| Main Entry: | tight |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | close, snug |
Synonyms: |
bound, clasped, close-fitting, compact, constricted, contracted, cramped, crowded, dense, drawn, enduring, established, fast, firm, fixed, hidebound, inflexible, invulnerable, narrow, quick, rigid, secure, set, skintight, solid, stable, steady, stiff, strained, stretched, strong, sturdy, taut, tenacious, tense, thick, tightened, unbending, unyielding |
| Notes: | the choice of 'tight' or 'tightly' depends on whether it is the result or the application that is emphasized; if it is an enduring state, you would use 'tight' |
Antonyms: |
comfortable, free, loose, open, slack |
| Main Entry: | tight |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sealed |
Synonyms: |
airtight, blind, blocked, bolted, choking, clumped, cramping, crushing, cutting, fast, fastened, firm, fixed, hermetic, hermetically sealed, impenetrable, impermeable, impervious, locked, nailed, obstructed, padlocked, pinching, plugged, proof, secure, short, shrunken, shut, skintight, slammed, smothering, snapped, sound, stopped up, tied, tied up, uncomfortable, watertight |
Antonyms: |
loose, open, unsealed, wide |
| Main Entry: | tight |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stingy |
Synonyms: |
cheap, close, grasping, mean, miserly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, sparing, tightfisted |
Antonyms: |
free, giving |
| Main Entry: | tight |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, troublesome |
Synonyms: |
arduous, close, critical, dangerous, distressing, disturbing, exacting, hazardous, near, perilous, precarious, punishing, rough, sticky, tense, ticklish, tough, tricky, trying, upsetting, worrisome |
Antonyms: |
easy, untroubled |
| Main Entry: | tight |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intoxicated |
Synonyms: |
boozy, buzzed, drunk, drunken, high*, inebriated, loaded, pickled, plastered, smashed, stewed, stoned, tipsy, under the influence |
Antonyms: |
sober |
| Main Entry: | amiable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, agreeable |
Synonyms: |
affable, amicable, attractive, benign, breezy, buddy-buddy, charming, cheerful, clubby, complaisant, cool*, copacetic, cordial, cozy, delightful, downright neighborly, easy, engaging, friendly, genial, good-humored, good-natured, gracious, home cooking, kind, kindly, lenient, lovable, mellow, mild, obliging, palsy-walsy, pleasant, pleasing, princely, pussycat, responsive, right, righteous, sociable, sweet-tempered, swell*, tight*, warm, warmhearted, winning |
| Notes: | amicable implies being well disposed; amiable is acting well disposed and amiable is commonly applied only to people - though sometimes it is used for occasions, while amicable is not applied to people at all but to human interactions and their outcomes; amiable first meant 'kind' or 'lovely, lovable' and amicable first applied to things and meant 'pleasant, benign' |
Antonyms: |
crabby, disagreeable, gloomy, hateful, irritable, mean, quarrelsome, rude, surly, testy, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | avaricious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy |
Synonyms: |
covetous, gluttonous, hoarding, money-grubbing, pleonectic, predatory, rapacious, selfish, tight* |
| Main Entry: | cheap |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerned with saving money |
Synonyms: |
mean, mingy, miserly, penny-pinching, stingy, thrifty, tight*, tight-wad |
| Main Entry: | close |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dense, cramped |
Synonyms: |
circumscribed, close-grained, compact, confined, confining, congested, consolidated, cropped, crowded, firm, impenetrable, impermeable, jam-packed, narrow, packed, restricted, short, solid, substantial, thick, tight |
Antonyms: |
loose, open, uncramped |
| Main Entry: | close |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | oppressive, humid |
Synonyms: |
airless, breathless, choky, confined, fusty, heavy, moldy, motionless, muggy, musty, stagnant, stale, stale-smelling, sticky, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, sultry, sweltering, sweltry, thick, tight, uncomfortable, unventilated |
Antonyms: |
cool, dry |