watertight

See also: water-tight

English

Alternative forms

• water-tight

Etymology

From water +‎ tight. Compare Scots wattirticht (“watertight”), West Frisian wetterticht (“waterproof”), Dutch waterdicht (“waterproof, watertight”), German wasserdicht (“watertight, waterproof”), Danish vandtæt (“watertight”), Swedish vattentät (“watertight, waterproof”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔː.tə.taɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɑː.tɚ.taɪt/, /ˈwɔː.tɚ.taɪt/

Adjective

watertight (comparative more watertight, superlative most watertight)

1. So tightly made that water cannot enter or escape.
2. (figurative) So devised or planned as to be impossible to defeat, evade or nullify.

   a watertight contract; a watertight regulation

   • 2021 March 31, Phil McNulty, “England 2-1 Poland: What shape are Gareth Southgate's side in?”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     What if England's defence is finally examined to the full by class opposition at the Euros? Can this rearguard be trusted to remain watertight and protect what a high-quality attack can give them?

Synonyms

• waterfast, waterproof, water-proof, impervious, impermeable

Derived terms

• watertight alibi
• watertightness

Related terms

• airtight, air-tight
• coldtight, cold-tight
• drafttight, draft-tight
• draughttight, draught-tight
• driptight, drip-tight
• dusttight, dust-tight
• gastight, gas-tight
• heattight, heat-tight
• jointtight, joint-tight
• leaktight, leak-tight
• leaktight, leak-tight
• lighttight, light-tight
• liquidtight, liquid-tight
• oiltight, oil-tight
• pressuretight, pressure-tight
• raintight, rain-tight
• sandtight, sand-tight
• soiltight, soil-tight
• weathertight, weather-tight

 

Translations

so tightly made that water cannot enter or escape

• Belarusian: воданепраніка́льны (vodanjepranikálʹny), герметы́чны (hjermjetýčny)
• Bulgarian: херметичен (hermetičen), водонепроницаем (vodonepronicaem)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水密的 (zh) (shuǐmì de), (waterproof) 防水的 (zh) (fángshuǐ de)

• Czech: vodotěsný (cs) m
• Danish: vandtæt (da)
• Dutch: waterdicht (nl)
• Finnish: vedenpitävä, vesitiivis (fi)
• French: étanche (fr)
• Galician: estanco
• German: wasserdicht (de)
• Greek: στεγανός (el) (steganós)

  Ancient: στεγανός (steganós)

• Hungarian: vízhatlan (hu)
• Irish: uisce-obach, uiscedhíonach
• Italian: a tenuta stagna, impermeabile (it)
• Japanese: 水を通さない (mizu o tōsanai), 水密の (すいみつの, suimitsu no)
• Luxembourgish: waasserdicht
• Maori: pihi, whakapiri
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vanntett (no), vasstett

  Nynorsk: vasstett

• Polish: wodoszczelny (pl) m, nieprzemakalny (pl) m
• Portuguese: impermeável (pt)
• Russian: водонепроница́емый (ru) (vodonepronicájemyj), гермети́чный (ru) (germetíčnyj), непромока́емый (ru) (nepromokájemyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: водонепропусан m

  Roman: vodonepropusan m

• Spanish: hermético (es), estanco (es)
• Swedish: vattentät (sv)
• Ukrainian: водонепроникни́й (vodonepronyknýj), гермети́чний (hermetýčnyj)

impossible to defeat, evade or nullify

• Bulgarian: неопровержим (bg) (neoproveržim)
• Finnish: vedenpitävä, aukoton (fi)
• German: wasserdicht (de)
• Russian: непробива́емый (ru) (neprobivájemyj)
• Spanish: sin fisuras, a toda prueba

See also

• Ship floodability on Wikipedia.Wikipedia