skin-tight

1. 1.

   so tight as to cling to the skin

   “skintight jeans”

   Synonymsskintight

   Similartight

Questions about skin-tight

What does skin-tight mean?

skin-tight means "so tight as to cling to the skin".

How many syllables are in skin-tight?

skin-tight has 2 syllables and divides as skin--tight under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for skin-tight?

Close synonyms include skintight. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.