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tight-laced

tight-laced adjective: synonym of strait-laced.

Adjective

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

  1. Synonym of strait-laced.
    Synonyms:
    strait-laced

Synonyms of tight-laced

Forms of tight-laced

comparativemore tight-laced
superlativemost tight-laced

Questions about tight-laced

What does tight-laced mean?
Tight-laced means synonym of strait-laced.
What part of speech is tight-laced?
Tight-laced is an adjective.

Words near tight-laced in the dictionary

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

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