watertight

English

Etymology

From water +‎ tight.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔː.tə.taɪt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɑː.tɚ.taɪt/, /ˈwɔː.tɚ.taɪt/

Adjective

watertight (comparative more watertight, superlative most watertight)

1. So tightly made that water cannot enter or escape.
2. (figuratively) So devised or planned as to be impossible to defeat, evade or nullify.

   a watertight contract; a watertight regulation

Synonyms

• waterproof, water-proof, impervious, impermeable

Derived terms

• watertight alibi
• watertightness

Related terms

• airtight, air-tight
• coldtight, cold-tight
• drafttight, draft-tight
• draughttight, draught-tight
• driptight, drip-tight
• dusttight, dust-tight
• gastight, gas-tight
• heattight, heat-tight
• jointtight, joint-tight
• leaktight, leak-tight
• leaktight, leak-tight
• lighttight, light-tight
• liquidtight, liquid-tight
• oiltight, oil-tight
• pressuretight, pressure-tight
• raintight, rain-tight
• sandtight, sand-tight
• soiltight, soil-tight
• weathertight, weather-tight

 

Translations

tightly made

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水密的 (zh) (shuǐmì de), (waterproof) 防水的 (zh) (fángshuǐ de)

• Czech: vodotěsný m
• Danish: vandtæt (da)
• Dutch: waterdicht (nl)
• Finnish: vedenpitävä, vesitiivis
• French: étanche (fr)
• German: wasserdicht (de)
• Greek: στεγανός (el) (steganós)

  Ancient: στεγανός (steganós)

• Irish: uisce-obach, uiscedhíonach
• Italian: a tenuta stagna, impermeabile (it)
• Japanese: 水を通さない (mizu o tōsanai), 水密の (すいみつの, suimitsu no)
• Luxembourgish: waasserdicht

• Maori: pihi, whakapiri
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vanntett (no), vasstett

  Nynorsk: vasstett

• Polish: wodoszczelny (pl) m, nieprzemakalny (pl) m
• Portuguese: impermeável (pt)
• Russian: водонепроница́емый (ru) (vodonepronicájemyj), гермети́чный (ru) (germetíčnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: водонепропусан m

  Roman: vodonepropusan m

• Spanish: hermético (es), estanco (es) m
• Swedish: vattentät (sv)

impossible to defeat, evade or nullify

• Finnish: vedenpitävä

• Spanish: sin fisuras, a toda prueba