Word Meanings - TIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

p. p. of Tie. Spenser.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TIGHT)

• Narrow
• Straight
• straightened
• slender
• thin
• spare
• contracted
• limited
• cramped
• pinched
• scant
• close
• scrutinizing
• near
• bigoted
• niggardly
• tight
• Tidy
• Neat
• orderly
• spruce
• clean
• cleanly

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TIGHT)

• Open
• initiate
• conduct
• protract
• Spend
• squander
• waste
• lavish
• scatter
• expend
• pour
• indulge
• vent

Related words: (words related to TIGHT)

• CRAMP
  A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron. (more info) Dan. krampe, G. krampf , Icel. krappr strait, 1. That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shakle; a hindrance.
• STRAIGHT-JOINT
  Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring
• PINCHBECK
  An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap jewelry.
• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• CLEAN-CUT
  See CLEAR-CUT
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• LAVISHNESS
  The quality or state of being lavish.
• TIGHTENER
  That which tightens; specifically , a tightening pulley.
• STRAIGHT-OUT
  Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing. Straight-out and generous indignation. Mrs. Stowe.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• CLEANNESS
  1. The state or quality of being clean. 2. Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses. Chaucer.
• SPENDTHRIFT
  One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• BIGOTEDLY
  In the manner of a bigot.
• LAVISHER
  One who lavishes.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• SPENDER
  One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• WINDTIGHT
  So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind. Bp. Hall.
• WATER-TIGHT
  So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• CORUSCANT
  Glittering in flashes; flashing. Howell.