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tight

adjective
  1. Persistently holding to something: clinging, fast, firm 1, secure, tenacious. See free, tighten
  2. Stretched tightly: stiff, taut, tense. See tighten
  3. Having all parts near to each other: close, compact 1, crowded, dense, packed, thick. See tighten
  4. Based on good judgment, reasoning, or evidence: cogent, just, solid, sound 2, valid, well-founded, well-grounded. See good, reason
  5. Characterized by an economy of artistic expression: lean 2, spare. See style
  6. Affording little room for movement: close, confining, cramped, crowded, narrow, snug. See tighten
  7. Slang. Very closely associated: chummy, close, familiar, friendly, intimate 1. Informal: thick. Idiom: hand in glove with. See love
  8. Ungenerously or pettily reluctant to spend money: cheap, close, close-fisted, costive, hard-fisted, mean 2, miserly, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, petty, pinching, stingy, tightfisted. See give
  9. Hard to deal with or get out of: rough, tricky. Informal: sticky. See easy
  10. Nearly equivalent or even: close, neck and neck, nip and tuck. See near
  11. Chiefly British. In good order or clean condition: neat, orderly, shipshape, snug, spick-and-span, spruce, taut, tidy, trig, trim, well-groomed. Idiom: neat as a pin. See clean, order
  12. Slang. Stupefied, excited, or muddled with alcoholic liquor: besotted, crapulent, crapulous, drunk, drunken, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, sodden, tipsy. Informal: cockeyed, stewed. Slang: blind, bombed, boozed, boozy, crocked, high, lit (up), loaded, looped, pickled, pixilated, plastered, potted, sloshed, smashed, soused, stinking, stinko, stoned, zonked. Idioms: drunk as a skunk, half-seas over, high as a kite, in one's cups, three sheets in (or to) the wind. See drugs
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