Tight and Wanting

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Tight adjective - Not allowing penetration (as by gas, liquid, or light).

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Wanting and tight are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wanting" instead an adjective "Tight".

Nearby Words: tighten, tightness, tightly

Wanting adjective - Falling short of a standard.

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Tight and wanting are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Tight" instead an adjective "Wanting".

Nearby Words: want, wanted

Getting Crap Past the Radar: In the play, Emily Brent makes various comments on Vera Claythorne not wanting to appear flashy to her hostess—right before making a nasty comment on how tight her dress appears (with Vera, of course, being utterly naive as to what she really means).

Source: Literature / And Then There Were None
In "Amado Mio," a cover of another song, China Forbes sings "I want you ever, I love my darling, wanting to hold you and hold you tight" - and only later did the band realize that the words are "My one endeavor, my love, my darling."

Source: Mondegreen
The judges, who were pretty vocal about wanting Nicole to win, scored her 2 points higher than Evan (30-28) both times, turning what had been up to that point a tight contest into an easy victory for Nicole.

Source: Golden Snitch

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