straitened

Speech parts

1. straitened - Adjective

2. straitened - Verb

Meaning

of Straiten

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

short difficult limited hard poor broke narrow tough bankrupt impoverished dire distressed needy destitute penniless
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Antonyms

expand extend fat comfortable affluent expansive
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Phrases with the word

man in straitened circumstances

Anagrams

reinstated

Examples

But when he says it's regrettable that people are in straitened economic circumstances, and he tries to arrange his face to suggest he feels your pain, it looks as if his entire being is recoiling at the effort to connect with the unwashed masses. Source: Internet

Though weary, it is not tired; though pressed it is not straitened; though alarmed, it is not confounded; but as a living flame it forces itself upwards and securely passes through all. Source: Internet

We will see that student activists too often favor attempts at discussion are met with clamorous obloquy; that the scope of acceptable debate risks being profoundly straitened when the wrong speaker is invited to campus. Source: Internet

TheFinancial Timesis correct in characterizing intervention under the Obama administration as one that "meshes the moral and political impulses of American policy with the current straitened economic times." Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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