tight-knit

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tight-knit

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From tight + knit.

adjective more tight-knit · most tight-knit · tightknit

  1. Strongly pulled together or connected, tightly knit. Oral histories describe how ancient angara were tribal and nomadic before settling in cities. Many of them still live in large, tight-knit families and workplaces have a guild-like organizational structure.

    Similar: close-knit

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adj tightly knit

Españolmuy unido
Deutscheng verbunden, eng zusammengeschweißt
Italianoaffiatato

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@misc{tight_knit_2026,
  title = {tight-knit},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tight-knit},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}