Tight

Definition: Tight

Tight

Adjective

1. Closely constrained or constricted or constricting; "tight skirts"; "he hated tight starched collars"; "fingers closed in a tight fist"; "a tight feeling in his chest".

2. Pulled or drawn tight; "taut sails"; "a tight drumhead"; "a tight rope".

3. Set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration; "in tight formation"; "a tight blockade".

4. Pressed tightly together; "with lips compressed".

5. Used of persons or behavior; characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly tip".

6. (economics) affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow; "tight money"; "a tight market".

7. Of such close construction as to be impermeable; "a tight roof"; "warm in our tight little house".

8. Of textiles; "a close weave"; "smooth percale with a very tight weave".

9. Securely or solidly fixed in place; rigid; "the bolts are tight".

10. : (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched; "a close contest"; "a close election"; "a tight game".

11. : slang for `drunk'.

12. : exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent; "a nasty problem"; "a good man to have on your side in a tight situation".

13. : demanding strict attention to rules and procedures; "rigorous discipline"; "tight security"; "stringent safety measures".

14. : packed closely together; "the stood in a tight little group"; "hair in tight curls"; "the pub was packed tight".

Adverb

1. Firmly or tightly; "held fast to the rope"; "her foot was stuck fast"; "held tight".

2. In an attentive manner; "he remained close on his guard".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tight" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Note: Tight \Tight\, adjective. [Comparative Tighter; superlative Tightest.]. (references)

Mining

Multilingual Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Tight

Beauty

Goodly, dapper, tight, jimp; gimp; janty, jaunty; trig, natty, quaint, trim, tidy,neat, spruce, smart, tricksy.

Closure

Unventilated; air tight, water tight; hermetically sealed; tight, snug.

Drunkenness

Adjective: drunk, tipsy; intoxicated; inebrious, inebriate, inebriated; in one's cups; in a state of intoxication;Noun: temulent, temulentive; bombed, smashed; fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou, fresh, merry, elevated; flustered, disguised, groggy, beery; top-heavy; potvaliant, glorious; potulent; squiffy; overcome, overtaken; whittled, screwed, tight, primed, corned, raddled, sewed up, lushy, nappy, muddled, muzzy, obfuscated, maudlin; crapulous, dead drunk.

Dryness

Water proof, water tight.

Junction

Firm, fast, close, tight, taut, taught, secure, set, intervolved ; inseparable, indissoluble, insecable, severable.

Parsimony

Adjective: parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, close; fast handed, close handed, strait handed; close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted; tight, sparing; chary; grudging, griping; Verb: illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious.

Pride

On one's dignity, on one's high horses,on one's tight ropes, on one's high ropes; on stilts; en grand seigneur.

Restraint

Keep under; repress, suppress; smother; pull in, rein in; hold, hold fast; keep a tight hand on; prohibit; inhibit, cohibit.

Retention

Verb: retain, keep; hold fast one's own, hold tight one's own, hold fast one's ground, hold tight one's ground; clinch, clench, clutch, grasp, gripe, hug, have a firm hold of.

Severity

Assume, usurp, arrogate, take liberties; domineer, bully; tyrannize, inflict, wreak, stretch a point, put on the screw; be hard upon; bear a heavy hand on, lay a heavy hand on; be down upon, come down upon; ill treat; deal hardly with, deal hard measure to; rule with a rod of iron, chastise with scorpions; dye with blood; oppress, override; trample under foot; tread under foot, tread upon, trample upon, tread down upon, trample down upon; crush under an iron heel, ride roughshod over; rivet the yoke; hold a tight hand, keep a tight hand; force down the throat; coerce; give no quarter; (pitiless) a.

Arbitrary power; absolutism, despotism; dictatorship, autocracy, tyranny, domineering, oppression; assumption, usurpation; inquisition, reign of terror, martial law; iron heel, iron rule, iron hand, iron sway; tight grasp; brute force, brute strength; coercion; strong hand, tight hand.

Adverb: severely; Adjective: with a high hand, with a strong hand, with a tight hand, with a heavy hand.

Crosswords: Tight

Tight little package affirmative (There's Something About Mary; writing credit: Ed Decter; John J. Strauss)

Hang in tight. You've got to come back (Episode IV: A New Hope; writing credit: George Lucas.)

