tightness

tightness is a 9-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The quality or condition of being tight. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 14 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The quality or condition of being tight.
2. noun. lack of movement or room for movement

   Synonyms: tautness

3. noun. extreme stinginess

   Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, tightfistedness

4. noun. the spatial property of being crowded together

   Synonyms: compactness, concentration, denseness, density

5. noun. a tight feeling in some part of the body

   "he felt a constriction in her chest"

   "she felt an alarming tightness in her chest"

   Synonyms: constriction

6. noun. a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit

   Synonyms: stringency

Synonyms

tautness, closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, tightfistedness, compactness, concentration, denseness, density, constriction, stringency

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