1 stretched tightly:
taut violin strings * Keep the rope taut. * His skin was stretched taut across his cheekbones.
2 showing that you are anxious or tense:
a voice taut with anger * Her face was taut and pale.
3 (of a person or their body) with firm muscles; not fat:
His body was solid and taut.
4 (of a piece of writing, etc.) tightly controlled, with no unnecessary parts in it:
a taut thriller * the writer's taut prose
tautly adverb
tautness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for taut is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is taut a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, taut is tagged as adjective.
Does taut appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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