It's too tight. (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

First Class, I like this, this is tight. (Rush Hour; writing credit: Jim Kouf)

It don't fit you, Mae, it's too tight. (A League of Their Own; writing credit: Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel)

I-I held you, held you tight (performing artist: unknown)

Your game so tight, you got me feenin' (I Do (Wanna Get Close To You); performing artist: 3LW)

Can't make it tight (I Don't Wanna; performing artist: Aaliyah)

You know you're right just to hold her tight (When Smokey Sings; performing artist: ABC)

Did you just stay home and cling tight to your family, (Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning); performing artist: Alan Jackson)

Tight slacks (references; author: unknown)

Up Tight! (1968)

Tight Spot (1955)

Hold Me Tight (1933)

A Tight Corner (1932)

Sit Tight (1931)

Hold Tight (Sea Food) (performing artist: The Andrews Sisters)

Hold Me Tight (performing artist: Johnny Nash)

Hold You Tight (performing artist: Tara Kemp)

Jam Up and Jelly Tight (performing artist: Tommy Roe)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Skin Tight (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Black Tight Killer (reference)

• Kresics Tight 'n' Easy Workout (reference)

• QuickFix Tight Abs Workout (reference)

• Tight & Toned (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Game Tight (reference)

• Tight (Single) [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

There are 2 grey wooden crates filled with and surrounded by broccoli, peppers, grapefruits and oranges in a tight frame. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

An overflowing grocery bag spills out. Broccoli, pears, red kidney beans, peppers and tomatoes are on a wooden table in a tight shot. See artwork: PV-44. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

"A tight squeeze" - using trucks on a primary triangulation party Triangulation party of E. W. Eickelberg. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Camp at the end of the line - Carl Aslakson ran a tight ship Triangulation from Louisiana to the Canadian border in 1934 Triangulation party of Carl I. Aslakson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Purse seining. Salmon swimming near the surface are surrounded with a wall of netting, which is supported by floats. Lines are then drawn tight in the lower surface of the net to "purse" it into a baglike shape. The fish are then bailed out of the net. F&WL C-1163. Credit: Fisheries.

Menhaden fishing - drawing net tight for pumping fish aboard the mother vessel. Credit: Fisheries.

U.S. Marines advance after Marine close-air fighters plaster targets ahead during fighting in Korea. Billowing smoke and flames from the small, tight target areas bear out the accuracy of the flying Leathernecks' marksmanship. (Marine Corps photo).

Steams through a tight turn in Elliot Bay, Washington, 30 July 1943, following battle damage repairs and overhaul at the Puget Sound Navy Yard. Credit: NAVY.

Experiments on the tight rope. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sitting tight. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

After what it had calculated to ten significant decimal places as being the precise length of pause most likely to convey a general contempt for all things mattressy, the robot continued to walk round in tight circles

Winfield snorted and pinched his mouth tight.

The meaner sort are covered with mats which they make of a kind of bulrush, and are also indifferently tight and warm, but not so good as the former

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Avoid wearing tight clothing around your waist. (references)

The pressure must be tight on both sides to be effective. (references)

The sphincters keep the urethra closed by squeezing like tight rubber bands. (references)

Business

It is tight budgets which makes competition quite fierce. (references)

It is their tight budget which makes competition quite fierce. (references)

It is important to note that not all Czechs travel on a tight budget. (references)

Civil Liberties

China

Regulations restricting Muslims' religious activity, teaching, and places of worship continued to be tight in Xinjiang. (references)

Oman

Tight control over the entry of foreigners into the country effectively has limited refugees and prospective asylum seekers from entering. (references)

Lebanon

The resettlement process is slowed by tight budgetary constraints, destroyed infrastructure, political feuds, a lack of schools and economic opportunities, and the fear that physical security still is inadequate in some parts of the country. (references)

Economic History

Mexico

The competition in prices is still very tight in the retail channel. (references)

Netherlands

Tight labor market conditions make an increase of close to four percent more likely. (references)

North Korea

Its leadership seems determined to maintain tight political and ideological control. (references)

