Definition for Taut:

• Tight. See Taught.

Synonyms for Taut:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • taut.
  •anxious (adjective)
  • basket case,
  • Dreading,
  • careful,
  • Clutched,
  • jumpy,
  • troubled,
  • apprehensive,
  • aghast,
  • disquieted,
  • sweating bullets,
  • bugged,
  • choked,
  • uneasy,
  • jittery,
  • restless,
  • solicitous,
  • watchful,
  • unquiet,
  • shivery,
  • concerned,
  • wired,
  • shaky,
  • uptight*,
  • spooked,
  • overwrought,
  • shaking,
  • afraid,
  • shook up,
  • disturbed,
  • scared,
  • wreck*,
  • fretful,
  • distressed,
  • worried sick,
  • fearful,
  • nervy,
  • fidgety,
  • antsy*.
  •drawn (adjective)
  • fraught,
  • starved,
  • thin,
  • harassed,
  • haggard,
  • tired,
  • worn,
  • Sapped,
  • peaked,
  • Harrowed,
  • pinched.
  •firm (adjective)
  • secured,
  • spiked,
  • immovable,
  • embedded,
  • Soldered,
  • substantial,
  • settled,
  • closed,
  • secure,
  • braced,
  • stationary,
  • tenacious,
  • strong,
  • immobile,
  • fastened,
  • rooted,
  • durable,
  • sound,
  • motionless,
  • set,
  • bolted,
  • tightened,
  • Screwed,
  • mounted,
  • unshakable,
  • robust,
  • Anchored,
  • Welded,
  • solid,
  • Cemented,
  • Nailed,
  • petrified,
  • sturdy.
  •inflexible (adjective)
  • inelastic,
  • unbending,
  • Immalleable,
  • hard.
  •nervous (adjective)
  • hysterical,
  • unstrung,
  • ruffled,
  • uptight,
  • restive,
  • agitated,
  • shy,
  • timid,
  • annoyed,
  • shrinking,
  • fitful,
  • bothered,
  • timorous,
  • upset,
  • fussy*,
  • sensitive,
  • volatile,
  • edgy,
  • snappish,
  • weak,
  • hesitant,
  • worried,
  • skittish,
  • flustered,
  • shaky*,
  • on edge,
  • twitchy,
  • querulous,
  • high-strung,
  • irritable,
  • neurotic,
  • excitable.
  •stiff (adjective)
  • ossified,
  • hardened,
  • stark,
  • brittle,
  • chilled,
  • indurate,
  • contracted,
  • solidified,
  • wooden,
  • graceless,
  • resistant,
  • mechanical,
  • Incompliant,
  • annealed,
  • stony,
  • thickened,
  • jelled,
  • ungraceful,
  • congealed,
  • unsupple,
  • refractory,
  • Numbed,
  • thick,
  • frozen,
  • benumbed.
  •strained (adjective)
  • embarrassed,
  • self-conscious,
  • uncomfortable,
  • difficult,
  • nervous wreck,
  • constrained,
  • artificial,
  • false,
  • at end of rope,
  • hard put,
  • farfetched,
  • awkward,
  • labored,
  • put,
  • unnatural.
  •taut (adjective)
  • snug.
  •terse (adjective)
  • concise,
  • compendious,
  • crisp,
  • curt,
  • sententious,
  • laconic,
  • condensed,
  • lean,
  • pointed,
  • clipped,
  • trenchant,
  • epigrammatic,
  • precise,
  • elliptical,
  • snappy,
  • pithy,
  • clear-cut,
  • cryptic,
  • incisive,
  • summary,
  • abrupt,
  • boiled down,
  • short and sweet,
  • exact,
  • aphoristic,
  • succinct,
  • brusque.
  •tight (adjective)
  • dense,
  • close-fitting.
  •tough (adjective)
  • hardshelled,
  • un-controllable,
  • re-solute,
  • ex-acting,
  • more hard-shelled,
  • un controllable,
  • hard bitten,
  • ex acting,
  • unforgiving,
  • most hardshelled,
  • most hard shelled,
  • un-compromising,
  • hard boiled,
  • un-alterable,
  • un alterable,
  • hard nosed,
  • in tractable,
  • un-manageable,
  • un manageable,
  • un compromising,
  • un-forgiving,
  • most hard-shelled,
  • un forgiving,
  • in-tractable,
  • most ruffianly,
  • more hard shelled,
  • hardline,
  • hard shelled,
  • more ruffianly,
  • re solute,
  • more hardshelled.
  •trig (adjective)
  • trigger,
  • neat as pin,
  • in good shape,
  • well-kept,
  • in good order.

