taut (adj.)

• anxious
• apprehensive
• close
• drawn
• elongated
• extended
• firm
• lengthened
• neat
• orderly
• prolonged
• protracted
• rigid
• rodlike
• shipshape
• smart
• spruce
• starchy
• stiff
• straggling
• strained
• stretched
• tense
• tidy
• tight
• trig
• trim
• unrelaxed
• uptight