'Taut' definitions:
Definition of 'taut'
From: WordNet
adjective
Pulled or drawn tight; "taut sails"; "a tight drumhead"; "a tight rope" [syn: taut, tight]
adjective
Subjected to great tension; stretched tight; "the skin of his face looked drawn and tight"; "her nerves were taut as the strings of a bow"
Definition of 'Taut'
From: GCIDE
- Taut \Taut\, a. [Dan. t[ae]t; akin to E. tight. See Tight.]
- 1. (Naut.) Tight; stretched; not slack; -- said esp. of a rope that is tightly strained. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Snug; close; firm; secure. [1913 Webster]
- Taut hand (Naut.), a sailor's term for an officer who is severe in discipline. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'taut'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- all ataunto,
- anxious,
- apprehensive,
- ataunt,
- bungup and bilge-free,
- close,
- dragged out,
- drawn,
- drawn out,
- elongated,
- extended,
- firm,
- in suspense,
- in trim,
- keyed-up,
- lengthened,
- neat,
- on edge,
- on tenterhooks,
- on tiptoe,
- orderly,
- pokerlike,
- prolongated,
- prolonged,
- protracted,
- pulled,
- quivering,
- ramrodlike,
- renitent,
- rigid,
- rodlike,
- shipshape,
- smart,
- spruce,
- spun out,
- starched,
- starchy,
- stiff,
- stiff as buckram,
- straggling,
- strained,
- stretched,
- stretched out,
- stretched tight,
- strung out,
- tense,
- tidy,
- tight,
- trig,
- trim,
- under a strain,
- unrelaxed,
- uptight,
- virgate,
- with bated breath,
- with muscles tense