. Unanswerable; irrefutable.

leakproof

• adj. Resistant to leaks; hermetic, sound; as of a dry cell battery.

loaded

• v. simple past tense and past participle of load.
• adj. Burdened by some heavy load; packed.
• adj. (of a projectile weapon) Having a live round of ammunition in the chamber; armed.
• adj. (slang) Possessing great wealth.
• adj. (slang) Drunk.
• adj. (baseball) Pertaining to a situation where there is a runner at each of the three bases.
• adj. (dice games, also used figuratively) a die or dice being Weighted asymmetrically, and so biased to produce…
• adj. (of a question) Designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap.
• adj. (of a word or phrase) Having strong connotations that colour the literal meaning and are likely to provoke…
• adj. (of an item offered for sale, especially an automobile) Equipped with numerous options; deluxe.
• adj. (food, colloquial) Covered with a topping or toppings.

mean

• v. To intend.
• v. To convey meaning.
• v. (transitive) To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
• v. (transitive) To result in; to bring about.
• v. (transitive) To be important (to).
• v. (Ireland, Britain regional) To lament.
• adj. (obsolete) Common; general.
• adj. Of a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble.
• adj. Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby.
• adj. Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base.
• adj. Of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
• adj. (chiefly Britain) Ungenerous; stingy, tightfisted; North American English: cheap; formal: niggardly, penurious,…
• adj. Disobliging; pettily offensive or unaccommodating; small.
• adj. Selfish; acting without consideration of others; unkind.
• adj. Causing or intending to cause intentional harm; bearing ill will towards another; cruel; malicious.
• adj. Powerful; fierce; harsh; damaging.
• adj. Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
• adj. (informal, often childish) Difficult, tricky.
• adj. Having the mean (see noun below) as its value.
• adj. (obsolete) Middling; intermediate; moderately good, tolerable.
• n. (now chiefly in the plural) A method or course of action used to achieve some result.
• n. (obsolete, in the singular) An intermediate step or intermediate steps.
• n. Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium.
• n. (music, now historical) The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part…
• n. (statistics) The average of a set of values, calculated by summing them together and dividing by the number…
• n. (mathematics) Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number…
• n. (mathematics) Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and…

mingy

• adj. (colloquial) Mean, miserly, stingy.

miserly

• adj. Like a miser; very covetous; stingy; cautious with money.

nasty

• adj. (now chiefly US) Dirty, filthy.
• adj. Contemptible, unpleasant (of a person).
• adj. Objectionable, unpleasant (of a thing); repellent, offensive.
• adj. Indecent or offensive; obscene, lewd.
• adj. Spiteful, unkind.
• adj. (chiefly Britain) Awkward, difficult to navigate; dangerous.
• adj. (chiefly Britain) Grave or dangerous (of an accident, illness etc.).
• adj. (slang, chiefly US) Formidable, terrific; wicked.
• n. (informal) Something nasty.
• n. (euphemistic, preceded by "the") Sexual intercourse.

pie-eyed

• adj. (slang) Drunk.

pissed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of piss.
• adj. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, colloquial) Drunk.
• adj. (US, Canada, vulgar, colloquial) Annoyed, angry.

pixilated

• adj. behaving in an eccentric manner, as though led by pixies.
• adj. whimsical.
• adj. drunk.

plastered

• adj. Coated with plaster.
• adj. (slang) drunk, intoxicated.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of plaster.

potty

• n. (diminutive) A chamber pot, particularly (children) the pot used when toilet-training children.
• n. (diminutive) Any other device or place for urination or defecation: a toilet; a lavatory; a latrine; an…
• v. (intransitive, childish) Variant of go potty.
• adj. (informal) Insane.
• adj. (golf) Easy to pot the ball on.

rainproof

• adj. (of external clothing) waterproof.
• v. To make rainproof.

rigorous

• adj. Showing, causing, or favoring rigour; scrupulously accurate or strict; thorough.
• adj. Severe; intense.

scarce

• adj. Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.
• adj. Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of.
• adv. (now literary, archaic) Scarcely, only just.

seaworthy

• adj. Fit for service at sea.

secure

• adj. Free from attack or danger; protected.
• adj. Free from the danger of theft; safe.
• adj. Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
• adj. Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
• adj. Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
• adj. Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
• adj. Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly…
• adj. Overconfident; incautious; careless.
• v. To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
• v. To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against…
• v. To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
• v. To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.

shut

• v. (transitive) To close, to stop from being open.
• v. (intransitive) To close, to stop being open.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, chiefly Britain) To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be…
• v. To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
• adj. closed.
• n. The act or time of shutting; close.
• n. A door or cover; a shutter.
• n. The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.
• n. (Britain, Shropshire dialect) A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between…

skin-tight

• adj. Alternative spelling of skintight.

skinny

• adj. (informal) Having little flesh and fat; slim; slender; narrow; thin, generally beyond what looks beautiful.
• adj. (informal, of food or beverages) Low-fat.
• adj. Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).
• n. (colloquial) The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor.
• n. A state of nakedness; nudity.
• n. (informal) A low-fat serving of coffee.
• n. A skinny being.

skintight

• adj. Conforming tightly to the body, snug against the skin.

slopped

• v. simple past tense and past participle of slop.

