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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Nearly equivalent or even: close, neck and neck, nip and tuck. See NEAR. 2. Slang. Stupefied, excited, or muddled with alcoholic liquor: besotted, crapulent, crapulous, drunk, drunken, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, sodden, tipsy. Informal : cockeyed, stewed. Slang : blind, bombed, boozed, boozy, crocked, high, lit (up), loaded, looped, pickled, pixilated, plastered, potted, sloshed, smashed, soused, stinking, stinko, stoned, zonked. Idioms: drunk as a skunk, half-seas over, high as a kite, in one's cups, three sheets in (or to) the wind. See DRUGS. 3. Slang. Very closely associated: chummy, close, familiar, friendly, intimate1. Informal : thick. Idioms: hand in glove with. See LOVE. 4. Chiefly British. In good order or clean condition: neat, orderly, shipshape, snug, spick-and-span, spruce, taut, tidy, trig, trim, well-groomed. Idioms: neat as a pin. See CLEAN, ORDER. 5. Based on good judgment, reasoning, or evidence: cogent, just, solid, sound2, valid, well-founded, well-grounded. See GOOD, REASON. 6. Ungenerously or pettily reluctant to spend money: cheap, close, close-fisted, costive, hard-fisted, mean2, miserly, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, petty, pinching, stingy, tightfisted. See GIVE. 7. Stretched tightly: stiff, taut, tense. See TIGHTEN. 8. Having all parts near to each other: close, compact1, crowded, dense, packed, thick. See TIGHTEN. 9. Affording little room for movement: close, confining, cramped, crowded, narrow, snug. See TIGHTEN. 10. Characterized by an economy of artistic expression: lean2, spare. See STYLE. 11. Hard to deal with or get out of: rough, tricky. Informal : sticky. See EASY. 12. Persistently holding to something: clinging, fast, firm1, secure, tenacious. See FREE, TIGHTEN.
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