straitenedadj.

/ˈstreɪt(ə)nd/

Etymology: < straiten v. + -ed suffix¹.

In various senses of the verb.

a. Contracted, narrowed; insufficiently spacious.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > [adjective] > confined, restricted, or insufficiently spacious

narroweOE

straitc1290

unwidea1400

scanta1533

angust1540

roomless1548

pinched?1567

niggard1595

strict1598

straitened1602

pinching1607

incommodious1615

incapacious1635

over-strait1645

straiteninga1652

cramp1786

bottleneck1854

cramped1884

tight1937

claustrophobic1946

claustrophobe1954

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective] > of small or scanty extent

narroweOE

straitc1290

scarce1297

scanta1533

pinched?1567

strict1598

thrifty1601

straitened1602

scanty1701

scrimped?c1716

pookit1818

poky1828

postage-stamp-sized1852

poking1864

boxy1870

pocket handkerchief1910

postage stamp1937

1602 J. Willis Art Stenogr. sig. A5 Stenographie, signifieth a straightned or compendious Writing.

1694 J. Addison tr. Virgil Fourth Georgic in Poems iv. 375 First then a close contracted space of ground, With streighten'd walls and low-built roof they found.

1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 246 The king's lion..traversed the limits of his straitened dominions.

1799 H. Lee Canterbury Tales III. 148 He was..in lodgings rather straitened and inconvenient.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 81 About half an inch within the orifice of the urethra, at which part the passage feels peculiarly straitened.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall in Poems (new ed.) II. 98 Cursed be the gold that gilds the straiten'd forehead of the fool!

1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xxiii. 601 Anticipations of excessive demand or of exceedingly straitened supply.

1890 R. Bridges Shorter Poems iii. vii We steered Along a straitened channel flecked with foam.

†b. Limited in power or range of action.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [adjective]

narroweOE

restraint1445

modifiedc1485

limitate1541

restricteda1550

strait-laced1549

scant1556

circumcised1561

contract1561

restrained1578

determinate1586

limited1590

restrict1597

strict1597

confined1605

determineda1616

limitary1620

prescript1645

modificated1646

circumscribed1647

conscribed1654

limitated1654

reserved1654

coarctated1655

straiteneda1665

unabsolute1694

stinted1710

bounded1711

contracted1711

cramped1741

special1815

municipal1856

fine-cut1894

stingy1927

a1665 J. Goodwin Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόv (1670) xiii. 365 They that bring up such a report as this upon the Spirit, as that he is but a finite Spirit, a created Spirit, a straitned Spirit, what do they do else but [etc.].

c. Contracted in intelligence or sympathy.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [adjective]

unkinda1393

uncharitablec1485

incharitable1496

strait-laced1546

ingenerous1635

lean-souled1639

ungenerous1641

mean1665

straitened1712

strait1760

strait-hearted1760

little1766

unmagnanimous1788

narrowing1827

shoddy1918

the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > narrow-mindedness > [adjective]

narrowed1599

narrow-minded1611

narrow1612

small1619

narrow1622

tub-brained1634

narrow-souled1641

narrow-spirited1645

narrow-compassed1647

illiberal1649

cat-witted1672

stingy1694

little-minded1707

straitened1712

unenlarged1741

contracted1765

one-eyed1779

unliberalized1793

nippit1808

small-minded1811

narrow-brained1835

narrow visioned1853

thin-minded1862

narrow-gauge1872

one-track1900

narrow-gutted1903

tunnel-visioned1968

1712 D. Waterland Serm. in Wks. (1823) VIII. 374 That we may not..grow straitened and narrow in our affections.

1860 J. W. Warter Sea-board & Down II. 400 He has but a limited and a straitened mind who [etc.].

d. straitened circumstances: inadequate means of living, poverty. Also straitened income, straitened means.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > poverty > [noun]

waedlec888

wanspeedc893

wanea1100

wandrethc1175

miseasea1200

povertya1225

lowness?c1225

needc1225

orcostc1225

poorness?a1300

unwealtha1300

defaultc1300

porailc1325

straitnessa1340

poorhead1340

mischiefa1375

miseasetya1382

needinessa1382

misterc1385

indigencec1386

scarcitya1387

noughtc1400

scantnessc1400

necessity?1406

penurya1425

povertnessa1434

exilitya1439

wantc1450

scarcenessc1475

needinga1500

povertiesa1500

penurity?a1505

poortith?a1513

debility1525

tenuity1535

leanness1550

lack1555

Needham1577

inopy1581

pinching1587

dispurveyance1590

egency1600

macritude1623

penuriousness1630

indigency1631

needihood1648

necessitousness1650

egestuosity1656

straitened circumstancesa1766

unopulence1796

Queer Street1811

lowliness1834

breadlessness1860

unwealthiness1886

out-of-elbowness1890

secondary poverty1901

Short Street1920

a1766 F. Sheridan Concl. Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph (1767) IV. 4 They believed she was in streightened circumstances.

