tight-knit

[ tahyt-nit ]

adjective
  1. well-organized and integrated.

Words Nearby tight-knit

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How to use tight-knit in a sentence

  • His well-built, tight-knit figure gave one the impression that he was even stronger than he looked.

  • The person I saw was none of this; for he was not large in stature, having a figure tight-knit even to slenderness.

British Dictionary definitions for tightknit

tightknit

/ (ˌtaɪtˈnɪt) /


adjective
  1. closely integrated: a tightknit community

  2. organized carefully and concisely

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