Taut
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English
Adjective
Taut (comparative Tauter, superlative Tautest)
- Tight; under tension, as in a rope or bow string.
- Experiencing stress or anxiety.
- 1989 Faye Kellerman, The Quality of Mercy
- His outward appearance was calm, but inside he was very taut.
- 1989 Faye Kellerman, The Quality of Mercy
- Containing only relevant parts, brief and controlled.
- 2007 Milton C. Sernett, Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory and History
- Quick action and dialogue create a taut story, although it is illustration that shapes the characters.
- 2007 Milton C. Sernett, Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory and History
Adverbs for Taut
curiously; nervously; dangerously; solidly; securely; sufficiently; perilously; finally; completely; lamentably; deplorably; inconveniently; rigidly; strangely; unaccountably
Thesaurus
all ataunto, anxious, apprehensive, ataunt, bungup and bilge-free, close, dragged out, drawn, drawn out, elongated, extended, firm, in suspense, in trim, keyed-up, lengthened, neat, on edge, on tenterhooks, on tiptoe, orderly, pokerlike, prolongated, prolonged, protracted, pulled, quivering, ramrodlike, renitent, rigid, rodlike, shipshape, smart, spruce, spun out, starched, starchy, stiff, stiff as buckram, straggling, strained, stretched, stretched out, stretched tight, strung out, tense, tidy, tight, trig, trim, under a strain, unrelaxed, uptight, virgate, with bated breath, with muscles tense
Etymology
From Middle English, past participle of tow