1813 Sketches of Character (ed. 2) I. 21 There remained but a straightened income for the widow.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby x. 90 To remind her of her straitened and altered circumstances.

1877 M. Oliphant Young Musgrave I. 7 So far as his straitened means and limited stables permitted.

2. Confined in narrow space; having too little room; closely besieged.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > [adjective] > confined, restricted, or insufficiently spacious > confined in a restricted space

straitened1757

society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > [adjective] > confined

bounda1382

reclusedc1443

incarcerate1528

immurate1593

wall-fastc1593

immured1596

up-pent1600

confined1605

cageda1616

impent1633

straitened1757

hemmed in1894

1757 W. Wilkie Epigoniad vi. 175 Now, when hostile pow'rs With strictest siege invest our strait'ned tow'rs.

1854 S. T. Dobell Balder i. 5 You floors, in whose black oak The straitened hamadryad lives and groans.

3. Drawn tight; tightened.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > types of hardness > [adjective] > taut > made taut

well-haledc1400

spanned1598

braced1633

straitened1667

tensed1676

tightened1760

tended1800

tautened1838

1667 J. Dryden Indian Emperour v. ii. 57 Fasten the Engines; stretch 'um at their length, And pull the streightened Cords with all your strength.

1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. v. 325 My Horses here detain, Fix'd to the Chariot by the straiten'd Rein.

1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 24 Or holds He furious Storms in streighten'd Reins, And bids fierce Whirlwinds wheel his rapid Carr?

4. Reduced to hardship or privation; having straitened means (see 1d).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor > reduced to poverty

broken-fortuned1362

depauperatea1464

peeled?a1513

extenuate1533

withered1561

penured1570

low-ebbed1595

ruined1596

shredded1596

broken1597

beggared1609

impoverisheda1631

necessitated1646

pinched1672

crazy1700

reduced1715

straitened1716

crazed1732

poverty-struck?1750

poverty-stricken?1786

pauperized1807

poverty-smitten1819

distressed1844

out at elbows1885

poverished1900

wiped1977

1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. v. 255 I..thought the Steeds (your large Supplies unknown) Might fail of Forage in the straiten'd Town.

1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. cii. 438 But even in the East a good many [students] come from straitened homes.

1911 G. M. Trevelyan Garibaldi & Making of Italy ii. 36 Sums..which represented the widow's mite in many straitened Italian households.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

