tighter vs more tight

Both 'tighter' and 'more tight' are correct forms to compare the degree of tightness. 'Tighter' is more commonly used and considered more natural in English. 'More tight' is also correct but less common.

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tighter

This is a correct and commonly used comparative form of 'tight'.

Use 'tighter' when comparing the degree of tightness between two things. It is the standard comparative form of 'tight'.

Examples:

This dress is tighter than the one I tried on yesterday.
Can you make the knot tighter, please?

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This permits tighter groupings and reduces bounce-outs.
Tamra, you need to play tighter defense.
I sometimes think I should be running a tighter ship.
You're tighter than I'd expect.
Your tails are now poofier, and your corsets tighter.
I've had tighter deadlines than this.
Keeps getting tighter until it pulls all the way closed.
Someone's going to have to get tighter on the Italian.
Jean, I told you tighter.
Needs to be a bit tighter when you go down-hill.
Time is pressing, tighter and tighter.
A little tighter than I expected.
A little tighter than I expected.
Apparently, I need tighter security.
I thought someone looked brighter and tighter.
It sometimes feels tighter than it should.
Apparently, I need tighter security.
Technical advances have led to tighter project cycles.
Bass even seemed a bit tighter.
Calling for tighter security for high activity radioactive sources.

Alternatives:

more tight
as tight as
less tight
not as tight as
tightest

more tight

This is a correct comparative form of 'tight', but it is less common than 'tighter'.

You can use 'more tight' to compare the degree of tightness, but it is not as commonly used as 'tighter'.

Examples:

The new jeans are more tight than the old ones.
She prefers a more tight fit for her clothes.

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Columbus and FAR Networks become more and more tight, optimizing together the potential of co-creating for developing innovative solutions for healthcare.
Only in this way a relationship of collaboration more and more tight and based on mutual confidence can be established.
All the while, even under more tight security, the Vice President is sworn in as the nation's new commander-in-chief.
In the actinomycete Frankia, the hopanoids in diazovesicle membranes likely restrict the entry of oxygen by making the lipid bilayer more tight and compact.
The sound is for sure more tight and adherent to the recorded message, without any kind of interpretation or added effect that in some way affected the 01 version.
Most of the time the sound is more tight and precise, with more texture in the bass and a calmer, more confident performance overall.
The International Propeller Club of Naples and Venice have formed an alliance with the objective to recover a more and more tight relationship with the greater actors of the Italian marine cluster.
The bunches are small, sparse and abundant; often, in August, we must prune them. In October in the baskets one perceives the difference between these and those that come from the vineyards facing south, which have smaller and more tight berries.
Also, the slightly more present bass of the former was just added boom and bloom, while the bass of the latter was a little more tight, dry and detailed.
We consider fundamental to continue the more and more tight collaboration with the Agency of Customs, the competent Harbour-office and administrations for the controls, to the aim to obtain an always greater reduction of the station times of the goods .
This year's edition wasn't quite so extreme, with five tiebreaks out of sixteen traditional sets, but it still featured more tight sets than the typical tour event, in which tiebreaks occur less than once every five frames.
Thou fumblest, Eros; and my queen's a squire More tight at this than thou: dispatch. O love, That thou couldst see my wars to-day, and knew'st The royal occupation! thou shouldst see A workman in't.
This shirt is "Modern Fit", this kind of fit is meant to be a little bit more tight on the belly.The buttons are made of real Australian iridescent Mother of Pearl, this detail makes it more valuable and special.

Alternatives:

tighter
as tight as
less tight
not as tight as
tightest

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