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HOME | Definition of tightness (TIGHTNESS, Tightness)


    Tightness \Tight"ness\, n.
    The quality or condition of being tight.
    [1913 Webster]

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    tightness
    n 1: a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of
    credit [syn: stringency]
    2: extreme stinginess [syn: meanness, minginess, niggardliness,
    niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightfistedness,
    closeness]
    3: lack of movement or room for movement [syn: tautness]
    [ant: looseness]

    WordNet (r) 2.0


    107 Moby Thesaurus words for "tightness":
    Jim Crow, adhesiveness, alien, apartheid, avarice, bullheadedness,
    cheapness, chinchiness, chintziness, closefistedness, closeness,
    cohesiveness, color bar, confinement, consistency, crowdedness,
    division, ethnocentrism, exclusiveness, exiguity, fewness,
    firmness, foreigner, gluiness, glutinosity, gumminess, hair,
    hairbreadth, hairsbreadth, hardfistedness, hoarding, illiberality,
    incapaciousness, incommodiousness, infrequency, insularity,
    insulation, isolation, know-nothingism, limitation, meagerness,
    miserliness, narrow gauge, narrowness, nearness, niggardliness,
    obstinacy, out-group, outcast, outsider, parochialism, paucity,
    penny-pinching, persistence, persistency, persona non grata,
    quarantine, race hatred, racial segregation, rarity, renitence,
    renitency, restrictedness, restriction, retention, rigidity,
    rigidness, rigor, scantiness, scarcity, scrimpiness, seclusion,
    segregation, separation, skimpiness, slenderness, smallness,
    snobbishness, snugness, sparseness, sparsity, starchiness,
    stick-to-itiveness, stickiness, stiffness, stinginess, straitness,
    stranger, strictness, stringency, stubbornness, tackiness,
    tautness, tenaciousness, tenacity, tenseness, tension, tensity,
    thinness, tight purse strings, tight squeeze, tightfistedness,
    toughness, ungenerosity, viscidity, viscosity, xenophobia

    Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0




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