单词	straitened
释义	straitenedadj. /ˈstreɪt(ə)nd/ Etymology: < straiten v. + -ed suffix¹. In various senses of the verb. 1. a. Contracted, narrowed; insufficiently spacious. ΘΚΠ the world > space > [adjective] > confined, restricted, or insufficiently spacious narroweOE straitc1290 unwidea1400 scanta1533 angust1540 roomless1548 pinched?1567 niggard1595 strict1598 straitened1602 pinching1607 incommodious1615 incapacious1635 over-strait1645 straiteninga1652 cramp1786 bottleneck1854 cramped1884 tight1937 claustrophobic1946 claustrophobe1954 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective] > of small or scanty extent narroweOE straitc1290 scarce1297 scanta1533 pinched?1567 strict1598 thrifty1601 straitened1602 scanty1701 scrimped?c1716 pookit1818 poky1828 postage-stamp-sized1852 poking1864 boxy1870 pocket handkerchief1910 postage stamp1937 1602 J. Willis Art Stenogr. sig. A5 Stenographie, signifieth a straightned or compendious Writing. 1694 J. Addison tr. Virgil Fourth Georgic in Poems iv. 375 First then a close contracted space of ground, With streighten'd walls and low-built roof they found. 1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 246 The king's lion..traversed the limits of his straitened dominions. 1799 H. Lee Canterbury Tales III. 148 He was..in lodgings rather straitened and inconvenient. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 81 About half an inch within the orifice of the urethra, at which part the passage feels peculiarly straitened. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall in Poems (new ed.) II. 98 Cursed be the gold that gilds the straiten'd forehead of the fool! 1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xxiii. 601 Anticipations of excessive demand or of exceedingly straitened supply. 1890 R. Bridges Shorter Poems iii. vii We steered Along a straitened channel flecked with foam. †b. Limited in power or range of action. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [adjective] narroweOE restraint1445 modifiedc1485 limitate1541 restricteda1550 strait-laced1549 scant1556 circumcised1561 contract1561 restrained1578 determinate1586 limited1590 restrict1597 strict1597 confined1605 determineda1616 limitary1620 prescript1645 modificated1646 circumscribed1647 conscribed1654 limitated1654 reserved1654 coarctated1655 straiteneda1665 unabsolute1694 stinted1710 bounded1711 contracted1711 cramped1741 special1815 municipal1856 fine-cut1894 stingy1927 a1665 J. Goodwin Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόv (1670) xiii. 365 They that bring up such a report as this upon the Spirit, as that he is but a finite Spirit, a created Spirit, a straitned Spirit, what do they do else but [etc.]. c. Contracted in intelligence or sympathy. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [adjective] unkinda1393 uncharitablec1485 incharitable1496 strait-laced1546 ingenerous1635 lean-souled1639 ungenerous1641 mean1665 straitened1712 strait1760 strait-hearted1760 little1766 unmagnanimous1788 narrowing1827 shoddy1918 the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > narrow-mindedness > [adjective] narrowed1599 narrow-minded1611 narrow1612 small1619 narrow1622 tub-brained1634 narrow-souled1641 narrow-spirited1645 narrow-compassed1647 illiberal1649 cat-witted1672 stingy1694 little-minded1707 straitened1712 unenlarged1741 contracted1765 one-eyed1779 unliberalized1793 nippit1808 small-minded1811 narrow-brained1835 narrow visioned1853 thin-minded1862 narrow-gauge1872 one-track1900 narrow-gutted1903 tunnel-visioned1968 1712 D. Waterland Serm. in Wks. (1823) VIII. 374 That we may not..grow straitened and narrow in our affections. 1860 J. W. Warter Sea-board & Down II. 400 He has but a limited and a straitened mind who [etc.]. d. straitened circumstances: inadequate means of living, poverty. Also straitened income, straitened means. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] waedlec888 wanspeedc893 wanea1100 wandrethc1175 miseasea1200 povertya1225 lowness?c1225 needc1225 orcostc1225 poorness?a1300 unwealtha1300 defaultc1300 porailc1325 straitnessa1340 poorhead1340 mischiefa1375 miseasetya1382 needinessa1382 misterc1385 indigencec1386 scarcitya1387 noughtc1400 scantnessc1400 necessity?1406 penurya1425 povertnessa1434 exilitya1439 wantc1450 scarcenessc1475 needinga1500 povertiesa1500 penurity?a1505 poortith?a1513 debility1525 tenuity1535 leanness1550 lack1555 Needham1577 inopy1581 pinching1587 dispurveyance1590 egency1600 macritude1623 penuriousness1630 indigency1631 needihood1648 necessitousness1650 egestuosity1656 straitened circumstancesa1766 unopulence1796 Queer Street1811 lowliness1834 breadlessness1860 unwealthiness1886 out-of-elbowness1890 secondary poverty1901 Short Street1920 a1766 F. Sheridan Concl. Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph (1767) IV. 4 They believed she was in streightened circumstances. 1813 Sketches of Character (ed. 2) I. 21 There remained but a straightened income for the widow. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby x. 90 To remind her of her straitened and altered circumstances. 1877 M. Oliphant Young Musgrave I. 7 So far as his straitened means and limited stables permitted. 2. Confined in narrow space; having too little room; closely besieged. ΘΚΠ the world > space > [adjective] > confined, restricted, or insufficiently spacious > confined in a restricted space straitened1757 society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > [adjective] > confined bounda1382 reclusedc1443 incarcerate1528 immurate1593 wall-fastc1593 immured1596 up-pent1600 confined1605 cageda1616 impent1633 straitened1757 hemmed in1894 1757 W. Wilkie Epigoniad vi. 175 Now, when hostile pow'rs With strictest siege invest our strait'ned tow'rs. 1854 S. T. Dobell Balder i. 5 You floors, in whose black oak The straitened hamadryad lives and groans. 3. Drawn tight; tightened. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > types of hardness > [adjective] > taut > made taut well-haledc1400 spanned1598 braced1633 straitened1667 tensed1676 tightened1760 tended1800 tautened1838 1667 J. Dryden Indian Emperour v. ii. 57 Fasten the Engines; stretch 'um at their length, And pull the streightened Cords with all your strength. 1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. v. 325 My Horses here detain, Fix'd to the Chariot by the straiten'd Rein. 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 24 Or holds He furious Storms in streighten'd Reins, And bids fierce Whirlwinds wheel his rapid Carr? 4. Reduced to hardship or privation; having straitened means (see 1d). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor > reduced to poverty broken-fortuned1362 depauperatea1464 peeled?a1513 extenuate1533 withered1561 penured1570 low-ebbed1595 ruined1596 shredded1596 broken1597 beggared1609 impoverisheda1631 necessitated1646 pinched1672 crazy1700 reduced1715 straitened1716 crazed1732 poverty-struck?1750 poverty-stricken?1786 pauperized1807 poverty-smitten1819 distressed1844 out at elbows1885 poverished1900 wiped1977 1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. v. 255 I..thought the Steeds (your large Supplies unknown) Might fail of Forage in the straiten'd Town. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. cii. 438 But even in the East a good many [students] come from straitened homes. 1911 G. M. Trevelyan Garibaldi & Making of Italy ii. 36 Sums..which represented the widow's mite in many straitened Italian households. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < adj.1602
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