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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tight-knit
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a close/close-knit/tight-knit community (=where all the people know each other)
▪ I live in a close-knit community where there's lots of support.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Filipinos have established a tight-knit community in the city.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But, although the core of this group was quite small and tight-knit, the influence of their ideas was widely felt.
▪ The tight-knit mining communities had their own traditions and tales, and in Ayrshire one miner's name was a legend.
▪ The Cajuns are a very tight-knit and family-orientated community.
▪ The management and the team grew together into, in the early stages, a tight-knit organisation.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
tight-knit

integrated \integrated\ adj.

  1. Formed or united into a whole.

    Syn: incorporate, incorporated, merged, unified.

  2. Formed into a whole or introduced into another entity; as, an integrated Europe. Opposite of nonintegrated. [Narrower terms: coordinated, interconnected, unified; embedded; incorporated; tight-knit, tightly knit]

    a more closely integrated economic and political system
    --Dwight D. Eisenhower

  3. Having different groups treated together as equals in one group; as, racially integrated schools. [Narrower terms: co-ed, coeducational; desegrated, nonsegregated, unsegregated; interracial; mainstreamed] Also See: integrative, joint, united. Antonym: segregated.

  4. Resembling a living organism in organization or development. [Narrower terms: organic (vs. inorganic)]

    Syn: structured.

  5. combined. Opposite of uncombined.

  6. having constituent parts mixed to form a single unit. Opposite of unmixed. [Narrower terms: blended[2]]

    Syn: amalgamated, intermingled, mixed.

Wiktionary
tight-knit

a. strongly pulled together, tightly knit.

WordNet
tight-knit

adj. closely and firmly integrated; "a tight-knit organization" [syn: tightly knit]

Usage examples of "tight-knit".

Wilmont did deign to make an appearance, his impeccable family ties allowed him entree into the tight-knit and somewhat hypocritical world of London society.

His cheerful younger brothers, William, Alexander, and George, an inseparable trio, were at school in Nashville, and even when they came home to The Forks, Jass found it difficult to break into their tight-knit group.

The orphanage had found him a bedsitter in the house of a friendly and tight-knit family, and their very closeness towards each other had made him feel even more the intruder.

He had al­ready told me that earlier decadences were overrated, or at least consisted of tight-knit upper classes which didn’t welcome strangers.

For one thing, the paying-off pennant was already being prepared, a splendid silk streamer the length of the ship and more that was to be hoisted the day she went out of commission and all her people, paid at last, changed from members of a tight-knit community to solitary individuals.

But he was all tight-knit, compact, rock-hard muscle, which is usually tougher to ride than a big, rawboned animal, and, being a stallion, he packed on extra heft.

They were a tight-knit group and even Scaf, the most individual of the four, would rarely act without the approval of the others.