Tight vs Stuffed - What's the difference?

Tight is a related term of stuffed.

As adjectives the difference between tight and stuffed

is that tight is firmly held together; compact; not loose or open while stuffed is full (with), or packed (with some material or substance).

As verbs the difference between tight and stuffed

is that tight is (obsolete) to tighten while stuffed is (stuff).

As an adverb tight

is firmly, so as not to come loose easily.

tight

English

Adjective

(er)

Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.

Fitting close, or too close, to the body.

Of a space, etc, narrow, so that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.

Of a turn, sharp, so that the timeframe for making it is narrow and following it is difficult.

Under high tension.

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, chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].}}

*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=November 10, author=Jeremy Wilson, work=Telegraph, title= England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report

, passage=The only negative from a comfortable first-half was the sight of Aston Villa’s Nathan Delfouneso being withdrawn with a tight hamstring after only 11 minutes.}}

Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.

Lacking holes; difficult to penetrate; waterproof.

* 1965 , MotorBoating , page 145

He reported the hull was tight and secure and did not leak a drop.

*2014 , Ian Black, " Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian , 27 November:

*:Security is tight inside and outside the building, guarded by a bewildering collection of soldiers, policemen and gendarmes. Relatives watch as prisoners in handcuffs and leg irons shuffle past.

*2014 , , " Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:

*:The odd thing was that Sunderland made the better start and showed early signs that they might pose serious problems to the Premier League’s tightest defence.

(lb) Intoxicated; drunk or acting like being drunk.

*2001 , (Gaelic Storm), Johnny Tarr'' (on the album '' ):

*:Johnny walked into the Castle Bar, looking to get tight .

(lb) Intimately friendly.

(lb) Extraordinarily great or special.

Mean; unfair; unkind.

*1977 , Willy Russell, Our Day Out , Act One, Scene One:

*:Reilly: Ey, Miss, hang on, hang on... can we come with y', Miss? Can we?

*:Digga: Go on, Miss, don't be tight , let's come.

*2001 , Kevin Sampson, Outlaws , p.244:

*:"Ah leave him, ay!" goes one of the girls. "Don't be tight'." I turns to her. "Don't you think it's ' tight terrorising old ladies? Ay?"

*2011 , Andrew Hicks, "Thai Girl: A story of the one who said 'no'", unnumbered page :

*:"That's right ... so even when life's a grind, the Thais keep smiling. They think the farang are a miserable lot who have to get drunk to enjoy themselves."

*:"Dutch, that's tight mate, I mean what's wrong with getting pissed. When you're not working, you gotta have a good time," said Darren.

Miserly or frugal.

(lb) Scarce, hard to come by.

(rfd-sense) (ux) Not conceding many goals.

(lb) Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy.

*(John Evelyn) (1620-1706)

*:clad very plain, but clean and tight

*(Thomas Gray) (1716-1771)

*:I'll spin and card, and keep our children tight .

*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husbandfrom time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.

(lb) Handy; adroit; brisk.

:(Shakespeare)

(lb) Of a player, who plays very few hands. (rfex)

(lb) Using a strategy which involves playing very few hands. (rfex)

Synonyms

* (pushed/pulled together''): close, serried (''of ranks ), tight-fitting (of clothes) * (narrow ): narrow * (under high tension ): taut, tense, under tension * (well-rehearsed and accurate ): polished, precise * (intimately friendly ): close, close-knit, intimate * (slang: intoxicated''): ''See also * (slang: extraordinarily great or special ): ace, cool, fab, rad, slick

Antonyms

* (pushed/pulled together''): baggy (''of clothing or other material ), loose, sagging, saggy, slack * (narrow ): broad, capacious, open, roomy, spacious, wide * (under high tension ): loose, relaxed, slack * (well-rehearsed and accurate ): slack, slapdash, sloppy * (slang: extraordinarily great or special ): crap, naff, pathetic, rubbish

Derived terms

* airtight * as tight as a duck's arse, tight as a duck's arse * as tight as a gnat's chuff, tight as a gnat's chuff * dust-tight * finger-tight * in tight * light-tight * skintight * steamtight * supertight * tight as a tick * tightass * tight closure * tighten * tight end * tight-fisted * tight-fitting * tight-knit * tight-laced * tight lattice * tight-lipped * tightly * tightness * tightrope * tights * tightwad * tightwire * tighty whities * uptight * watertight * weathertight

Adverb

(en adverb)

Firmly, so as not to come loose easily.

Make sure the lid is closed tight .

Soundly.

Good night, sleep tight.

Synonyms

* (firmly ): fast, firmly, securely * (soundly ): soundly, well

Antonyms

* (firmly ): loosely * (soundly ): badly, fitfully

Derived terms

* hold tight * sit tight * sleep tight

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To tighten.

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stuffed

English

Verb

(head)

(stuff)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Full (with), or packed (with some material or substance).

*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too..

*1997 , Philippe Bonnefis, Paul Weidmann (translator), Céline: The Recall of the Birds , p.109:

*:Hence, perhaps, the dins Céline deafens us with, in texts more and more stuffed with onomatopoeias.

*2008 , Carn Tiernan, On the Back of the Other Side , p.2:

*:She didn?t forget to pack anything, none of those irritating little things that wait till the last moment to pop out of hiding and make her re-open her most stuffed suitcase.

*2009 , Marsha Collier, eBay Business All-in-One For Dummies , 2nd Edition, unnumbered page:

*:The more stuffed your hard drive, the more Blob-like it becomes.

*2009 , David Ugba, Awaken the Riches Within: Creating Extraordinary Wealth Using the Powerful Imagination of a Poet , iUniverse, p.96:

*:Creating a poetic or extraordinary belief is the simple act of intensifying the mood or atmosphere of your belief and making it more stuffed with the ability or power to come real.

(lb) Full after eating.

*2002 , Sheila M. Reindl, Sensing the Self: Women?s Recovery from Bulimia , p.40:

*:Beth says: “I never knew when I was full ?cause I always felt like I didn?t know whether I was hungry or full. My whole life I never knew when I was full or hungry unless I was really stuffed or really starving.”

*2009 , Jason McCammon, The Ancient Lands: Warrior Quest: Search for the IFA Scepter , unnumbered page:

*:“See, huge meal.” Replied Farra. / “Still stuffed'.” / “Yes, quite ' stuffed .”

*2009 , Swapna Dutta, Geeta Menon (editor), Folk Tales of West Bengal , p.47:

*:Allhadi gave a contented yawn and said: / “I have eaten till I am really stuffed / I am full and bloated and so puffed / I am bursting, I am telling you true / I couldn?t eat more if you begged me to.”

Very tired.

*2011 , Nick Oud, The Hatchling and The Human , Xlibris, p.74:

*:‘Well, you talked me into it,’ said Cornelius. ‘I feel really stuffed . I can tell you that for sure. So I could do with a bloody good sleep.’

Broken, not functional; in trouble, in a situation from which one is unlikely to recover.

*1998 , , The Night is for Hunting , 2001, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, unnumbered page:

*:If the suspension was stuffed' already from hitting the concrete base of the fence—and it was—then it was really ' stuffed by the time we?d gone a kilometre along the railway.

*2002 , Clare de Vries, Of Cats and Kings , p.174:

*:But if you don?t play ball in life, if you don?t go for it with a sincere ‘Go, girrrrl’ rugby-tackle attitude, you?re really stuffed .

Derived terms

* get stuffed * stuffed animal, stuffy * stuffed shirt