Antonyms for tightest
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : tahyt |
| Phonetic Transcription : taɪt |
Definition of tightest
Origin :- mid-15c., "dense, close, compact," from Middle English thight, from Old Norse þettr "watertight, close in texture, solid," from Proto-Germanic *thenkhtuz (cf. second element in Old English meteþiht "stout from eating;" Middle High German dihte "dense, thick," German dicht "dense, tight," Old High German gidigan, German gediegen "genuine, solid, worthy"), from PIE root *tenk- "to become firm, curdle, thicken" (cf. Irish techt "curdled, coagulated," Lithuanian tankus "close, tight," Persian tang "tight," Sanskrit tanakti "draws together, contracts").
- Sense of "drawn, stretched" is from 1570s; meaning "fitting closely" (as of garments) is from 1779; that of "evenly matched" (of a contest, bargain, etc.) is from 1828, American English; that of "drunk" is from 1830; that of "close, sympathetic" is from 1956. Tight-assed "unwilling to relax" is attested from 1903. Tight-laced is recorded from 1741 in both the literal and figurative senses. Tight-lipped is first attested 1876.
- adj close, snug
- adj sealed
- adj stingy
- adj difficult, troublesome
- adj intoxicated
- I guess I would, in the tightest corner ever was chiseled out.
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
- The one who could hug the longest and the tightest won the game.
- Extract from : « Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children » by Mabel Powers
- It will take six banks of tubes on your tightest beam, LSV3, to reach us.
- Extract from : « Triplanetary » by Edward Elmer Smith
- "This is the tightest place we have been in yet," murmured Hazon.
- Extract from : « The Sign of the Spider » by Bertram Mitford
- But that there was a leetle the tightest squeeze I ever hed in Union Pass.
- Extract from : « Harper's Young People, February 8, 1881 » by Various
- "We are in the tightest fix of our lives," he declared, when Ben had gone.
- Extract from : « The Boy Chums in the Gulf of Mexico » by Wilmer M. Ely
- "If the tightest hand were not kept on her, there's no knowing what she mightn't do," said her brother.
- Extract from : « The Newcomes » by William Makepeace Thackeray
- It will take six bands of tubes on your tightest beam, LSV3, to reach us.
- Extract from : « Triplanetary » by Edward Elmer Smith
- The hot months are the busiest in the year and money's tightest.
- Extract from : « From Sea to Sea » by Rudyard Kipling
- They would be his best pair, no doubt, but your best pair is generally the tightest.
- Extract from : « The Return of the Prodigal » by May Sinclair
Synonyms for tightest
- airtight
- arduous
- blind
- blocked
- bolted
- boozy
- bound
- buzzed
- cheap
- choking
- clasped
- close
- close-fitting
- clumped
- compact
- constricted
- contracted
- cramped
- cramping
- critical
- crowded
- crushing
- cutting
- dangerous
- dense
- distressing
- disturbing
- drawn
- drunk
- drunken
- enduring
- established
- exacting
- fast
- fastened
- firm
- fixed
- grasping
- hazardous
- hermetic
- hermetically sealed
- hidebound
- high
- impenetrable
- impermeable
- impervious
- inebriated
- inflexible
- invulnerable
- loaded
- locked
- mean
- miserly
- nailed
- narrow
- near
- obstructed
- padlocked
- parsimonious
- penny-pinching
- penurious
- perilous
- pickled
- pinching
- plastered
- plugged
- precarious
- proof
- punishing
- quick
- rigid
- rough
- secure
- set
- short
- shrunken
- shut
- skintight
- slammed
- smashed
- smothering
- snapped
- solid
- sound
- sparing
- stable
- steady
- stewed
- sticky
- stiff
- stoned
- stopped up
- strained
- stretched
- strong
- sturdy
- taut
- tenacious
- tense
- thick
- ticklish
- tied
- tied up
- tightened
- tightfisted
- tipsy
- tough
- tricky
- trying
- unbending
- uncomfortable
- under the influence
- unyielding
- upsetting
- watertight
- worrisome
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