Usually means: Stretched or pulled tightly; tense.
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  1. tautly: Merriam-Webster
  2. tautly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tautly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tautly: Vocabulary.com
  5. tautly: Wordnik
  6. tautly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. tautly: Wiktionary
  8. tautly: Dictionary.com
  9. tautly: Rhymezone
  10. tautly: FreeDictionary.org
  11. tautly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. tautly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tautly: Encyclopedia

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▸ adverb:  In a taut manner, tightly, tensely.

Similar:
tensely, tightly, tensilely, tensionally, uptightly, tightley, tattily, tighteningly, tightsome, tautologically, more...

Opposite:
loosely, slackly, laxly

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Similar:
tensely, tightly, tensilely, tensionally, uptightly, tightley, tattily, tighteningly, tightsome, tautologically, more...

Opposite:
loosely, slackly, laxly



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