Definition for Taut:

• Tight. See Taught.

Synonyms for Taut:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • taut.
  •anxious (adjective)
  • disquieted,
  • overwrought,
  • concerned,
  • fretful,
  • nervy,
  • unquiet,
  • apprehensive,
  • sweating bullets,
  • jumpy,
  • troubled,
  • watchful,
  • spooked,
  • scared,
  • wired,
  • shivery,
  • aghast,
  • careful,
  • choked,
  • Clutched,
  • shaking,
  • restless,
  • jittery,
  • disturbed,
  • afraid,
  • worried sick,
  • basket case,
  • Dreading,
  • solicitous,
  • fidgety,
  • bugged,
  • uneasy,
  • distressed,
  • shook up,
  • fearful,
  • shaky.
  •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.
  •stiff (adjective)
  • annealed,
  • contracted,
  • stark,
  • refractory,
  • mechanical,
  • starchy,
  • unsupple,
  • graceless,
  • resistant,
  • indurate,
  • jelled,
  • ossified,
  • hardened,
  • ungraceful,
  • solidified,
  • chilled,
  • congealed,
  • thickened,
  • brittle,
  • thick,
  • benumbed,
  • frozen,
  • Incompliant,
  • stony,
  • wooden,
  • Numbed.
  •strained (adjective)
  • nervous wreck,
  • hard put,
  • constrained,
  • unnatural,
  • self-conscious,
  • at end of rope,
  • unrelaxed,
  • uncomfortable,
  • awkward,
  • embarrassed,
  • false,
  • put,
  • artificial,
  • farfetched,
  • difficult,
  • labored.
  •taut (adjective)
  • snug,
  • close,
  • Flexed.
  •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)
  • close-fitting,
  • dense,
  • skintight.
  •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)
  • in good order,
  • neat as pin,
  • trigger,
  • well-kept,
  • neat as a pin,
  • in good shape.

• 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.
  •stretched (noun)
  • unyielding,
  • tightly drawn.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • shipshape,
  • spick-and-span.
  •
  • tidy,
  • well-groomed.
  •
  • neat,
  • orderly.
  •
  • fast.

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.