What is another word for straitened?
310 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ stɹˈe͡ɪtənd], [ stɹˈeɪtənd], [ s_t_ɹ_ˈeɪ_t_ə_n_d]Table of Contents
Similar words for straitened:Synonyms for Straitened:
adj.
•embarrassed (adjective)Other synonyms:
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- difficult,
- thorny,
- delicate,
- intractable,
- critical,
- impossible,
- awkward,
- testing,
- intolerable,
- trying.
- impecunious,
- copyrighted,
- stony-broke,
- promise,
- restricting,
- fixed,
- scant,
- Starched,
- around,
- parsimonious,
- Curtailed,
- in arrears,
- needy,
- in straitened circumstances,
- circumscribed,
- agreement,
- circularly,
- stiff,
- narrowing,
- necessitous,
- forced,
- finite,
- hardly,
- close,
- confined,
- close to,
- broke,
- selfish,
- set,
- skimp,
- formal,
- press,
- methodical,
- pinched,
- nonplused,
- obligation,
- scrimpy,
- aux abois,
- almost,
- poverty,
- thin,
- destitute,
- stranded,
- moderated,
- business,
- overturn,
- unbending,
- constrict,
- involvement,
- stunted,
- encumbered,
- exiguous,
- rigid,
- debt,
- watery,
- placement,
- owing,
- Plaited,
- niggardly,
- routine,
- mean,
- arrange,
- systematic,
- duty,
- rigorous,
- qualified,
- short,
- all but,
- bargain,
- harshly,
- Strapped,
- depress,
- dwarfish,
- hurried,
- meager,
- proper,
- inflexible,
- exact,
- abstemious,
- jejune,
- in narrow circumstances,
- limited,
- attenuated,
- examine,
- overpower,
- Unnutritious,
- stilted,
- confining,
- commitment,
- punctilious,
- on one's uppers,
- ritual,
- undertaking,
- strait,
- narrowed,
- sincerely,
- arrangement,
- bigoted,
- hardship,
- impoverished,
- insolvent,
- spare,
- reduce,
- badly off,
- ceremonial,
- at a loss,
- prescribed,
- miserly,
- reception,
- strict,
- outfit,
- compress,
- constricting,
- number,
- overwhelm,
- appointment,
- unchanging,
- slender,
- in desperate straits,
- accurate,
- Scanted,
- in difficulty,
- solemn,
- everywhere,
- ritualistic,
- responsible,
- sparing,
- rudely,
- squeeze,
- graveled,
- engagement,
- uncertain,
- crowded,
- pressed,
- digest,
- Land-poor,
- broadly,
- reach,
- restrain,
- accountable,
- reduced,
- perquisite,
- underfunded,
- adjust,
- violently,
- restrict,
- beholden,
- compact,
- hard put,
- bankrupt,
- at bay,
- nearly,
- proscribed,
- roughly,
- skimpy,
- Hugged,
- Beggared,
- official,
- generically,
- stuck fast,
- penniless,
- distressed,
- in the red,
- desperate,
- inadequate,
- up against it,
- starvation,
- tightened,
- penurious,
- small,
- participation,
- in want,
- bound,
- normal,
- puny,
- slim,
- disciplined,
- covetous,
- under obligation,
- Squeezed,
- accommodation,
- involved,
- in need,
- constrained,
- something like,
- wiped out,
- in this area,
- bounded,
- subsistence,
- nonplussed,
- consider,
- constricted,
- extort,
- regularly,
- in hock,
- hard-pressed,
- under hatches,
- straight,
- puzzled,
- square,
- illiberal,
- concentrate,
- cramped,
- thrown out,
- demanding,
- lean,
- slight,
- in reduced circumstances,
- spartan,
- tight,
- paltry,
- normally,
- approximately,
- Unmoneyed,
- just,
- oppressed,
- at a nonplus,
- indigent,
- decide,
- limiting,
- narrow,
- stately,
- scrawny,
- contracted,
- orderly,
- or so,
- pro forma,
- thereabouts,
- answerable for,
- established,
- gripped,
- anywhere,
- correct,
- regular,
- formulaic,
- poor,
- simply,
- decree,
- coarsely,
- in bad straits,
- contract,
- restrained,
- watered,
- customary,
- scrimp,
- Dwarfed,
- ascetic,
- standard,
- liable,
- on the edge,
- unprosperous,
- altogether,
- feeling the pinch,
- at a standstill,
- convention,
- constrain,
- hard up,
- treaty,
- ruined,
- stingy,
- bad off,
- deed,
- insufficient,
- indebted,
- scanty,
- up a tree,
- ordinarily,
- in dire straits,
- aground,
- patented,
- deficient,
- reflect,
- skint,
- unevenly,
- exacting,
- weigh,
- austere,
- conditioned,
- financially embarrassed,
- in extremis,
- Stinted,
- commonly,
- meeting,
- generally,
- direction,
- conventional,
- frugal,
- tapering,
- frequently,
- poverty-stricken.
Straitened Sentence Examples:
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The Chairman and most of the Board were a little aghast at what appeared, to a small company that had only recently emerged from straitened circumstances, a very large order.
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It has been seen that the Evangelical clergy were almost to a man debarred from the emoluments of their profession, and lived in very straitened circumstances.
