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Definition of taut : 1. Snug; close; firm; secure.
2. Tight; stretched; not slack; - said esp. of a rope that is tightly strained.

Synonyms:

soused, fixed, crocked, beatific, bleak, neat, nasty, wet, drawn, compact, smashed, coltish, rigorous, miserly, pixilated, bullnecked, curious, trig, mean, built, sozzled, soaked, spick-and-span, set, bug-eyed, mingy, pie-eyed, pissed, big, plastered, tightly drawn, absent, loaded, close, orderly, cockeyed, blind drunk, dark, clean, compressed, full, brawny, order, appealing, spruce, stringent, brooding, blotto, unyielding, barrel-chested, tighten, burly, beefy, sloshed, fuddled, shipshape, besotted, well-groomed, tidy, fast, steady, darkly, slopped, black, trim, squiffy

stiff, secure, tense, tight, rigid, snug, firm, dense

Usage examples:

• Otherwise it was still, a deep and taut and somehow waiting stillness. - "Duel on Syrtis", Poul William Anderson.
• His head hummed; the refrain of the taut lines rang louder. - "A Man and His Money", Frederic Stewart Isham.
• Blake's whole body was taut. - "Counsel for the Defense", Leroy Scott.