Word Type
Tight can be an adverb or an adjective.
tight used as an adverb:
- Firmly, so as not to come loose easily.
"Make sure the lid is closed tight." - Soundly.
"Good night, sleep tight."
An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →
tight used as an adjective:
- Pushed or pulled together.
"My socks are too tight." - Of a space, etc, narrow, so that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
"The passageway was so tight we could barely get through." - Of a turn, sharp, so that the timeframe for making it is narrow and following it is difficult.
"The mountain pass was made dangerous by its many tight corners." - Under high tension.
"Make sure to pull the rope tight." - Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
"Their marching band is extremely tight." - Intoxicated; drunk or acting like being drunk.
"We went drinking and got tight." - Intimately friendly.
"We've grown tighter over the years." - Extraordinarily great or special.
"That is one tight bicycle!" - Unfair; unkind.
"Don't do that. That's tight." - Miserly or frugal.
"He's a bit tight with his money" - Scarce, hard to come by.
"I grew up in a poor neighborhood; money was very tight, but we made do." - A player who plays very few hands
- A strategy which involves playing very few hands
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
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What type of word is tight?
- Adverb usage: Make sure the lid is closed tight.
- Adverb usage: Good night, sleep tight.
- Adjective usage: My socks are too tight.
- Adjective usage: The passageway was so tight we could barely get through.
- Adjective usage: They flew in a tight formation.
- Adjective usage: The mountain pass was made dangerous by its many tight corners.
- Adjective usage: Make sure to pull the rope tight.
- Adjective usage: Their marching band is extremely tight.
- Adjective usage: We went drinking and got tight.
- Adjective usage: We've grown tighter over the years.
- Adjective usage: That is one tight bicycle!
- Adjective usage: Don't do that. That's tight.
- Adjective usage: He's a bit tight with his money
- Adjective usage: I grew up in a poor neighborhood; money was very tight, but we made do.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of tight are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of tight, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
