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noun
The quality or degree of being tight.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
lack of movement or room for movement
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: tautness
Antonyms: looseness
Broader terms: immovability, immovableness
noun
extreme stinginess
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightfistedness, closeness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: stinginess
Narrower terms: pettiness, littleness, smallness, miserliness
noun
the spatial property of being crowded together
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: concentration, density, denseness, compactness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: spacing, spatial arrangement
noun
a tight feeling in some part of the body
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: constriction
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: feeling
noun
a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: stringency
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: lack, deficiency, want
History
Etymology tree English tight Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English tightness From tight + -ness.
Across languages
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
