Meanings
alternative skin tight · alternative skin-tight
- not comparableConforming tightly to the body, snug against the skin.
I'mma get your heart racing / In my skin-tight jeans / Be your teenage dream tonight
2010, “Teenage Dream”, performed by Katy Perry1 more example
He'd have to stow the Gun somewhere; no place to conceal it in the skintight bodysuit.
1967 May, William F. Nolan, George Clayton Johnson, Logan's Run, Bantam, published 1976, →ISBN, page 25Synonyms: body-hugging, figure-hugging, as tight as Dick's hatband, body-hugging, bodycon, clingsome, clingy, close-fitting
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveConforming tightly to the body, snug against the skin.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveso tight as to cling to the skin
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian прилепнал, тесен
- прилепнал (prilepnal)conforming tightly to the body
- тесен (tesen)conforming tightly to the body
Chinese Mandarin 緊身 /紧身
- 緊身 /紧身 (jǐnshēn)conforming tightly to the body
Finnish ihonmyötäinen
- ihonmyötäinenconforming tightly to the body
French moulant, serrant
- moulantconforming tightly to the body
- serrantconforming tightly to the body
German hauteng
- hautengconforming tightly to the body
Polish obcisły
- obcisłyconforming tightly to the body
Cite this entry
skintight. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skintight
“skintight.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skintight. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “skintight,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skintight.
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