Straitened

Definition: Straitened

Straitened

Adjective

1. Distressed or embarrassed (especially financially).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "straitened" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Difficulty

Reduced to straits; hard pressed, sorely pressed; run hard; pinched, put to it, straitened; hard up, hard put to it, hard set; put to one's shifts; puzzled, at a loss; (uncertain); at the end of one's tether, at the end of one's rope, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus, at a standstill; graveled, nonplused, nonplussed, stranded, aground; stuck fast, set fast; up a tree, at bay, aux abois, driven into a corner, driven from pillar to post, driven to extremity, driven to one's wit's end, driven to the wall; au bout de son Latin; out of one's depth; thrown out.

Poverty

In want; Noun: needy, necessitous, distressed, pinched, straitened; put to one's shifts, put to one's last shifts; unable to keep the wolf from the door, unable to make both ends meet; embarrassed, under hatches; involved; (in debt); insolvent; (not paying).

Crosswords: Straitened

Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'? (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen)

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This measure did confine every man's possession to a very moderate proportion, and such as he might appropriate to himself, without injury to any body, in the first ages of the world, when men were more in danger to be lost, by wandering from their company, in the then vast wilderness of the earth, than to be straitened for want of room to plant in. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "straitened": be in straitened circumstances ♦ be straitened for ♦ in straitened circumstances ♦ straitened for. Additional references.

Afrikaans

benard (in distress). (various references)

Albanian

i kufizuar (close, insular, limitary, limited, narrow, narrow minded, one sided, one track, one-idea'd, one-ideaed, parochial, qualified, restrained, restricted, Strait, suburban). (various references)

Bulgarian 

затруднен (catching, catchy, embarrassed, hard up, labored, laboured, snookered, troubled). (various references)

Czech

ve finanèní tísni. (various references)

Dutch

van verlegenheid getuigend, van verlegenheid, penibel, pijnlijk (painful, troublesome), pýnlýk (nasty, painful, troublesome), getuigend, gênant, benard (in distress). (various references)

Esperanto

embarasa. (various references)

Finnish

ahdinkotila (distress, predicament, straitened circumstances, straits). (various references)

German

eng (close, close fitting, closely, confined, cramped, intimate, limited, narrow, narrowly, poky, reduced, restricted, snug, tight, tightly). (various references)

Hungarian

szorult anyagi helyzetben levõ. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

零落 (downfall, falling into straitened circumstances, ruin). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

れいらく (downfall, falling into straitened circumstances, ruin). (various references)

Pig Latin

aitenedstray

Portuguese

estorvador, embaraçoso (awkward, cloggy, cumbersome, cumbrous, embarrassing, muff, puzzling), embaraçado (abashed, concerned, constrained, embarrassed, lumbering, self-conscious), em dificuldades. (various references)

Romanian

sãrac (barren, beggarly, destitute, empty, hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, lean, low-lived, meager, meagre, mean, needful, needy, pauper, peeled, penniless, penurious, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, poor man, poverty stricken, scanty, small, sterile, stingy, void), duce lipsã de (be straitened for). (various references)

Russian 

стесненный (cabined, embarrassed, stringent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stešnjen (crowded, pent, squeezed). (various references)

Spanish

restringido (limited, local, narrow, restricted, tied). (various references)

Turkish

sıkışmış (bottled up, jammed, locked, pressed, straitened for, stranded, stuck fast), muhtaç (beggarly, dependent, destitute, hard up, have a weak chest, in need, indigent, necessitous, needy, straitened for). (various references)

Ukrainian

обмежений (bat-minded, borne, confined, contracted, cramp, cramped, finite, illiberal, insular, limited, local, meager, meagre, narrow, narrow minded, one sided, one track, one-ideaed, one-liner, parochial, pinched, provincial, pure, qualified, restrained, restricted, restrictive, scant, shallow-brained, simple minded, small, small-scale, terminate), звужений (diminished). (various references)

adbreviata, adbreviatus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Straitened" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stratened, Stratheden. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: reinstated.

-1 letter: attenders, detainers, intreated, reinstate, resinated, tetanised, transited, trendiest.

-2 letters: andesite, anisette, arenites, ariettes, arsenide, arsenite, attender, detainer, detrains, dinettes, entreats, inserted, insetted, insetter, instated, interest, intreats, iterated, iterates, nattered, nearside, nerdiest, nitrated, nitrates, randiest, ratteens, rattened, readiest, resident, resinate, restated, retained, retasted, retinted, seriated, sintered, steadier, stearine, sternite, strained, straiten, striated, strident.

+1 letter: tearstained.

+2 letters: determinants, detrainments, detrimentals, deuterations, disintegrate, disorientate, predestinate, straightened.

+3 letters: advertisement, deforestation, demonstrative, determinators, deuteragonist, disintegrated, disintegrates, disorientated, disorientates, hereditaments, intermediates, predestinated, predestinates, predestinator, redintegrates, repristinated, retransmitted, underestimate.

+4 letters: advertisements, advertizements, antidepressant, antifederalist, counterstained, decrepitations, defenestrating, defenestration, deforestations, demonstratives, deteriorations, determinations, determinatives, deuteragonists, differentiates, disheartenment, disintegrative, interdigitates, pancreatitides, predestinating, predestination, predestinators, premeditations, reinvestigated, scatterbrained, tenderizations, transliterated, underestimated, underestimates.