Search Result for "taut":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. pulled or drawn tight;
- Example: "taut sails"
- Example: "a tight drumhead"
- Example: "a tight rope"
[syn: taut, tight]
2. subjected to great tension; stretched tight;
- Example: "the skin of his face looked drawn and tight"
- Example: "her nerves were taut as the strings of a bow"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Taut \Taut\, a. [Dan. t[ae]t; akin to E. tight. See Tight.] 1. (Naut.) Tight; stretched; not slack; -- said esp. of a rope that is tightly strained. [1913 Webster] 2. Snug; close; firm; secure. [1913 Webster] Taut hand (Naut.), a sailor's term for an officer who is severe in discipline. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "taut": all ataunto, anxious, apprehensive, ataunt, bungup and bilge-free, close, dragged out, drawn, drawn out, elongated, extended, firm, in suspense, in trim, keyed-up, lengthened, neat, on edge, on tenterhooks, on tiptoe, orderly, pokerlike, prolongated, prolonged, protracted, pulled, quivering, ramrodlike, renitent, rigid, rodlike, shipshape, smart, spruce, spun out, starched, starchy, stiff, stiff as buckram, straggling, strained, stretched, stretched out, stretched tight, strung out, tense, tidy, tight, trig, trim, under a strain, unrelaxed, uptight, virgate, with bated breath, with muscles tense
