close-knit

Modifies a noun

• community: We were a close-knit community about the time of the ending of the First World War.
• circle: The Usage The given name in Korea is rarely used within the close-knit family circle.
• team: You will be working within a close-knit team, .. .
• atmosphere: College is a friendly, close-knit atmosphere, which really feels like home in the middle of a strange city.
• group: They probably don't want to be in a very insignificant position or to be the newcomer in an already close-knit group.

Modifying Another Word

• extremely: For some families, a year can feel like a lifetime... The Harrisons are a large and extremely close-knit family.
• wonderfully: We have such a wonderfully close-knit group of friends who all did their bit to make this an event to remember.
• surprisingly: In the 1960s the American sociologist Stanley Milgram set out to investigate the nature of the surprisingly close-knit human world.
• traditionally: Clydach Vale has been a traditionally close-knit community and also a politically active one.
• relatively: The kind of research for which my brief anthropological training had fitted me was the study of a small and relatively close-knit community.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Most ab initio groups quickly become very close-knit since students see each other almost every day.