strait

strait is a 6-letter English word with 16 senses as adjective, adverb, transitive verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A variant of Straight. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 6 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. A variant of Straight.
2. superlative. Narrow; not broad.
3. superlative. Tight; close; closely fitting.
4. superlative. Close; intimate; near; familiar.
5. superlative. Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.
6. superlative. Difficult; distressful; straited.
7. superlative. Parsimonious; niggargly; mean.
8. adverb. Strictly; rigorously.
9. adjective. A narrow pass or passage.
10. adjective. A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits, of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the strait, or straits, of Mackinaw.
11. adjective. A neck of land; an isthmus.
12. adjective. Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits.
13. transitive verb. To put to difficulties.
14. noun. a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water

    Synonyms: sound

15. noun. a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs

    Synonyms: pass, straits

16. adjective. narrow

    "strait is the gate"

Synonyms

sound, pass, straits

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in strait:

artist, strati, traist, traits

Common word forms

straits, straiten, straiter, straitly, straitest, straitness

Words from these letters

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