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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tight-fitting
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
tight-fitting jeans
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cats were mewing sadly in tight-fitting doll clothes.
▪ Her head was shrunken under a tight-fitting felt hat.
▪ Let cool and pack in jars with tight-fitting lids.
▪ Neither barber, in their tight-fitting tee shirts and faded bathing trunks, appeared lacking in backbone or mettle.
▪ Place the couscous in a 2-quart nonstick baking dish with a tight-fitting lid.
▪ Sarella found her eyes fastened helplessly to his muscular physique, outlined so precisely by his tight-fitting riding kit.
▪ She was dressed in trousers and a trenchcoat and had a mane of fair hair beneath a tight-fitting beret.
▪ The sleeves of both garments would be tight-fitting.
Wiktionary
tight-fitting

a. (label en of clothing) snug, skintight.

WordNet
tight-fitting

adj. fitting snugly; "a tightly-fitting cover"; "tight-fitting clothes" [syn: tightly fitting]

Usage examples of "tight-fitting".

This morning Adena was wearing knee-high cavalry boots, tight-fitting red pants and a huge, boxy, loosely woven cropped top.

A bullnecked man in a tight-fitting black jacket opened the passenger-side door for a petite, blond woman about my age.

It resembled nothing so much as a pair of tight-fitting goggles, but there was a lot of microcircuitry and even a small computer and power pack in it.

The man she was speaking with wore a white turban and a long, shimmering multicolored cape over a barely glimpsed tight-fitting body sock.

He was dressed in a tight-fitting jumpsuit made of a white, metallic fabric, with a wide collar on which was set a metal device with a blue stone, and from which hung short robes cut in a vestlike pattern.

They were dressed in tight-fitting footed jumpsuits of a dark shimmery material, with no insignia or other ornamentation that Pheylan could see.

Below, while Michel was being robed in a tight-fitting gym suit of bright orange and then in Lancelot, they had discussed briefly what was to be tried today, simple free flight in space.

They wore the long, tight-fitting silk robes of Shou Lung mandarins, the bureaucrats of that great empire.

All the more did he admire the officer, who in spite of his tight-fitting full-dress uniform coat, amply befrogged and weighed down by epaulettes, was pursuing his subject with such enthusiasm and, besides talking, was still tightening a screw here and there with a spanner.

Clad in tight-fitting black breeches, soft black leather boots, a white shirt, and a black broadcloth coat trimmed in black satin, he looked every inch a gentleman of quality and wealth.

Still pondering her comments, I thought of Favrielle nó Eglantine and wondered what she would make of Marie-Celeste Stregazza's attire, which, from what I had seen, was the height of Serenissiman stylea long, sleeveless overdress gaudily adorned with appliques and cut-outs, bound beneath the breasts with gold net and worn over a fine silk tunic with tight-fitting sleeves.

Captains Gris and Bleu, dressed in tight-fitting police uniforms, stood erect and motionless behind the trunks of two Appian maples on opposite sides of the winding road motionless except for their right hands, which they flexed at their sides, thumbs caressing the short hollow needles that protruded from the inverted rings.

I knew it well enough to abandon all my tight-fitting clothing and wear only the looser, blousier clothes.

Some of that inaccuracy, of course, was due to the simple fact that the American guns, with their tight-fitting balls in perfect bores, had a greater range than they were accustomed to.

He thought of Carlines riding like a man during the Riftwar, in tight-fitting trousers and tunic, racing with Squire Roland, to the utter horror of her governess.