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say it: tahyt
tight is an adjective and adverb meaning "closely constrained or constricted or constricting". It carries 16 recorded senses.
set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration
“in tight formation”
“a tight blockade”
packed closely together
“they stood in a tight little group”
“hair in tight curls”
“the pub was packed tight”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tight come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.