Definition of pinched Pinched
/pɪˈnʧt/ - [pincht] -
We found 5 definitions of pinched from 2 different sources.
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What does pinched mean?
WordNet
Adjectivepinched, pinchedder, pincheddest |
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| pinched - as if squeezed uncomfortably tight; "her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her" | ||
| pinched - not having enough money to pay for necessities | ||
| hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, penurious | ||
| poor unsatisfactory; "a poor light for reading"; "poor morale"; "expectations were poor" | ||
| pinched - very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" | ||
| bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, skeletal, wasted | ||
| lean, thin not profitable or prosperous; "a lean year" | ||
| pinched - sounding as if the nose were pinched; "a whining nasal voice" | ||
| adenoidal, nasal | ||
| high-pitched, high set at a sharp or high angle or slant; "a high-pitched roof" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- pinched (imp. & p. p.)
of Pinch