• n.

  •
  • black,
  • dark,
  • brooding,
  • beatific,
  • absent,
  • curious,
  • bleak,
  • darkly,
  • appealing,
  • bug-eyed.
  •
  • beefy,
  • burly,
  • coltish,
  • brawny,
  • big,
  • compact,
  • full,
  • barrel-chested,
  • built,
  • tighten,
  • bullnecked.
  •
  • fixed,
  • trim,
  • clean,
  • order,
  • steady,
  • spruce.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • shipshape,
  • spick-and-span.
  •
  • tidy,
  • well-groomed.
  •
  • neat,
  • orderly.
  •
  • fast.
  •Other relevant words:
  • lengthened,
  • stringent,
  • hypocrisy,
  • mingy,
  • burst open,
  • intense,
  • constricting,
  • feint,
  • extended,
  • unrelaxed,
  • Bristol fashion,
  • bide,
  • connotation,
  • cockeyed,
  • exist,
  • pulled,
  • nerve-wracking,
  • compressed,
  • pretension,
  • stretch,
  • inseparable,
  • strung up,
  • squiffy,
  • soused,
  • fuddled,
  • stay,
  • keep,
  • stretched out,
  • careworn,
  • distressing,
  • survive,
  • masquerade,
  • distressful,
  • protracted,
  • loaded,
  • tensest,
  • Renitent,
  • mean,
  • tautness,
  • on tenterhooks,
  • all ataunto,
  • endure,
  • potty,
  • sham,
  • pretext,
  • worked up,
  • antsy,
  • besotted,
  • undergo,
  • nasty,
  • facade,
  • pie-eyed,
  • skintight,
  • upsetting,
  • rigorous,
  • tension,
  • smashed,
  • ill-fitting,
  • wound up,
  • allow,
  • live,
  • in trim,
  • overstrung,
  • bind,
  • nervousness,
  • raddled,
  • remain,
  • dwell,
  • well-disciplined,
  • tenseness,
  • quivering,
  • run,
  • indissoluble,
  • stress,
  • crocked,
  • nerve-racking,
  • small,
  • Intervolved,
  • pressure,
  • stressful,
  • severable,
  • taught,
  • soaked,
  • parsimonious,
  • starchy,
  • pixilated,
  • close,
  • deceit,
  • excuse,
  • Ataunt,
  • smart,
  • prolonged,
  • tie,
  • tolerate,
  • dragged out,
  • uncertain,
  • accept,
  • feel,
  • miserly,
  • sozzled,
  • unyielding,
  • Insecable,
  • affectation,
  • sloshed,
  • stiffen,
  • defy,
  • neat as a pin,
  • with bated breath,
  • split open,
  • detain,
  • blotto,
  • mask,
  • break open,
  • wet,
  • rodlike,
  • elongated,
  • Flexed,
  • pretense,
  • Prolongated,
  • persist,
  • straggling,
  • intension,
  • keyed-up,
  • Virgate,
  • pretence,
  • well-organized,
  • wear,
  • adroit,
  • trying,
  • pissed,
  • deception,
  • strain,
  • slopped,
  • drawn-out,
  • tipsy,
  • highly strung,
  • tightly drawn,
  • permit,
  • plastered,
  • not easy,
  • traumatic,
  • take.

Paraphrases for Taut:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    tense.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    strained, tight, intense, fraught, nervous.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    uptight, high-strung.

Antonyms for Taut:

• adj.

  • anxious
    cool, unconcerned, indifferent, content, assured, peaceful, happy, unworried, calm, tranqil.
  • drawn
    relaxed, unstressed.
  • firm
    unsettled, unstable, wavering, moving.
  • inflexible
    flexible, bendable, elastic, soft, resilient, pliant, pliable.
  • nervous
    unafraid, brave, unnervous.
  • strained
    genuine, unforced.
  • taut
    loose, flabby, slack.
  • tense
    limpid.
  • terse
    long-winded, prolix, wordy, lengthy.
  • Other antonyms:
    floppy, lank, flaccid, droopy, yielding, supple, drooping, stretchy, springy, hanging, limp, sagging.

• Other antonyms:

  • n.
    decompress, loosen up, make relaxed, relax, slow down, unbend, unlax, unstrain, unwind.

Taut Sentence Examples:

• When I got them down as deep as I could, I would tighten the chains, till they bore taut on the timbers.

• He wanted his mind to stay cold and taut, and he was afraid to face the temptation of her eyes and her soft white arms.

Homophones for Taut:

• taught.