tautadjective
uk/tɔːt/us/tɑːt/taut adjective (TIGHT)
tight or completely stretched:
a taut rope
He kept his eyes on the road ahead, his face taut with concentration.
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slack adjective
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Tight and tightening
- close-fitting
- fast
- serried
- skinny
- snug
- stiffen
- strain
- tauten
- tense
- tension
- tight
- tighten
- tighten sth up
- tightly
- up
- vice-like
taut adjective (EXCITED/NERVOUS)
literary excited or nervous:
His latest film was described as a taut thriller.
There was a taut edge to Chris's voice.
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Excited, interested and enthusiastic
- aflutter
- agog
- all of a flutter idiom
- amped
- animated
- be as high as a kite idiom
- exhilarated
- fanatical
- fascinated
- fasten
- fasten on/upon sth
- flushed
- flutter
- knot
- overheated
- overzealous
- passionate
- pop-eyed
- potty
- sniff
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taut adjective (WRITING/SPEECH)
literary Taut writing or speech is controlled, clear, and short:
taut prose
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Not saying much
- a man/woman of few words idiom
- brevity
- brief
- briefly
- cat
- concise
- crisp
- curt
- few
- has the cat got your tongue? idiom
- laconic
- not waste words idiom
- pithy
- quietly
- reticent
- terse
- wall
- walls have ears idiom
- waste
- well chosen
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