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taut
[tawt] 
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taut
[tawt]
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rigid, tight |
| Synonyms: | close, firm, flexed, snug, stiff, strained, stressed, stretched, tense, tightly drawn, trim, unyielding |
| Notes: | taunt meant to mock or tease someone; taut means tightly stretched or tense |
| Antonyms: | droopy, flabby, loose, slack |
| Main Entry: | drawn |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tense, fatigued |
| Synonyms: | fraught, haggard, harassed, harrowed, peaked, pinched, sapped, starved, strained, stressed, taut, thin, tired, worn |
| Antonyms: | relaxed, unstressed |
| Main Entry: | firm |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stable, unmoving |
| Synonyms: | anchored, bolted, braced, cemented, closed, durable, embedded, fast, fastened, fixed, immobile, immovable, motionless, mounted, nailed, petrified, riveted, robust, rooted, screwed, secure, secured, set, settled, soldered, solid, sound, spiked, stationary, steady, strong, sturdy, substantial, taut, tenacious, tight, tightened, unfluctuating, unshakable, welded |
| Antonyms: | moving, unsettled, unstable, wavering |
| Main Entry: | inflexible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hardened, stiff |
| Synonyms: | hard, immalleable, impliable, inelastic, nonflexible, rigid, set, starched, taut, unbending |
| Antonyms: | bendable, elastic, flexible, pliable, pliant, resilient, soft |
| Main Entry: | nervous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | anxious, fearful |
| Synonyms: | afraid, agitated, annoyed, apprehensive, basket case, bothered, concerned, distressed, disturbed, edgy, excitable, fidgety, fitful, flustered, fussy*, hesitant, high-strung, hysterical, irritable, jittery, jumpy, nervy, neurotic, on edge, overwrought, querulous, restive, ruffled, sensitive, shaky*, shrinking, shy, skittish, snappish, solicitous, spooked, taut, tense, timid, timorous, troubled, twitchy, uneasy, unrestful, unstrung, upset, uptight, volatile, weak, wired, worried |
| Antonyms: | brave, calm, unafraid, unnervous, unworried |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stiff |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hard, inflexible |
| Synonyms: | annealed, arthritic, benumbed, brittle, buckram, cemented, chilled, congealed, contracted, creaky, firm, fixed, frozen, graceless, hardened, immalleable, impliable, incompliant, indurate, inelastic, jelled, mechanical, numbed, ossified, petrified, refractory, resistant, rheumatic, rigid, set, solid, solidified, starched, starchy, stark, steely, stiff as a board, stony, taut, tense, thick, thickened, tight, unbending, unflexible, ungraceful, unsupple, unyielding, wooden |
| Antonyms: | flexible, pliable, pliant, soft |
| Main Entry: | strained |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | forced, pretended |
| Synonyms: | artificial, at end of rope, awkward, choked, constrained, difficult, embarrassed, false, farfetched, hard put, in a state, labored, nervous wreck, put, self-conscious, stiff, strung out, taut, tense, tight, uncomfortable, uneasy, unglued, unnatural, unrelaxed, uptight, wired, wreck* |
| Antonyms: | genuine, unforced |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tense |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tight, stretched |
| Synonyms: | close, firm, rigid, stiff, strained, taut |
| Antonyms: | limp, limpid, loose, relaxed, slack |
| Main Entry: | terse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brief, short |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, aphoristic, boiled down, breviloquent, brusque, clear-cut, clipped, close, compact, compendiary, compendious, concise, condensed, crisp, cryptic, curt, cut to the bone, elliptical, epigrammatic, exact, gnomic, in a nutshell, incisive, laconic, lean, neat, pithy, pointed, precise, sententious, short and sweet, snappy, succinct, summary, taut, to the point, trenchant |
| Notes: | use terse to characterize brevity or succinctness of expression in a person; concise is used to characterize this in a message |
| Antonyms: | lengthy, long-winded, prolix, wordy |
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