Human Rights

Pakistan

The shackles used are tight, heavy, and painful, and reportedly have led to gangrene and amputation in several cases. (references)

Canada

On December 6, the Supreme Court placed tight controls over police strip searches in a ruling prompted by a 1997 Toronto case, in which the victim was bent over a table and forcibly strip searched in a fast food restaurant. (references)

Minorities

China

Authorities maintained tight control over "separatist activities," announced tightened security measures, and mounted campaigns to crack down on opposition during the year. (references)

Political Economy

Denmark

Party discipline, as a consequence, is very tight. (references)

JAMAICA

The budget continues to target inflation through a tight fiscal policy. (references)

PAKISTAN

The SBP has used a policy of tight domestic credit to limit depreciation of the rupee. (references)

Political Rights

China

A number of small "democratic" parties that date from before the Communist takeover in 1949 play a minor consultative role and must pledge their allegiance to the CCP. The CCP retains a tight rein on political decision-making and forbids the creation of new political parties. (references)

Trade

Senegal

The monetary policy of the BCEAO is extremely tight. (references)

Romania

The effect of the NBR's tight monetary policy on small and medium-sized enterprises was severe. (references)

Travel

Sri Lanka

The U.S. Government maintains tight security procedures regarding travel of U.S. Government employees, officials, and dependents to those areas. (references)

El Salvador

Breakfast meetings are common and begin about 7:30 a.m. Lunches and dinners can become lengthy affairs (2-3 hours), so do not plan too tight a schedule around them. (references)

Eq. Guinea

Hotel space in mid 2001 was extremely tight, and hotels routinely did not honor reservations; advance booking was essential with regular follow-up to ensure the reservation was being maintained. (references)

Women

Russia

Many women are deterred from reporting such crimes, not only because of social and family pressure, but also because the tight housing market makes it difficult either to find housing outside the family dwelling or to expel an abusive spouse, even after a final divorce action. (references)

Worker Rights

China

Freedom of Religion The Government maintains tight controls on religious practices and places of worship. (references)

India

Central unions have stressed their independence and in some cases are attempting to sever previously tight party control. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

That keeps tight

Expressions using "tight": a tight squeeze ♦ as tight as a drum ♦ as tight as herrings in a barrel ♦ be a tight fit ♦ be as tight as a drum ♦ be in a tight corner ♦ be in a tight place ♦ be stretched tight ♦ be tight ♦ be too tight ♦ bind smb. tight ♦ close up tight ♦ compressed tight ♦ corn caused by a tight shoe ♦ feel tight ♦ gas tight ♦ hold tight ♦ holding tight ♦ in a tight corner ♦ keep a tight hand ♦ keep a tight rein on ♦ keep a tight rein on smb. ♦ make tight ♦ make too tight ♦ pull tight ♦ screw down tight ♦ screwed tight ♦ shut tight ♦ sit tight ♦ squeeze tight ♦ stretch tight ♦ stretched tight ♦ tight bun ♦ tight bushing ♦ tight corner ♦ tight dancer ♦ tight draw ♦ tight end ♦ tight fit ♦ tight hand ♦ Tight Junctions ♦ tight knot ♦ tight laced ♦ tight lipped ♦ tight loop ♦ tight monetary policy ♦ tight money ♦ tight passage ♦ tight profit margins ♦ tight purse ♦ tight schedule ♦ tight spot ♦ tight squeeze ♦ very tight ♦ very tight schedule ♦ water tight ♦ weapons tight ♦ with a tight hand. Additional references.

Beginning with "tight": tight-arsed, tight-arses, tight-ass, tight-assed, tight-bended, tight-buffered, tight-capped, tight-centre, tight-closed, tight-coiled, tight-coupling, tight-covered, tight-cropped, tight-drawn, tight-eyed, tight-faced, tight-fist, tight-fisted, tight-fitted, tight-fitting, tight-formed, tight-grained, tight-head, tight-held, tight-jawed, tight-knit, tight-laced, tight-lipped, tight-lips, tight-little, tight-loose, tight-money, tight-mouthed, tight-packed, tight-radius, tight-reined, tight-rope, tight-rope dancer, tight-ropes, tight-sands, tight-sealing, tight-shut, tight-skirted, tight-smooth, tight-trousered, tight-wad, tight-waisted, tight-white-collar.

