tight

adj

1. fixed, fastened, fast, secure, secured, clinched, made fast, set, sound; stable, stationary, unmovable, immovable, irremovable.

2. taut, tense, strained, rigid, stiff; unrelaxed, under a strain, Inf. uptight.

3. snug, close-fitting, form-fitting, skin-tight; close, near, compact, compacted, constricted, confined, cramped, compressed, restricted, limited.

4. difficult, touchy, sticky, delicate, ticklish, tricky, precarious; dangerous, perilous, hazardous.

5. impervious, imperviable, impenetrable; impermeable, unporous, nonporous, watertight, waterproof, leakproof; proof, resistant, hermetic, hermetically sealed; closed, shut, sealed.

6. concise, succinct, terse, pithy, epigrammatic; cryptic, laconic, to the point, pointed, direct, straightforward, clear-cut; sharp, incisive, keen, trenchant.

7.Informal. close, even, neck and neck, U.S. Inf. nip and tuck, nose to nose, shoulder to shoulder.

8.Informal. stingy, tight-fisted, parsimonious. See tight-fisted.

9.Slang. drunk, intoxicated, inebriated; AU Inf. boozy, lit, lit up, lit to the gills, illuminated, half seas over, three or four sheets to the wind, under the sauce, off-color, high, high as a kite, feeling good, feeling no pain, out of it, out-cold, out, under the table.