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Grammar : Adj
Spell : tahyt
Phonetic Transcription : taɪt



Definition of tighter

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
Example sentences :
  • The more he pulled and tugged the tighter they seemed to become.
  • Extract from : « Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout » by Victor Appleton
  • I don't know whether you have ever been in a tighter corner than that, Bertie.
  • Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro
  • Why, yes, I did hear that they were in a tighter box than ever, financially.
  • Extract from : « Cap'n Warren's Wards » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • But they only clung the tighter, and now threw their arms about each other.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 » by Various
  • But she only held her the tighter; he only grinned the more.
  • Extract from : « The Twins of Suffering Creek » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • So they were, and it grew tighter and tighter as they went on.
  • Extract from : « Two Arrows » by William O. Stoddard
  • She folded the scarf again about her, tighter, it seemed, than it was before.
  • Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown
  • It grasps the article firmly, and the heavier the weight the tighter is its grasp.
  • Extract from : « Practical Mechanics for Boys » by J. S. Zerbe
  • The smaller the group the tighter its stranglehold over your life and activities.
  • Extract from : « The Legacy of Greece » by Various
  • But the more she tossed the tighter she enmeshed herself in the web.
  • Extract from : « The Adventures of Maya the Bee » by Waldemar Bonsels

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