close fisted's Usage Examples:

second meeting between Maurice Smith and Minoru Suzuki, both men wore close fisted gloves in the first round.

has produced but money grabbers, close fisted, grovelling, sneaking men and usurers.

Synonyms:

snuggled, approximate, impending, hand-to-hand, adpressed, appressed, walking, scalelike, close together, side by side, encompassing, at hand, walk-to, juxtaposed, close-set, close-hauled, impendent, immediate, nestled, next, surrounding, contiguous, close set, close at hand, distance, imminent, adjacent, enveloping, ambient, circumferent, proximate,

Antonyms:

distant, past, future, outgoing, preceding,