Word Study
tight money |
tight spot |
tight squeeze |
tight-fitting |
tight-knit |
tight-laced
| tighten
| tighten one's belt
| tighten up
| tightened
| tightener
tight-laced
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective tight-laced has 1 sense
- tight-laced(s = adj.all) priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, victorian - exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
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