sloshed

• adj. Very drunk.
• v. simple past tense of slosh.
• v. past participle of slosh.

smashed

• adj. (slang) Drunk.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of smash.

snug

• n. (Britain) A small, comfortable back room in a pub.
• n. (engineering) A lug.
• adj. Comfortable; cosy (cozy); satisfactory.
• adj. Close-fitting.
• adj. Close; concealed; not exposed to notice.
• v. To make secure or snug.
• v. To snuggle or nestle.

soaked

• v. simple past tense and past participle of soak.
• adj. Drenched with water, or other liquid.

soused

• v. simple past tense and past participle of souse.
• adj. (slang) inebriated, drunk.

sozzled

• adj. (Britain, slang) Very drunk.

squiffy

• adj. (Britain) slightly drunk or intoxicated; tipsy.
• adj. Crooked, askew; awry.

stiff

• adj. (of an object) Rigid, hard to bend, inflexible.
• adj. (figuratively, of policies and rules and their application and enforcement) Inflexible; rigid.
• adj. (of a person) Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.
• adj. (colloquial) Harsh, severe.
• adj. (of muscles or parts of the body) Painful as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise.
• adj. Potent.
• adj. Dead, deceased.
• adj. (of a penis) Erect.
• adj. (cooking, of whipping cream or egg whites) Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their…
• adj. (mathematics) Of an equation: for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless…
• n. An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education, often a working stiff…
• n. A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.
• n. (slang) A cadaver, a dead person.
• n. (US) A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.
• n. (blackjack) Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card.
• v. To fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily.
• v. to cheat someone.
• v. to tip ungenerously.

stingy

• adj. Stinging; able to sting.
• adj. Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean.
• adj. Small, scant, meager, insufficient.

stringent

• adj. Strict; binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive; rigid; severe.

taut

• adj. Tight; under tension, as in a rope or bow string.
• adj. Experiencing stress or anxiety.
• adj. Containing only relevant parts, brief and controlled.

tense

• n. (grammar, countable) Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs…
• n. (linguistics, grammar, countable) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.
• n. (linguistics, uncountable) The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of…
• v. (grammar, transitive) To apply a tense to.
• adj. Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
• adj. Pulled taut, without any slack.
• v. To make or become tense.

tiddley

• interj. Alternative form of diddly (a trill sound).

tiddly

• n. (slang) An alcoholic beverage.
• adj. drunk.
• adj. (colloquial) tiny; little.
• interj. Alternative form of diddly (a trill sound).

tight

• adj. Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
• adj. (of a space, design or arrangement) Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass…
• adj. Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
• adj. (slang) Intoxicated; drunk or acting like being drunk.
• adj. (slang) Extraordinarily great or special.
• adj. (slang, British (regional)) Mean; unfair; unkind.
• adj. (obsolete) Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy.
• adj. (obsolete) Handy; adroit; brisk.
• adj. (poker) Of a player, who plays very few hands.
• adj. (poker) Using a strategy which involves playing very few hands.
• adv. Firmly, so as not to come loose easily.
• adv. Soundly.
• v. (obsolete) To tighten.

tight-fitting

• adj. (of clothing) Snug, skintight.

tipsy

• adj. slightly drunk, fuddled, staggering, foolish as a result of drinking alcoholic beverages.
• adj. (metonymically) unsteady, askew.

ungenerous

• adj. Not generous; stingy.

viselike

• adj. Extremely strong or tight, like the grip of a vise.

waterproof

• adj. Unaffected by water.
• adj. Made of or covered with material that doesn't allow water in.
• adj. (figuratively) Incapable of failing; unassailable.
• v. To make waterproof or water-resistant.
• n. A substance or preparation for rendering cloth, leather, etc., impervious to water.
• n. Cloth made waterproof, or any article made of such cloth, or of other waterproof material, as rubber;…

waterproofed

• adj. Having been made waterproof.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of waterproof.

watertight

• adj. So tightly made that water cannot enter or escape.
• adj. So devised or planned as to be impossible to defeat, evade or nullify.

wet

• adj. Of an object, etc, covered with or impregnated with liquid.
• adj. Of weather or a time period, rainy.
• adj. Made up of liquid or moisture.
• adj. (Britain, informal) Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.
• adj. (slang, of a woman) sexually aroused.
• adj. (slang, of a person) Inexperienced in a task or profession; having the characteristics of a rookie.
• adj. (of a scientist or laboratory) Working with chemical or biological matter.
• adj. (chemistry) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
• adj. Permitting alcoholic beverages, as during Prohibition.
• adj. (fountain pens and calligraphy) Depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
• adj. (slang, archaic) Refreshed with liquor; drunk.
• adj. (of a burrito, sandwich, etc.) Covered in a sauce.
• n. Liquid or moisture.
• n. Rainy weather.
• n. (Australia) Rainy season. (often capitalized).
• n. (Britain, pejorative) A moderate Conservative.
• n. (colloquial) An alcoholic drink.
• n. (US, colloquial) One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.
• v. (transitive) To cover or impregnate with liquid.
• v. (transitive) To accidentally urinate in or on.
• v. (intransitive) To make or become wet.
• v. (transitive, soldering) To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.
• v. Misspelling of whet.