English language

How to pronounce tightness in English?

Toggle Transcript
Type Words
Synonyms compactness, concentration, denseness, density
Type of spacing, spatial arrangement
Derivation tight
Type Words
Synonyms closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness
Type of stinginess
Has types littleness, miserliness, pettiness, smallness
Derivation tight
Type Words
Synonyms tautness
Type of immovability, immovableness
Derivation tight
Type Words
Synonyms stringency
Type of deficiency, lack, want
Derivation tight
Type Words
Synonyms constriction
Type of feeling
Derivation tight


she felt an alarming tightness in her chest.

Examples of tightness

tightness
He had tightness in his legs a couple weeks ago and we shut him down for awhile.
From the stltoday.com
Sheets left the game after the fifth inning with tightness in his right triceps.
From the jsonline.com
He ended with tightness in his muscles that extended to his hamstrings and hips.
From the timesunion.com
Cover and leave on the worktop for 15 minutes, so the dough loses its tightness.
From the guardian.co.uk
The mock up may be required to be tested for water tightness and lateral forces.
From the en.wikipedia.org
This helps aid digestion and opens up the spine to release tightness and tension.
From the dallasnews.com
The drop in oil and tightness in credit fed investors'worries about the sector.
From the omaha.com
The tightness surfaced on March 22 while throwing 90 pitches against Kansas City.
From the denverpost.com
The question is whether supply, and trade, can grow to offset market tightness.
From the nytimes.com
More examples
  • Stringency: a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit
  • Constriction: a tight feeling in some part of the body; "he felt a constriction in her chest"; "she felt an alarming tightness in her chest"; "emotion caused a constriction of his throat"
  • Concentration: the spatial property of being crowded together
  • Meanness: extreme stinginess
  • Lack of movement or room for movement
  • Tightness is defined as a point in time where economically, it is very difficult to invest, but it is far easier to sell or to remove investments in return of monetary rewards. The higher the level of the tightness, the more expensive, less common, and less reliable the market becomes. ...
  • In mathematics, a cardinal function (or cardinal invariant) is a function that returns cardinal numbers.
  • Shortness; denotes a slight to moderate decrease in muscle length; movement in the direction of lengthening the muscle is limited.
  • Leakage / time unit; non-desired quanitity of the gaseous medium that escapes in the switched-on or switched-off state of a valve during a time interval