Words Like PINCHED

We have put together a list of words that are similar to PINCHED.

7 Alternative Words Similar to pinched

1 Adenoidal Adjective      Synonym Words Like Adenoidal
2 Nasal Adjective      Synonym Words Like Nasal
3 Constricted Adjective      Similar Words Like Constricted
4 High Adjective      Similar Words Like High
5 Lean Adjective      Similar Words Like Lean
6 Poor Adjective      Similar Words Like Poor
7 Thin Adjective      Similar Words Like Thin

4 examples of pinched

1 a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys
2 eyes were haggard and cavernous
3 small pinched faces
4 kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration

10 definitions of pinched

1 not having enough money to pay for necessities
2 as if squeezed uncomfortably tight
3 very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
4 sounding as if the nose were pinched
5 Compressed; contracted; narrowed; presenting the appearance of being straitened in circumstances or with cold, want, trouble, or the like: as, a pinched face; a pinched look. Also used occasionally with the meaning of ‘narrowing’ or ‘thinning’ in speaking of mineral veins: as, the vein is pinched.
6 Narrow; reduced in size; “skimped”: said especially of some forms of writing-paper: as, pinched post.
7 Petty; contemptible.
8 Arrested; apprehended.
9 Of long, slender growth, as oysters.
10 Simple past tense and past participle of pinch.
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