tight

Main Entry:
tight [tahyt]
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: stingy
Synonyms: cheap, close, grasping, mean, miserly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, sparing, tightfisted
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: 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
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: 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
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: 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
Notes: cheap means relatively low in price or charging low prices, tastelessly showy, or of very poor quality while cheep is the short weak cry of a young bird, a chirp
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
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