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Cramped![]() ![]() Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cramped \cramped\ adj.
inconveniently small; restricting movement; -- of living
quarters or workspace; as, cramped quarters; a cramped
office.
Syn: constricted, inconvenient, uncomfortably small.
[WordNet 1.5]
Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 Cramp \Cramp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cramped (kr[a^]mt; 215); p. pr. & vb. n. Cramping.] 1. To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder. [1913 Webster] The mind my be as much cramped by too much knowledge as by ignorance. --Layard. [1913 Webster] 2. To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp. [1913 Webster] 3. Hence, to bind together; to unite. [1913 Webster] The . . . fabric of universal justic is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts. --Burke. [1913 Webster] 4. To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs. [1913 Webster] 5. To afflict with cramp. [1913 Webster] When the gout cramps my joints. --Ford. [1913 Webster] To cramp the wheels of wagon, to turn the front wheels out of line with the hind wheels, so that one of them shall be against the body of the wagon. [1913 Webster] Source: WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
cramped
adj 1: constricted in size; "cramped quarters"; "trying to bring
children up in cramped high-rise apartments"
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 173 Moby Thesaurus words for "cramped": Latinate, angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal, authoritarian, awkward, barred, beleaguered, beset, besieged, bigot, bigoted, blockaded, bombastic, borne, bound, bounded, boxed in, cabined, caged, circumscribed, clamped, cloistered, close, close-fitting, closed, closed-in, compressed, concentrated, condensed, conditioned, confined, consolidated, constricted, contracted, cooped, copyrighted, cordoned, cordoned off, corralled, cramp, creedbound, cribbed, crowded, cumbrous, deaf, deaf to reason, dinky, disciplined, elephantine, enclosed, exiguous, fanatical, fenced, finite, forced, formal, guinde, half-pint, halting, heavy, hedged, hedged about, hedged in, hemmed, hemmed in, hidebound, icebound, illiberal, immured, imprisoned, incapacious, incarcerated, incommodious, inkhorn, insular, isthmian, isthmic, jailed, knee-high, knitted, labored, landlocked, leaden, leaguered, limited, little, little-minded, lumbering, meager, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, mewed, minute, moderated, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, near, nearsighted, nipped, one-horse, paled, parochial, patented, penned, pent-up, petite, petty, piddling, pinched, pinched-in, pindling, pint-sized, poky, pompous, ponderous, prescribed, proscribed, provincial, puckered, puny, purblind, pursed, qualified, quarantined, railed, restrained, restricted, scant, scanty, sesquipedalian, short, shortsighted, shut-in, slender, slight, small, small-minded, smallish, snowbound, solidified, squeezed, stiff, stilted, stinted, strait, straitened, straitlaced, strangled, strangulated, stuffy, tight, tiny, turgid, two-by-four, uncatholic, uncharitable, uncomfortable, ungenerous, unliberal, unwieldy, walled, walled-in, wasp-waisted, windbound, wrinkled, , Matching Word(s) Ramped Camped Craped Tramped Champed Clamped Crimped Crammed Crampet crammed
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