tightknit
Britishadjective
-
closely integrated
a tightknit community
-
organized carefully and concisely
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
On tightknit Nantucket, the bluff debate has tested longtime ties.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
“It turns out the approach can’t simply cut out existing software makers and their tightknit relationships with business customers,” writes my colleague Adam Levine.
From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026
When protests broke out to oust the Shah, she showed up for her community, a tightknit cluster of graduate students who were frustrated by his extravagance and tyranny.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
Another thing that makes Johns Creek so special is that the nearly 80,000 residents who call the area home enjoy a tightknit, inclusive community.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2025
Valadez invited him to visit her office off the shore of Clear Lake, to her tightknit community where the security guard at the courthouse next door calls entrants “kiddo.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
