tighter

English edit

Etymology edit

From tight +‎ -er.

Adjective edit

tighter

comparative form of tight: more tight

Adverb edit

tighter

comparative form of tight: more tight
We need to pull that rope tighter.

Noun edit

tighter (plural tighters)

(obsolete or colloquial) A ribbon or string used to draw clothes closer; a tightener.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tighter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)