Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
A variant of Straight.
- 2superlative
Narrow; not broad.
- 3superlative
Tight; close; closely fitting.
- 4superlative
Close; intimate; near; familiar.
- 5superlative
Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.
- 6superlative
Difficult; distressful; straited.
- 7superlative
Parsimonious; niggargly; mean.
- 8adverb
Strictly; rigorously.
- 9adjective
A narrow pass or passage.
- 10adjective
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.
- 11adjective
A neck of land; an isthmus.
- 12adjective
Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits.
- 13transitive verb
To put to difficulties.
- 14noun
a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
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- 15noun
a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- 16adjective
narrow
"strait is the gate"
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