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tight-knit

tight-knit adjective: strongly pulled together or connected, tightly knit.

Adjective

tight-knit (comparative more tight-knit, superlative most tight-knit)

  1. Strongly pulled together or connected, tightly knit.
    • Oral histories describe how ancient angara were tribal and nomadic before settling in cities. Many of them still live in large, tight-knit families and workplaces have a guild-like organizational structure.2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Angara Codex entry
    Synonyms:
    close-knit

tight-knit meaning in Bengali

tight-knit in Bengali

একত্রে যুক্ত, সংযুক্ত, শক্তভাবে বোনা

Synonyms of tight-knit

Forms of tight-knit

comparativemore tight-knit
superlativemost tight-knit
alternative formtightknit

Origin of tight-knit

From tight + knit.

Words that rhyme with tight-knit

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about tight-knit

What does tight-knit mean?
Tight-knit means strongly pulled together or connected, tightly knit.
What is tight-knit in Bengali?
Tight-knit in Bengali is একত্রে যুক্ত, সংযুক্ত, শক্তভাবে বোনা. See Tight-knit meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is tight-knit?
Tight-knit is an adjective.

Words near tight-knit in the dictionary

  1. tight-collar
  2. tight-fisted
  3. tight-fitting
  4. tight-head
  5. tight-heads
  6. tight-knit
  7. tight-laced
  8. tight-lipped
  9. tight-lippedness
  10. tight-rope
  11. tight-rope walking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tight-knit (page history and authors); tight-knit (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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