Found 3 items, similar to Straiter.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: strait selat
English → English (WordNet) Definition: strait strait n 1: a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water [syn: sound] 2: a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs [syn: pass, straits] strait adj : strict and severe; “strait is the gate”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Straiter Strait \Strait\, a. [Compar. Straiter; superl. Straitest.] [OE. straight, streyt, streit, OF. estreit, estroit, F. ['e]troit, from L. strictus drawn together, close, tight, p. p. of stringere to draw tight. See 2nd Strait, and cf. Strict.] 1. Narrow; not broad. [1913 Webster] Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. --Matt. vii. 14. [1913 Webster] Too strait and low our cottage doors. --Emerson. [1913 Webster] 2. Tight; close; closely fitting. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. Close; intimate; near; familiar. [Obs.] “A strait degree of favor.” --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster] 4. Strict; scrupulous; rigorous. [1913 Webster] Some certain edicts and some strait decrees. --Shak. [1913 Webster] The straitest sect of our religion. --Acts xxvi. 5 (Rev. Ver.). [1913 Webster] 5. Difficult; distressful; straited. [1913 Webster] To make your strait circumstances yet straiter. --Secker. [1913 Webster] 6. Parsimonious; niggargly; mean. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait, And so ingrateful, you deny me that. --Shak. [1913 Webster]