Not as lax

Usage examples of tauter.

The air within the balloon became stuffier and stuffier, and the skin grew tauter and tauter as the pressure outside reduced, but the trapped warmth of my body combated the cold which stung my fingers whenever I inadvertently touched the skin.

She had cinched it tight, to better emphasize the swell of her hips and to pull the fabric tauter over her breasts.

He was still striving to seem relaxed and limp in his chair, and yet he was growing tauter and tauter.

I quivered harder, my body growing tauter and tauter, like a bow waiting to be shot.