Tight

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Compressed

Synonyms Compact, compressed, hard, solid, compacted, dense, and unyielding.

Narrow

Synonyms Tight-fitting, narrow, skintight, sprayed on, close-fitting, figure-hugging, and sheathlike.

Secure

Synonyms Firm, secure, clenched, fast, fixed, and clinched.

Sealed

Synonyms Impervious, sealed, hermetic, waterproof, impenetrable, sound, watertight, and airtight.

Stretched

Synonyms Taut, stiff, stretched, stressed, rigid, tense, and strained.

Stringent

Synonyms Strict, stringent, rigid, uncompromising, systematic, painstaking, rigorous, tough, firm, exacting, meticulous, and scrupulous.

Crisp

Synonyms Succinct, pithy, straightforward, condensed, laconic, to the point, short and sweet, compendious, synoptic, gnomic, economic, crisp, concise, well structured, terse, summary, in a few well-chosen words, epigrammatic, and aphoristic.

Limited

Synonyms Small, narrow, poky, restricted, cramped, uncomfortable, sparse, strait, tiny, compact, limited, confined, constricted, minimal, inadequate, and incommodious.

Skimpy

Synonyms Scarce, scant, meagre, reduced, diminished, in short supply, deficient, insufficient, scanty, skimpy, sparse, depleted, low, limited, and inadequate.

Even

Synonyms Close, evenly matched, hard-fought, even, well matched, and neck and neck.

Parsimonious

Synonyms Miserly, ungenerous, penny-pinching, penurious, illiberal, mean, mingy, cheap, parsimonious, close-fisted, cheese-paring, Scrooge-like, close, stingy, tight-fisted, and near.

Inebriated

Synonyms Drunk, inebriated, befuddled, tipsy, under the influence, blind drunk, rolling drunk, (as) drunk as a lord, sottish, toping, merry, woozy, two/three sheets to the wind, plastered, wrecked, soused, sozzled, blitzed, stewed, tanked (up), bombed, blasted, out of/off one's head, wasted, in one's cups, cock-eyed, guttered, stinko, legless, bevvied, Brahms and Liszt, out of it, bladdered, well away, tiddly, having had one over the eight, steamed, slaughtered, fou, shickered, turnt, as full as a goog, munted, tired and emotional, lit up, half seas over, sotted, foxed, crapulent, inebriate, ebrious, ebriate, drunken, intoxicated, incapable, the worse for drink, maudlin, dead drunk, roaring drunk, (as) drunk as a skunk, tippling, gin-soaked, the worse for wear, pie-eyed, under the table, smashed, sloshed, well oiled, blotto, canned, pickled, soaked, hammered, off one's face, out of one's skull, wired, reeling, zonked, fuddled, ratted, steaming, paralytic, half cut, having had a skinful, trolleyed, squiffy, out of one's box, cut, mullered, lashed, full, shot, grogged up, inked, lekker, stoned, as tight as a tick, pixilated, besotted, screwed, crapulous, bibulous, and ebriose.

Example Sentences

The lid was screwed on tight.

She held the rope tight during the climb.

The dress fit her very tight.

Keep a tight grip on the handle.

The schedule is very tight this week.

He kept his wallet in a tight pocket.

The team worked under tight deadlines.

The jar seal was tight and hard to open.

They live in a tight-knit community.

The belt was pulled tight around his waist.