Ending with "tight": too-tight, water-tight, weather-tight.

Containing "tight": air-tight container, stick-tight flea.

Albanian

i tendosur (ding-dong, drawn tightly, stiff, strained, stretched, taut, tense), i shtrënguar (grasped, incapacious, recapitulatory, reduced, tabloid), i paklueshëm, i padepërtueshëm (impenetrable, impermeable, inscrutable, opaque, unfathomable, unpenetrable), i ngushtë (acute, bigheaded, close, close-grained, hard up, incapacious, intimate, narrow, narrow minded, near, one track, one-ideaed, particularistic, petty, poky, provincial, small, small minded, Strait), fort (aloud, deeply, greatly, hard, loud, strong, strongly, tightly, too, very, very much, violently, well), dorështrënguar (avaricious, careful, close-fisted, grasping, large handed, mean, mingy, miserly, muckworm, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, rapacious, saving, scrimp, skinflint, snippy, tight-fisted). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قوي (able bodied, acute, athletic, brawny, burly, forceful, forcible, full-bodied, furious, generous, hardy, hearty, heavy duty, husky, incorrodible, intense, intensive, keen, lively, lusty, manly, mighty, muscular, pithy, potent, powered, powerful, precious, pronounced, reliable, robust, rude, sledge hammer, spanking, staunch, stern, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, telling, tough, trig, vehement, vigorous, violent, virtuous, vivid, youthful), ‏بخيل (avaricious, cheeseparing, mean, miserly, shy, skimpy, skinflint, spare, sparing, stingy, tight-fisted), ‏ثمل (besotted, blind drunk, boozer, boozing, boozy, drunk, drunken, high, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, intoxication, lush, maudlin, pickled, plastered, rummy, screwed, screwed up, smashed, sottish, stewed, stoned, take to drink, tanked, tipsy, well oiled), ‏أنيق (bijou, chic, classy, coxcomb, dainty, dapper, dashing, dinky, dressy, elegant, exclusive, fine, gallant, genteel, good looking, gracious, jaunty, ladylike, mincing, natty, neat, nice, perky, personable, posh, presentable, rich, saucy, seemly, sharp, smart, smug, sophisticated, spick and span, sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty, spruce, stylish, suave, swagger, swell, tailor made, taut, tidy, trim, well groomed), ‏صارم (astringent, austere, disciplinary, dour, driving, exact, extreme, fast, firm, hard, hard and fast, hardheaded, inclement, puritan, ramrod, rigid, rigorous, rugged, searching, severe, sharp, stark, stern, stiff, strait, strict, stringent, swingeing, tough, unrelenting, violent), ‏صيق جدا, ‏ضيق (bottleneck, canyon, choke, close, contract, cramped, hardship, incommodious, malaise, narrow, narrowness, need, oppression, parochial, pinch, scrimpy, shrink, slit, straiten, straits, strict, succinctness, tag, tighten, tightness), ‏باحكام (closely, nicely), ‏وعر (broken, bumpy, hairy, impassable, irregular, jolty, lumpy, malaise, mountainous, precipitous, ragged, rough, rugged, sharp, steep), ضيق (limited, narrow, worry), ‏قوي جدا, ‏نادر (anecdotic, close, exceptional, exceptive, few and far between, infrequent, out of the ordinary, phenomenal, rare, recherche, scarce, uncommon, unusual), ‏مشدود (taut, tense), ‏متراص (close, compact), ‏محشو (filled, loaded, packed, padded, stuffed), ‏محكم (airtight, coherent, compact, fast, firm, hermetic, impermeable, impervious, precise, secure, solid, strong, well knit), ‏محكم الاغلاق (sealed), ‏وثيق (solid, tightly bound). (various references)

Basque

hestu (narrow, strait). (various references)

