What part of speech is pinched?

Pinched can be categorized as an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. pinched is an adjective.

Inflections

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • more pinched
    most pinched
  • Positive: pinched 
  • Comparative: more pinched
  • Superlative: most pinched

What does pinched mean?

Definitions

Adjective

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
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"
pinched - sounding as if the nose were pinched; "a whining nasal voice"

Examples of pinched

#   Sentence  
1. adj. Her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her.
2. adj. Small pinched faces.
3. adj. A pinched sciatic nerve can be excruciatingly painful.
Sentence  
adj.
Her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her.
Small pinched faces.
A pinched sciatic nerve can be excruciatingly painful.

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