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Synonyms for pinched
pinched
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Princeton's WordNet
adenoidal, pinched, nasaladjective
sounding as if the nose were pinched
"a whining nasal voice"
Synonyms:
wasted, bony, in straitened circumstances(p), haggard, hard up, penurious, skeletal, emaciated, impecunious, adenoidal, penniless, cadaverous, gaunt, nasal, rhinalAntonyms:
low, fat, low-pitched, unconstricted, richbony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wastedadjective
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"
Synonyms:
haggard, atrophied, in straitened circumstances(p), boney, osteal, diminished, drawn, nasal, senseless, gaunt, adenoidal, squandered, purposeless, penurious, hard up, otiose, penniless, osseous, superfluous, skeletal, cadaveric, cadaverous, careworn, wasted, raddled, bony, impecunious, worn, emaciated, pointlessAntonyms:
rich, low, unconstricted, low-pitched, fathard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances(p), penniless, penurious, pinchedadjective
not having enough money to pay for necessities
Antonyms:
unconstricted, low, rich, fat, low-pitchedpinchedadjective
as if squeezed uncomfortably tight
"her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her"
Synonyms:
wasted, bony, in straitened circumstances(p), haggard, hard up, penurious, skeletal, emaciated, impecunious, adenoidal, penniless, cadaverous, gaunt, nasalAntonyms:
low-pitched, low, rich, fat, unconstricted
Dictionary of English Synonymes
pinchedadjective
Synonyms:
distressed, straitened, reduced, indigent, destitute, needy, poor, necessitous, penniless, moneyless, in need, in want, out of money, out of cash, out of pocket
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#4024 | caught | |
#4609 | drawn | |
#7827 | worn | |
#12176 | trapped | |
#12442 | wasted | |
#15234 | nasal | |
#17621 | skeletal | |
#17833 | diminished | |
#18270 | pointless | |
#24487 | nailed | |
#25250 | punched | |
#31681 | haggard | |
#35057 | senseless | |
#35699 | superfluous | |
#40094 | bony | |
#44263 | boney | |
#45025 | pinched | |
#49528 | gaunt | |
#54883 | squandered | |
#75520 | penniless | |
#89296 | emaciated | |
#112633 | osseous | |
#114369 | cadaveric | |
#148311 | purposeless | |
#149128 | atrophied | |
#194565 | cadaverous | |
#268536 | impecunious | |
#302251 | careworn | |
#313943 | penurious |
How to use pinched in a sentence?
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched.
Anytime Bonnie Herzog sell immediate consumption and people's pocketbooks are pinched Bonnie Herzog could lose sales.
Most of these clients are working with their banks way in advance of redeterminations, so it is compelling M&A, it is compelling asset sales, it is compelling discussions with private equity. But there is a lot of leverage, the most distressed clients know when they are going to be pinched... and are taking the steps to deal with it.
I learned what it felt like to be pinned down and slapped repeatedly, punched so hard the wind would go out of me, dragged by my hair across pavement, head-butted, pinched until my skin broke, shoved into a wall so hard the drywall broke, choked.
The concern with swallowing these toys is that the intestines can become twisted and pinched between the magnets, which can cut off blood flow to the intestines, if that segment of the intestines dies, it may need to be removed. And if not caught early enough, it could even lead to death.
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- TerjepitIndonesian
- roruMāori
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