Bulgarian 

оскъден (beggarly, exiguous, insufficient, jejune, lean, meager, meagre, penurious, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, short, skimpy, skinny, spare, sparing, starveling, stingy, thin), изопнат (extended, overwrought), пиян (cockeyed, drunk, drunken, incapable, inebriate, intoxicated, jagged, juiced, lit, loaded, pickled, pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, queer, ripe, screwed, screwy, shot, slaughtered, soused, stoned, tanked, under the table, wet), подреден (in good order, neat, orderly, prim, tidy, trim, well arranged), претъпкан (cram full, crowded, overcrowded, packed, replete), здраво (closely, fast, firm, firmly, fixedly, sound, soundly, stably, with vigor, with vigour), мъчен (awkward, difficult, formidable, hairy, ill, rum, rummy, stiff, tough, trying), напрегнат (breathless, exacting, excited, intense, intent, laborious, nervy, overstrung, overwrought, strenuous, taut, tense, uncool, uphill), натъпкан (chock full, choke-full, crowded, gorged, packed, stodgy), непромокаем (damp proof, impermeable, impervious, rainproof, rain-tight, stanch, staunch, waterproof, watertight), непроницаем (impenetrable, impermeable, impervious, proof, thick, unfathomable, unpenetrable), дефицитен (in short supply, scarce), обтегнат (strained, stretched, tense), стегнато (fast, tensely, tightly), тежък (cumbrous, dense, difficult, distressing, faint, grave, grievous, grinding, hammering, hard, heavy, hefty, high, hulking, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lumping, lumpish, lumpy, massive, massy, muggy, onerous, painful, plodding, ponderous, robust, rugged, sad, severe, shrewd, sledgehammer, slow, smart, smashing, soggy, solemn, sore, stiff, stodgy, taxing, thorny, tough, traumatic, trying, unwieldy, uphill, weighty), тесен (choky, close, cramped, incommodious, jimp, narrow, parochial, pokey, scrimpy, skimpy, strict, tight-fitted), труден (arduous, awkward, complex, difficile, difficult, dodgy, formidable, heavy, knotty, laborious, lively, painful, perplexed, perplexing, pick-and-shovel, rocky, sore, spiny, stroppy, taxing, thorny, ticklish, tough, tricky, troublesome, uphill, warm), тясно (closely, intimately, nearly), спретнат (dapper, dinky, prim, rakish, sailorly, smart, smug, snug, tidy, tricksy, trig, trim, well groomed), сбит (agglomerate, brief, compact, compendious, concise, epigrammatic, firm, lapidary, open, serried, succinct, summary, terse, thick), свидлив (avaricious, churlish, close-fisted, costive, hardfisted, illiberal, miserly, narrow, parsimonious, saving, skinny, tight-fisted, ungenerous), уютен (cosy, cozy, homelike, homely, snug), стиснат (cheeseparing, close, close-fisted, curmudgeonly, mean, mingy, near, penurious, sparing, squeezed, tight-fisted), стегнат (close-textured, compact, concise, crisp, firm, natty, neat, rakish, sailorly, serried, sinewy, soldierlike, soldierly, spiffing, spiffy, taut, tidy, tricksy, trig, trim, well groomed), опънат (corded, strained, taut, unbending). (various references)

Chinese 

緊 (line, nervous, strict, string, thread, wire), 瘦 (lean, thin), 紧紧 (tightly, tightness), 嚴竣 (difficult, severe, stern, strict), 嚴格 (strict, stringent), 嚴密 (strict), 嚴 (serious, severe, stern, strict). (various references)

Czech

tìsný (bare, close, near, pokey, Strait), pevnì utažený, přiléhavý (close fitting, skintight), omezený (circumscribed, dozy, fool, insular, limitative, limited, narrow, obtuse, restricted, scanty, thickheaded), napjatý (explosive, inflammable, taut, tense, tonic, uptight), nadrátovaný (stoned), malý (faint, little, minor, pokey, remote, scant, short, slender, small, stingy, tiny, young), úzký (close, cramped, narrow, thin), úhledný (neat, sightly, slick, tidy). (various references)

Danish

uimodtageligt (impermeable, impervious). (various references)

Dutch

streng (rigorous, rigourous, severe, strict, strictly, stringent), stipt (accurate, on time, precise, prompt, punctual), nauwsluitend, nauw (close, cramped, narrow, strait). (various references)

Esperanto

strikta. (various references)

Faeroese

trongur, strangur (rigourous, severe, strict, stringent), harður (cruel, hard, rigourous, severe, strict, stringent). (various references)

