tights

1. 1.

   skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls

   Synonymsleotards

   Broaderhosiery

   Narrowermaillotpantyhose

   plural

Other forms of tights

plural

tightses·

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.

Questions about tights

What does tights mean?

tights means "skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls".

How many syllables are in tights?

tights has 1 syllable: tights. In IPA it is /ˈtaɪts/.

What is another word for tights?

Close synonyms include leotards. 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 tights a common word?

tights is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.