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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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