tight

CEFRA2

/taɪt/

adjective

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  1. 01

    adjective

    Firmly fixed or difficult to move, enter, or remove.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Leaving very little extra space around something.

Examples

  • Being a teacher, you must learn to keep a tight rein on your emotions.

  • He kept a tight grip on her arm.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

  1. Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.

  2. Unyielding or firm.

  3. Under high tension; taut.

More examples

In context

  • These shoes are too tight. They hurt.

  • Pull your seatbelts tight before takeoff.

  • a tight sponge; a tight knot

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Quick test

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Question 1 · Deep check

The new shoes were a bit too blank and they were starting to hurt my feet after walking today.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

adjective

From Middle English tight, tyght, tyȝt, tiht, variants of thight, thiht, from Old English *þiht, *þīht (attested in meteþiht), from Proto-West Germanic *þį̄ht(ī), from Proto-Germanic *þinhtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *tenkt- (“dense, thick, tight”), from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, pull”). Cognate with Scots ticht, West Frisian ticht, Danish tæt, Icelandic þéttur (“dense”), Norwegian tett, Swedish tät, Dutch dicht (“dense”), German dicht (“dense”). The current form with t- /t/ rather than etymologically-expected th- /θ/ arose in Middle English under the influence of the etymologically-unrelated verbs tighten and tight, which come from a different Proto-Indo-European root (start...