Farsi 

محکم (Buff, Firm, Meaty, Secure, Stable, Steady, Steel, Stout, Strict, Strong, Sturdy, Substantial, Tenacious, Tough), مانع دخول هوایااب یاچیزدیگر, کیپ , کساد (Inactive, Insensitive, Off, Slack, Sluggish, Stagnant), سفت (Astringent, Callous, Concrete, Fast, Hard, Inelastic, Ironclad, Stark, Stiff, Taut, Tenacious, Tense, Thick, Tough, Wiry), خسیس (Hard, Hidebound, Miserly, Penurious, Scotchman, Scrimpy, Skimpy, Skinflint, Sordid, Stingy, Stringent, Ungenerous). (various references)

Finnish

tiukka (close, hard, keen, severe, strict, tightly woven), tiivis (compact, dense, tightly woven, water-tight), tiiviisti (close), piukka (taut), päihtynyt (drunk, intoxicated, tipsy), kireä (strict, taut, tense), ahdas (cramped, limited, narrow, strait). (various references)

French

strict. (various references)

German

fest (abiding, attached, banquet, buoyant, buoyantly, carnival, celebration, closely, compact, consistent, constant, continual, continuous, crisp, definite, faithfully, fast, feast, festival, festivity, fete, fexed, firm, firmly, fix, fixated, fixed, gaiety, hard, heavy, immovable, ingrained, junket, lasting, moored, non-varying, party, permanent, permanently, proof, regular, robust, safely, secure, securely, set, settled, solid, solidly, sound, squarely, stable, steadfast, steadily, steady, stiff, stout, stoutly, strong, sturdy, sustained, tighten, tightly, tough, unfaltering, unhesitating, unshrinking, unwavering, unwaveringly), dicht (close, closely, compact, concentrated, consistent, dense, densely, densly, heavy, leakproof, murky, serried, shut, solid, thick, thickly, thickset, tightly), stramm (erect, firm, hard, hefty, martial, packed, solid, stalwart, staunch, strapping, strenuous, sturdy, taut, tautly, tough, upright), straff (close fitting, erect, firm, strict, taut, tautly, tensely, tighten), knapp (almost, bald, bare, barely, barely sufficient, close, concise, concisely, crisp, curtly, just, just enough, laconic, laconically, lean, low, meager, meagre, narrow, pithy, rare, scantily, scantly, scanty, scarce, scarcely, scrimpy, short, skimpily, skimpy, slender, stinted, summarily, taut, tautly, terse, tersely, tightly), eng (close, close fitting, closely, confined, cramped, intimate, limited, narrow, narrowly, poky, reduced, restricted, snug, straitened, tightly). (various references)

Greek 

σφικτόσ, σφιγκτόσ, σφιχτόσ (firm, hidebound, tenacious), σφιχτός, στενός (intimate, narrow), μεθυσμένοσ (drunk, drunken, groggy, inebriate, intoxicated, plastered, soused), αδιάβροχο (gabardine, oilskin, raincoat, tarpaulin), τέζα, τεντωμένοσ (outstretched, tense). (various references)

Hebrew 

מתוח (extending, jumpy, strained, stretched, stretching, strung, taut, tense, tension, tenterhooks, tightening), מהודק (airtight), קמצני (mean, miserly, parsimonious, scrimpy, skimpy, tightfisted), הדוק (constriction, drawing close, fast, fastening, tightening, tightly bound), דחוק (hard up, narrow, scarce, strained), דחוס (compact, compressed, compression, crowded, dense, pressed, thick), צמוד (adnation, attached, close, close fitting, coupling, fastened, linked, linking, matching, pairing, snug, tie in, tied in). (various references)

Hungarian

tömör (brief, close, compendious, concise, consistent, consistent with, laconic, pithy, quintessential, sententious, short, solid, succinct, terse). (various references)

Indonesian

terganjal (firmly wedged), sempit (muggy, pokey, poky), ketat, kencang (quick, strained, tightened), erat (close, firm, taut), ciut (shriveled, shrunk). (various references)

Italian

teso (aimed, drawn, strained, stressed, stretched, taut, tense, tighten, wound-up), scarso (failing, jejune, low, meager, meagre, penurious, poor, scant, scantily, scanty, scarce, skimpily, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, sparse, thin, weak). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

