- TAUT
- Sans slack
- Lacking slack
- Like guitar strings, preferably
- Like a bowstring
- Like a trampoline's surface
- Stretched
- Fully stretched
- Pulled tight
- Far from slack
- Gripping
- Having no slack
- Strung with tension
- Having little slack
- All wound up
- Sans any slack
- Free of slack
- Tightly drawn
- Like a drumhead
- Stretched tightly
- Not slack
- Without wrinkles
- Emotionally strained
- Good descriptor for a thriller
- Like guitar strings, often
- Without much give
- Stretched to the limit
- Stretched to the max
- Drawn as much as possible
- Not giving at all
- Drawn to one's limits
- Like properly strung guitar strings
- High-strung
- Tightly stretched
- Like a tuned guitar string
- Like a circus high wire
- Stretched tight
- Lacking play
- Lacking slackness
- Subjected to great tension
- Having no play
- Without give
- Suspenseful
- Keyed up
- Far from flabby
- Not drooping
- Tightly strung
- Wired tightly
- Without any give
- Wound up
- Drawn tight
- Tightly wound
- Without slack
- Hardly relaxed
- Tense
- Tight
- Stiff
- Like a guitar string
- Stretched just short of the breaking point
- Playless?
- Not at all droopy
- Ready to snap
- Like a well-written mystery
- Like newly Botoxed skin
- Opposite of slack
- Not at all slack
- Like guitar strings
- Like strung guitar strings
- Showing strain
- At a breaking point, maybe
- Stretched thin
- Fine-strung
- Slackless
- With no slack
- Not at all loose
- What drumheads need to be
- Not relaxed
- Fully extended
- Rigid
- In good order
- Strung tightly
- Spy-movie review adjective
- Stretched fully
- Like a tug-of-war rope
- Like concise writing
- Not at all redundant
- Hard drawn.
- Snug.
- Tensely stretched.
- Snugly tight.
- Firm.
- Shipshape.
- Snug; tidy.
- Kept in proper order.
- Trim.
- Strained.
- Nervous.
- Run a ___ ship.
- Not flabby
- Kind of ship
- Well disciplined
- Strung tight
- Not loose or flabby
- Showing stress
- Tensed
- Like a high wire
- Tight as a drum
- Under tension
- Very tight
- Like a tightrope
- Smart
- Like some nerves
- Unbending
- Unrelaxed
- Ex-lax?
- Unloose
- Allowing no play
- Having little give
- Like a rope during a tug-of-war match
- Like faces after face-lifts
- Ready to snap, maybe
- Like a well-written thriller
- Like a tightrope, more so than a slackline
- Not at all lax
- Not sagging at all
- Like drumheads
- Opposite of relaxed
- Stretched out
- Full of tension
- Like violin strings
- Opposite of loose
- Like a tightrope, ideally
- Like chains supporting chandeliers
- Tension-filled
- Like a post-Botox face
- Like a well-executed thriller
- Opposite of saggy
- Like a tense thriller
- Like a newly-installed fan belt
- Stretched to the limits
- Not loose
- What a good fan belt should be
- Like a fan belt
- Like a tuned drumhead
- With little slack
- Without much slack
- Tightly drawn, like a rope
- Tight, as a drum skin
- Drawn tightly
- Stretched tightly, as a guitar string
- All stretched out
- Tightly pulled
- Completely stretched
- Not lax
- Near the breaking point
- Without a wrinkle
- Like a tabor top?
- Hardly loose
- Like a drum
- Like a nicely tuned guitar string
- Like a tuned piano string
- Like skin after Botox treatment
- Like a tuned string
- Not at all saggy
- Tight, as a drum head
- Not hanging loose
- Like a rope that's not slack
- Like a slacklining rope
- Like a tightly stretched rope
- Under strain
- Allowing no wiggle room
- Like bass strings
- Concise and controlled
- Having no play, say
- Like many a thriller
- Filled with suspense
- Filled with tension
- Like a well-crafted whodunit
- Like many thrillers
- Quite suspenseful
- Like skin after Botox
- Lacking give
- Like a suspenseful thriller
- Like a tripwire
