WordNet
adj. held together as by social or cultural ties; "a close-knit family"; "close-knit little villages"; "the group was closely knit" [syn: close-knit]
Usage examples of "closely knit".
Every detail of their hot, closely knit unit was so intensely beautiful, so terrifying that I momentarily despaired of ever standing up to them.
They were-had been-a nice, closely knit upper-income family without pretensions.
Then we all had a drink together, a closely knit team that had survived the past months.
The individual kingdoms that had been so closely knit turned against each other.
Superb intelligence, superb communications, and a superbly trained and closely knit crew accomplished that.
Unlike their large cousins the hobgoblins, wood goblins lived in closely knit groups.