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pinched

adjective

1 pinched

Sounding as if the nose were pinched.

synonyms: adenoidal, nasal.

Polish: nosowy

2 pinched

Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold:
— Small pinched faces.

synonyms: cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, skeletal, wasted.

3 pinched

Not having enough money to pay for necessities.

synonyms: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, penurious.

Roget 804: poor, indigent; poverty-stricken; badly off, poorly off, ill off; poor as a rat, poor as a church mouse, poor as a Job; fortuneless, dowerless, moneyless, penniless; unportioned, ... show more

Roget 704: difficult, not easy, hard, tough; troublesome, toilsome, irksome; operose, laborious, onerous, arduous, Herculean, formidable; sooner said than done; ... show more

4 pinched

As if squeezed uncomfortably tight.


Moby thesaurus: attenuated, badly off, cadaverous, careworn, clamped, compressed, concentrated, condensed, consolidated, constricted, contracted, corpselike, cramped, desperate, distressed, down to bedrock, drawn, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated ... show more.

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