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WATERTIGHT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does watertight mean?
• WATERTIGHT (adjective)
The adjective WATERTIGHT has 2 senses:
1. not allowing water to pass in or out
2. without flaws or loopholes
Familiarity information: WATERTIGHT used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not allowing water to pass in or out
Similar:
tight (of such close construction as to be impermeable)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Without flaws or loopholes
Synonyms:
bulletproof; unassailable; unshakable; watertight
Context example:
a bulletproof argument
Similar:
incontestable; incontestible (incapable of being contested or disputed)
Context examples
A watertight vessel, often cylindrical, that is usually fitted with a handle, and that may have a lid.
(Pail, NCI Thesaurus)
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