Usually means: More constricted, closely or firmly.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word tighter:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. tighter: Merriam-Webster
  2. tighter: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tighter: Vocabulary.com
  4. Tighter, tighter: Wordnik
  5. tighter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. tighter: Wiktionary
  7. tighter: Dictionary.com
  8. Tighter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Tighter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. tighter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Tighter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. tighter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. tighter: FreeDictionary.org
  14. Tighter: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tighter: Legal dictionary
  2. tighter: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tighter: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tighter: Idioms

(Note: See tight as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tight)

adjective:  Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
adjective:  Unyielding or firm.
adjective:  Under high tension; taut.
adjective:  (colloquial) Scarce, hard to come by.
adjective:  (informal, figurative, of persons or relationships) Intimate, close, close-knit, intimately friendly.
adjective:  (slang, figurative, usually derogatory) Miserly or frugal.
adjective:  (of a space, design or arrangement) Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
adjective:  Fitting close, or too close, to the body.
adjective:  Of a turn, sharp, so that the timeframe for making it is narrow and following it is difficult.
adjective:  Lacking holes; difficult to penetrate; waterproof.
adjective:  Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
adjective:  (sports) Not conceding many goals.
adjective:  (slang) Intoxicated; drunk.
adjective:  (slang) Extraordinarily great or special.
adjective:  (slang, British, regional) Mean; unfair; unkind.
adjective:  (of time) Limited or restricted.
adjective:  (obsolete) Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy.
adjective:  (obsolete) Handy; adroit; brisk.
adjective:  (poker) Of a player, who plays very few hands.
adjective:  (poker) Using a strategy which involves playing very few hands.
adjective:  (US, slang, motor racing) With understeer, primarily used to describe NASCAR stock cars.
adjective:  (New York, slang) Angry or irritated.
adjective:  (slang, vulgar) Of either the anus or a vagina of a woman, still intact due to virginity or not engaging in sexual intercourse often.
adjective:  (slang, vulgar) Of a person, especially a woman, having a tight vagina or other orifice.
adverb:  Firmly, so as not to come loose easily.
adverb:  Soundly.
verb:  (obsolete) To make tight; tighten.
verb:  (obsolete, of a vessel) To make water-tight.
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