单词 | tightness |
释义 | tightness (once / 9842 pages) n WORD FAMILY tight: tighten, tighter, tightest, tightly, tightness+/tighten: tightened, tightening, tightens/tightening: tightenings USAGE EXAMPLESWipe the rims of the jars with a clean, damp, paper towel and fix on new two-piece lids to fingertip tightness. Seattle Times(Nov 30, 2016) Shooting guard Bradley Beal missed three consecutive games because of hamstring tightness. Washington Times(Nov 21, 2016) You’re feeling a bit uneasy – say, a tightness in your chest or a rumbling in your stomach. New York Times(Jun 14, 2013) 1n lack of movement or room for movement Syn|Ant|Hyper tautness looseness, play movement or space for movement immovability, immovableness not capable of being moved or rearranged 2n the spatial property of being crowded together Syn|Ant|Hyper compactness, concentration, denseness, density dispersion, distribution the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume spacing, spatial arrangement the property possessed by an array of things that have space between them 3n a tight feeling in some part of the body she felt an alarming tightness in her chest Syn|Hyper constriction feeling a physical sensation that you experience 4n a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit Syn|Hyper stringency deficiency, lack, want the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable 5n extreme stinginess Syn|Hypo|Hyper closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness littleness, pettiness, smallness lack of generosity in trifling matters miserlinesstotal lack of generosity with money stinginess a lack of generosity; a general unwillingness to part with money |
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