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  1. tight
    [tīt]
    adjective
    tight (adjective)
    tighter (comparative adjective)
    tightest (superlative adjective)
    1. fixed, fastened, or closed firmly; hard to move, undo, or open:
      "she twisted her handkerchief into a tight knot"
      Similar:
      compact
      compacted
      compressed
      dense
      hard
      unyielding
      solid
      • (of a rope, fabric, or surface) stretched so as to leave no slack; not loose:
        "the drawcord pulls tight"
        Similar:
        taut
        rigid
        stiff
        tense
        stretched
        strained
        stressed
        • (of an area or space) having or allowing little room for maneuver:
          "a tight parking spot"
          "it was a tight squeeze in the tiny vestibule"
          Similar:
          small
          tiny
          narrow
          compact
          poky
          limited
          restricted
          • (of a formation or a group of people or things) closely or densely packed together:
            "he levered the bishop out from a tight knot of clerical wives"
            adverb
            tight (adverb)
            1. very firmly, closely, or tensely:
              "he went downstairs, holding tight to the banisters"
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              adjective
              tīt
              Tone

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              Middle English (in the sense ‘healthy, vigorous’, later ‘firm, solid’): probably an alteration of thight ‘firm, solid’, later ‘close-packed, dense’, of Germanic origin; related to German dicht ‘dense, close’.
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