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say it: tahyt
tight is an adjective and adverb meaning "closely constrained or constricted or constricting". It is pronounced /ˈtaɪt/ — tahyt. 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.