close-fitting
adj1
Snug, tight, form-fitting.
Of clothing etc.
- Her close-fitting clothes showed off her assets.
- Though this arrangement was a vast improvement on what had gone before, the engine crew were still very conscious of a side wind round their legs, and it was not until 1892 that R. J. Billinton rectified this, when he built his "D3" Class 0-4-4 bogie tank engines Nos. 363-398, and provided them with waist-high close-fitting cab doors.1945 November and December, A. B. MacLeod, “Development of the L.B.S.C.R. Driver's Cab”, in Railway Magazine, pages 335–336:
- Synonyms
- clingy, figure-hugging, as tight as Dick's hatband, body-hugging, bodycon, clingsome, close-fitting, form-fitting, skinny, skintight, slim-fit, slinky, snug, succinct, tight, tight-fitting
- Antonyms
- loose-fitting