窮屈 (constrained, formal, narrow, rigid, stiff, uneasy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎゅっと (hard), きつい (close, intense), きゅうくつ (constrained, formal, narrow, rigid, stiff, uneasy), タイト . (various references)

Korean 

단단히. (various references)

Malay

erat. (various references)

Manx

peajeogagh (cheese-paring, close-fisted, miserly, near, near with money, parsimonious, pinching, tight-fisted), neughiastyllagh (careful with money, illiberal). (various references)

Occitan

estrech (narrow, strait). (various references)

Pig Latin

ighttay.(various references)

Portuguese

impermeável (burberry, damp proof, impenetrable, macintosh, mackintosh, raincoat, rainproof, raintight, repellent, slicker, unsavory, unsavoury, waterproof). (various references)

Romanian

tãmâiat (boozy, fuddled, incensed), ferm (decidedly, firm, fixed, hard, hard bitten, inflexible, resistant, resolute, resolved, set, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, sturdy, unbending, unfaltering, unflinching, unshaken, unswerving, unwavering, unyielding), beat (befuddled, boozy, cock eyed, drunk, drunken, elevated, groggy, in drink, in one's cups, in wine, inebriate, intoxicated, muzzy, on the fuddle, pickled, pie-eyed, queer, screwed, sottish, squiffed, tipsy), bine ajustat, bine legat (well knit), compact (close, compact, compactly, dense, densely, firm, indiscrete, massive, serried, solid, stiff), cu fermitate (firmly), dens (Cloggy, close, compact, dense, densely, gross, stiff, thick), îngust (illiberal, little, local, low-minded, narrow, narrow minded, parochial, parochially, purblind, slender, slim, thin), etanş (watertight, water-tight), zgârcit (accumulator, avaricious, cheese paring, churlish, clenched, close, close-fisted, close-handed, costive, covetous, curmudgeon, grasping, hunks, illiberal, iron-fisted, mean, miser, miserly, money grubber, muckworm, parsimonious, penny father, penny-wise, penurious, screw, skimpy, skin, skinflint, sparing, stingy), greu de obţinut, impermeabil (damp proof, impermeable, impervious, imperviously, Mackintosh, raincoat, rainproof, repellent, water proof, waterproof), sârmã sau cablu întins, strâmt (narrow, small), strâns (clinging, close, close fitting, closely, conglomerate, crammed, cramped, fast, gathering, in, pressed, serried), voinic (bulky, burly, chopping, hale and hearty, Hardy, healthy, hefty, hero, husky, mite, muscular, nervy, powerful, stout, strapping, sturdy, upstanding, vigorous), ermetic (air proof, air-tight, hermetic, hermetically, watertight). (various references)

Russian 

плотный (burly, close, compact, dense, hard, massive, solid, thick, tough). (various references)

Scottish

teann (begin; come nigh : teannadh ri, fall to, fixed, miserly, narrow, rigid, strait, tense), dlùth (close, close; confined, nigh, the warp of a web, warp of a web). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tesan (cheek by jowl, close, cramped, narrow, strait), zategnut (strained, taut, tense), oskudan (barren, deficient, destitute, exiguous, meager, meagre, necessitous, needy, penurious, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, short, shy, skimpy, spare, sparing, stingy, stringent), opasan (adventurous, breakneck, dangerous, girded, hazardous, parlous, perilous, pernicious, treacherous, ugly, uncanny, unsafe, venturous, vicious), neprobojan (bulletproof, impenetrable, impermeable, proof, unpenetrable), bedro (haunch, hip), čvrst (firm, hard, hard and fast, solid, sound, stalwart, staunch, steadfast, steady, strong, sturdy, tenacious, trim, unwavering, wiry), škrt (avaricious, chary, close-fisted, grudging, hardfisted, mean, miser, miserly, parsimonious, penurious, scanty, scotch, scrimp, scrimpy, skimpy, stingy, tightfisted, tight-fisted). (various references)

