Definition for Taut:

• Tight. See Taught.

Synonyms for Taut:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • tight.
  •anxious (adjective)
  • apprehensive,
  • fretful,
  • in suspense,
  • disturbed,
  • distressed,
  • jittery,
  • jumpy,
  • overwrought,
  • fearful,
  • nervous,
  • fidgety.
  •drawn (adjective)
  • fraught,
  • haggard.
  •firm (adjective)
  • secure,
  • fast,
  • fixed,
  • tight,
  • strong,
  • steady,
  • set.
  •inflexible (adjective)
  • rigid,
  • hard,
  • Starched.
  •nervous (adjective)
  • timid,
  • edgy,
  • high-strung,
  • on edge,
  • worried,
  • uptight,
  • upset.
  •short (adjective)
  • terse.
  •stiff (adjective)
  • starchy.
  •strained (adjective)
  • unrelaxed.
  •taut (adjective)
  • stiff,
  • stressed,
  • snug,
  • firm,
  • tightly drawn,
  • Flexed,
  • close,
  • unyielding,
  • trim,
  • strained,
  • stretched,
  • tense.
  •terse (adjective)
  • compact,
  • neat.
  •tight (adjective)
  • rigid,
  • secure,
  • stiff,
  • snug,
  • dense,
  • skintight,
  • tense,
  • firm,
  • tight.
  •trig (adjective)
  • neat as a pin.

• n.

  •
  • black,
  • dark,
  • brooding,
  • beatific,
  • absent,
  • curious,
  • bleak,
  • darkly,
  • appealing,
  • bug-eyed.
  •
  • beefy,
  • burly,
  • coltish,
  • brawny,
  • big,
  • compact,
  • full,
  • barrel-chested,
  • built,
  • tighten,
  • bullnecked.
  •
  • tidy,
  • trim,
  • spruce,
  • steady,
  • shipshape,
  • spick-and-span,
  • well-groomed,
  • orderly,
  • fixed,
  • clean,
  • order,
  • neat,
  • trig,
  • fast.
  •stretched (noun)
  • unyielding,
  • set,
  • tightly drawn.
  •taut (noun)
  • tense,
  • drawn,
  • tight.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • shipshape,
  • spick-and-span.
  •
  • trig,
  • tidy,
  • well-groomed.
  •
  • neat,
  • orderly.
  •
  • fixed,
  • spruce.
  •
  • steady.
  •
  • fast.
  •stiff
  • inflexible.
  •Other relevant words:
  • bind,
  • fast,
  • tolerate,
  • spruce,
  • big,
  • soused,
  • parsimonious,
  • sham,
  • endure,
  • stiffen,
  • distressing,
  • tie,
  • fearful,
  • miserly,
  • stress,
  • exist,
  • appealing,
  • stretched out,
  • keep,
  • affectation,
  • accept,
  • sloshed,
  • taught,
  • apprehensive,
  • split open,
  • connotation,
  • soaked,
  • deception,
  • fidgety,
  • barrel-chested,
  • deceit,
  • pulled,
  • tightly drawn,
  • remain,
  • masquerade,
  • excuse,
  • nerve-racking,
  • besotted,
  • live,
  • constricting,
  • spick-and-span,
  • plastered,
  • pressure,
  • overstrung,
  • uncertain,
  • indissoluble,
  • pie-eyed,
  • unyielding,
  • burst open,
  • wear,
  • worried,
  • mean,
  • upset,
  • fretful,
  • pretense,
  • fraught,
  • stressful,
  • hard,
  • loaded,
  • jittery,
  • Prolongated,
  • stretched,
  • black,
  • rigorous,
  • pixilated,
  • inflexible,
  • haggard,
  • in suspense,
  • tipsy,
  • brawny,
  • clean,
  • sozzled,
  • trim,
  • compressed,
  • brooding,
  • nerve-wracking,
  • feel,
  • orderly,
  • Starched,
  • tensest,
  • pissed,
  • traumatic,
  • prolonged,
  • inseparable,
  • take,
  • cockeyed,
  • strained,
  • stringent,
  • defy,
  • pretext,
  • steady,
  • nervousness,
  • jumpy,
  • nervous,
  • intense,
  • uptight,
  • upsetting,
  • keyed-up,
  • burly,
  • smart,
  • Virgate,
  • order,
  • potty,
  • Intervolved,
  • Flexed,
  • beefy,
  • tighten,
  • bleak,
  • drawn,
  • undergo,
  • wet,
  • on edge,
  • coltish,
  • disturbed,
  • highly strung,
  • terse,
  • facade,
  • edgy,
  • squiffy,
  • beatific,
  • on tenterhooks,
  • skintight,
  • protracted,
  • stressed,
  • not easy,
  • mask,
  • stay,
  • fixed,
  • smashed,
  • survive,
  • tenseness,
  • tension,
  • adroit,
  • lengthened,
  • unrelaxed,
  • Ataunt,
  • tough,
  • with bated breath,
  • hypocrisy,
  • stretch,
  • neat,
  • nasty,
  • timid,
  • extended,
  • raddled,
  • drawn-out,
  • elongated,
  • strong,
  • dragged out,
  • pretension,
  • break open,
  • quivering,
  • antsy,
  • ill-fitting,
  • curious,
  • intension,
  • blotto,
  • well-disciplined,
  • well-groomed,
  • feint,
  • darkly,
  • mingy,
  • built,
  • Insecable,
  • severable,
  • crocked,
  • tautness,
  • trying,
  • worked up,
  • distressed,
  • overwrought,
  • well-organized,
  • Renitent,
  • set,
  • starchy,
  • straggling,
  • full,
  • neat as a pin,
  • compact,
  • small,
  • distressful,
  • high-strung,
  • strung up,
  • bug-eyed,
  • anxious,
  • dwell,
  • detain,
  • allow,
  • tidy,
  • wound up,
  • fuddled,
  • persist,
  • bullnecked,
  • careworn,
  • trig,
  • rodlike,
  • absent,
  • strain,
  • permit,
  • shipshape,
  • close,
  • bide,
  • slopped,
  • dark,
  • run,
  • pretence.

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
    flabby, loose, slack, droopy.
  • tense
    limp, limpid.
  • terse
    long-winded, prolix, wordy, lengthy.
  • Other antonyms:
    yielding, lank, elastic, springy, resilient, supple, stretchy, sagging, droopy, flexible, floppy, pliant, drooping, hanging, flaccid, limp.

• Other antonyms:

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

Homophones for Taut:

• taught.