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1. Closely constrained, 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
   "a tight drumhead";
   - taut
    
3. Set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration
   "in tight formation"; "a tight blockade"
    
4. Pressed tightly together
   "with lips tight";
   - compressed
    
5. (used of persons or behaviour) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
   "a tight person";
   - mean, mingy, miserly
    
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) having little space between threads; dense
   "smooth percale with a very tight weave";
   - close
    
9. Securely or solidly fixed in place; rigid
   "the bolts are tight"
    
10. (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched
    "a tight game";
    - close
     
11. Very drunk
    "I had travelling money and got tight in the bar downstairs";
    - besotted [archaic], blind drunk, blotto, crocked [N. Amer], cockeyed, fuddled, loaded [N. Amer], pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, wet, pickled, tanked up, bombed, wasted, liquored up [N. Amer], three sheets to the wind, swacked [N. Amer], juiced [N. Amer], stonkered [Austral, NZ], bladdered [Brit], lit, paralytic [Brit], legless [Brit], steaming, out of it [Brit], stinko, blitzed, mullered [Brit], trashed, stewed, hammered, trolleyed [Brit], fried [N. Amer], bevvied [Brit], drunk, pixillated, squiffed, half-seas-over [Brit]
     
12. Exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent
    "a good man to have on your side in a tight situation";
    - nasty
     
13. Demanding strict attention to rules and procedures
    "tight security";
    - rigorous, stringent
     
14. Packed closely together
    "they stood in a tight little group"; "hair in tight curls"; "the pub was packed tight"

1. Firmly or closely
   "held tight";
   - fast
    
2. In an attentive manner
   "he remained tight on his guard";
   - close, closely

Derived forms: tighter, tightest

See also: airtight, air-tight, choky, clenched, clinched, close, closed, close-fitting, compact, demanding, difficult, dripless, drunk, equal, exacting, fine, gas-tight, hard, hermetic, impermeable, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, invulnerable, leakproof, rainproof, scarce, seaworthy, secure, shut, skinny, skintight, skin-tight, snug, stingy, tense, tight fitting, tightfitting, tight-fitting, tightly fitting, ungenerous, viselike, waterproof, waterproofed, watertight

Antonym: leaky, loose

Encyclopedia: Tight