Spanish

apretado (clasped, constrained, crabbed, cramped, jammed, pressed, serried, tighten), tirante (binder, brace, bridle, gunning, nail biting, shoulder strap, straining, strap, stringent, taut, tense, tie, tighten, trace), impermeable (impermeable, impervious, Mac, Mackintosh, raincoat, rainproof, raintight, showerproof, slicker, vatertight, waterproof, watertight), hermético (air proof, airtight, hermetic, tight lipped). (various references)

Swedish

trång (close, cramped, crowded, incapacious, incommodious, narrow, poky, skimpy), stram (austere, severe, stiff, taut, tense), snäv (curt, narrow), asfull (blotto, canned, pissed, smashed, stinking), åtsittande (skintight, snug). (various references)

Thai

แน่นหนา, เข้มงวด (ascetic, dour, iron), สั้นกระชับ (laconic, succinct), ที่ไม่มีเวลาว่าง, อย่างมั่นคง (fast), ยาก (difficult, hard), หนาแน่น (thick), คับแน่น, ขี้เหนียว (cheap). (various references)

Turkish

zor (arduous, baffling, constraint, crucial, cruel, difficult, exacting, force, formidable, hairy, hard, inconvenient, knotty, main, mean, might, rough, sticky, stiff, strain, trickish, uneasy), sarhoş (bacchant, beery, besotted, blind drunk, blotto, bombed, boozed, boozer, boozy, canned, cockeyed, corked, drunk, drunkard, drunken, fried, groggy, high, intoxicated, jagged, lit, lit up, loaded, nappy, oiled, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, queer, screwed, sloshed, smashed, sodden, sot, sottish, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stewed, stiff, stinking, stinko, stoned, tanked, under the influence, under the influence of drink, under the weather, well oiled, winy, woozy, zonked), sızdırmaz (dripproof, escape-proof, impermeable, leakproof), sıkı (clinging, close, close fitting, close-bodied, compact, fast, firm, foursquare, gross, hard, iron, rigorous, searching, serried, Strait, strict, stringent, sure), kritik (climacteric, critical, crucial, review, supreme), kasılmış (contracted, cramped, strained), kısa ve özlü (brief but to the point, pithy, sententious), gergin (drawn, high strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervous, nervy, on a knife-edge, on edge, on pins and needles, skittish, spread, stiff, strained, stressfull, stretched, taut, tense, uptight), eli sıkı (close-fisted, hard-fisted, mean, near, shabby, skinny, tight-fisted), dar (acute, clinging, close fitting, close-bodied, constricted, exiguous, narrow, narrowly, parochial, poky, restrained, snug, Strait, stringent), cimri (chary, cheapskate, cheeseparing, churlish, close, close-fisted, costive, hard-fisted, illiberal, light purse, long purse, mangy, mean, measly, mingy, miser, near, parsimonious, penny pincher, penurious, piker, pinchpenny, screw, scrimp, scrimpy, Scrooge, shabby, shylock, skimp, skimpy, skin, skinflint, skinny, sordid, spare, stingy, tight purse, tight-fisted, tightwad, ungenerous), başabaş (at par, equal, even, neck and neck, on equal terms, quits). (various references)

Turkmen 

gysby. (various references)

Ukrainian

щільно (closely, densely, hermetically, massively), щільний (air proof, compact, dense, massive, sclerotic, thick, turbid), тісний (cramp, narrow, pinched, pokey, poky), тугий, грунтовно (capitally, circumstantiality, tightly), напружений (arduous, chilly, constrained, eager, high pressure, hot, prim, stiff, strained, stressful, strung, sulfurous, sulphurous, tensional, wrought up). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sít (close, close-set), khít khao chặt, khít chật, khít (closely), khan hiếm keo cú, không thấm, không rỉ chặt, kín (backstairs, confidential, hush-hush, inward, inwards, unapparent), chặt chẽ (hard-set, rigorous, tightly, undeviating), căng thẳng khó khăn, bó sát căng. (various references)

Welsh

tyn. (various references)

adstrictos, adstrictus, angustus, arta, artis, arto, artum, artus, constricti, constringantur, constringatur, constringe, constringes, constringit, constringitur, constringuntur, constrinxerant, constrinxerit, contenta, contenti, contentus, intensus, stricta, strictam, strictus, tenaci, tenax. (various references)

estreit. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.