tight

Meanings

Adjective

• Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
• Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
• Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
• Intoxicated; drunk or acting like being drunk.
• Extraordinarily great or special.
• Mean; unfair; unkind.
• Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy.
• Handy; adroit; brisk.
• Of a player, who plays very few hands.
• Using a strategy which involves playing very few hands.
• Intimate, close, close-knit.

Adverb

• Firmly, so as not to come loose easily.
• Soundly.

Verb

• To tighten.

Related

Similar words

• close, close-knit, intimate
• fast, firmly, securely
• soundly, well

Opposite words

• slack, slapdash, sloppy
• loosely
• badly, fitfully

Origin

• From Middle English tight, tyght, tyȝt, tiht, variants of thight, thiht, from Old English *þiht, *þīht (attested in meteþiht), from Proto-West Germanic *þį̄ht(ī), from Proto-Germanic *þinhtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *tenkt-, from Proto-Indo-European *ten-. Cognate with Scots ticht, West Frisian ticht, Danish tæt, Icelandic þéttur, Norwegian tett, Swedish tät, Dutch dicht, German dicht.