tightly knit

1. 1.

   closely and firmly integrated

   “a tight-knit organization”

   Synonymstight-knit

   Similarintegrated

Questions about tightly knit

What does tightly knit mean?

tightly knit means "closely and firmly integrated".

What is another word for tightly knit?

Close synonyms include tight-knit. 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.

Is tightly knit a common word?

tightly knit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.