taut, tight
(adjective) pulled or drawn tight; “taut sails”; “a tight drumhead”; “a tight rope”
taut
(adjective) subjected to great tension; stretched tight; “the skin of his face looked drawn and tight”; “her nerves were taut as the strings of a bow”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
taut (comparative tauter, superlative tautest)
(also, figuratively) Under tension, like a stretched bowstring, rope, or sail; tight.
Synonyms: nonslack, stretched, tense, tensioned, Thesaurus:taut
Antonyms: untaut, Thesaurus:loose
(of a body, muscles, etc.) Not flabby; firm, toned; (of a person) having a lean, strong body.
(of music, writing, etc.) Containing only relevant parts; brief and controlled.
Synonyms: concise, crisp, terse, tight, Thesaurus:concise
Antonym: Thesaurus:verbose
(figuratively) Experiencing anxiety or stress.
Synonyms: nonrelaxed, strained, tense, unrelaxed
(nautical, of a sailor, a ship, etc.) Neat and well-disciplined; (by extension) efficient and in order.
(oenology) Strong; uncompromising.
taut (third-person singular simple present tauts, present participle tauting, simple past and past participle tauted)
(transitive) To make taut; to tauten, to tighten.
• Ta Tu, Ta-tu, tatu
Source: Wiktionary
Taut, a. Etym: [Dan. tæt; akin to E. tight. See Tight.]
1. (Naut.)
Definition: Tight; stretched; not slack; -- said esp. of a rope that is tightly strained.
2. Sung; close; firm; secure. Taut hand (Naut.), a sailor's term for an officer who is severe in discipline.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 June 2025
(noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time); “his detention was politically motivated”; “the prisoner is on hold”; “he is in the custody of police”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
