Usually means: Firmly secured, closely or compactly.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word tightly:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. tightly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tightly: Merriam-Webster
  3. tightly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tightly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tightly: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tightly, tightly: Wordnik
  7. tightly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tightly: Wiktionary
  9. tightly: Dictionary.com
  10. tightly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Tightly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. tightly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. tightly: Rhymezone
  14. Tightly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. tightly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. tightly: FreeDictionary.org
  17. tightly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. tightly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tightly: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tightly: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tightly)

adverb:  In a tight manner.
adverb:  (of speech) Curtly in a way that suggests anger or other intense emotion is being contained.

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