[responsivevoice] taut [/responsivevoice] [ tawt ]
The word of the day is ‘ taut.’
The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence.
No, the word is an adjective. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Rigid
2. Tight
3. Stretched
4. Pulled tight
1. Hindi – Tana hua
2. Spanish -Tenso
3. French – Tendu
4. Mandarin – Lā jǐn
1. The cable, taut with the strain, stretched ahead out of sight.
2. The fabric stays taut without adhesive.
3. Now we’re all taut and shipshape and nobody can get aboard to interrupt.
4. Turning back to Dr Shalt, he began to speak in a taut, controlled voice.
5. The scientist and his helper were tense and taut with excitement.
tense, close, firm, flexed, snug, stiff, strained, stressed, stretched, tightly drawn, trim, unyielding, tight, tightly stretched, rigid, not slack, tightened, stiff, sapped, uptight etc
Some antonyms of the word are:
droopy, flabby, loose, slack, relaxed, verbose
Quotation:
When you’re telling taut, tight storytelling that has any kind of built-in plot twist elements, you tend to want to stack everything up on top of itself as opposed to letting things breathe and be languid in terms of the passage of time.
Julie Plec
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