tightknitとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From tight +‎ knit.

発音

• 韻: -ɪt

形容詞

tight-knit (comparative more tight-knit, superlative most tight-knit)

1. Strongly pulled together or connected, tightly knit.

   Synonym: close-knit

   • 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Angara Codex entry:

     Oral histories describe how ancient angara were tribal and nomadic before settling in cities. Many of them still live in large, tight-knit families and workplaces have a guild-like organizational structure.

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:tight-knit.

Further reading

• “tight-knit”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.