taut
adjective
tightly drawn; tense; not slack.
tauter
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comparativeof taut.comparative
The form of an adjective or adverb indicating a greater degree of a quality.
Example Sentences
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With judicious trimming, particularly of the occasional puddle of expository or repetitive dialogue, the play would gain a tauter pace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2025
The device, called CoolSculpting, was entering an already-crowded beauty industry selling flatter stomachs and tauter jawlines, but it had an advantage: a vaunted scientific pedigree.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
His music looked back to the not-so-distant days of psychedelia and the Velvet Underground, but it was leaner, tauter, steelier.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2023
All told, "Moon Knight" is an odd show in that it gives us characters and actors we'd love to spend more time with, albeit in tauter scenarios than the one presented here.
From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2022
And once more there was silence; and the expectancy, momentarily relaxed, was stretched again, tauter, tauter, almost to the tearing point.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
