taut Definition

tense, tight, drawn, tensed, edgy, stretched, intense, bowline, uptight, jittery, fraught, nervous, uneasy, outstretched, strained, high-strung, supple, sinewy, suspenseful, lithe, sinuous, limber, muscular, sinew, elastic, propulsive, riveting, engrossing, melodramatic, talky, visceral, stagy, songful, incantatory, overfamiliar, pulsating, contrapuntal, overlong, unshowy, snaky, overwrought, punchy, slinky, enthralling, uninflected, digressive, fugal, coiled, spellbinding, rhapsodic, lugubrious, unshapely, textured, pointillistic, sensuous, nerved, gorgeously, unaffecting, lustrous, angular, ponderous, hitchcockian, cadenced, chalk line, elegiac, artful, beethovenian, sturdy, moody, inexpressive, stagey, silken, claustrophobic, expressive, captivating, steely, balletic, nabokovian, improvisatory, resonant, noirish, entrancing, ruminative, dostoevskian, hypnotic, gartered, throatier, jangly, languorous, graceful, evocative, imagistic, featherlike, lumpish, virtuosic, thrilling, kinked, beguiling, revelatory, stringy,