'Cramped' definitions:
Definition of 'cramped'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Constricted in size; "cramped quarters"; "trying to bring children up in cramped high-rise apartments"
Definition of 'Cramped'
From: GCIDE
- Cramp \Cramp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cramped (kr[a^]mt; 215); p. pr. & vb. n. Cramping.]
- 1. To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder. [1913 Webster]
- The mind my be as much cramped by too much knowledge as by ignorance. --Layard. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Hence, to bind together; to unite. [1913 Webster]
- The . . . fabric of universal justic is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To afflict with cramp. [1913 Webster]
- When the gout cramps my joints. --Ford. [1913 Webster]
- To cramp the wheels of wagon, to turn the front wheels out of line with the hind wheels, so that one of them shall be against the body of the wagon. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'cramped'
From: GCIDE
- cramped \cramped\ adj. inconveniently small; restricting movement; -- of living quarters or workspace; as, cramped quarters; a cramped office.
- Syn: constricted, inconvenient, uncomfortably small. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'cramped'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- angustifoliate,
- angustirostrate,
- angustisellate,
- angustiseptal,
- authoritarian,
- awkward,
- barred,
- beleaguered,
- beset,
- besieged,
- bigot,
- bigoted,
- blockaded,
- bombastic,
- borne,
- bound,
- bounded,
- boxed in,
- cabined,
- caged,
- circumscribed,
- clamped,
- cloistered,
- close,
- close-fitting,
- closed,
- closed-in,
- compressed,
- concentrated,
- condensed,
- conditioned,
- confined,
- consolidated,
- constricted,
- contracted,
- cooped,
- copyrighted,
- cordoned,
- cordoned off,
- corralled,
- cramp,
- creedbound,
- cribbed,
- crowded,
- cumbrous,
- deaf,
- deaf to reason,
- dinky,
- disciplined,
- elephantine,
- enclosed,
- exiguous,
- fanatical,
- fenced,
- finite,
- forced,
- formal,
- guinde,
- half-pint,
- halting,
- heavy,
- hedged,
- hedged about,
- hedged in,
- hemmed,
- hemmed in,
- hidebound,
- icebound,
- illiberal,
- immured,
- imprisoned,
- incapacious,
- incarcerated,
- incommodious,
- inkhorn,
- insular,
- isthmian,
- isthmic,
- jailed,
- knee-high,
- knitted,
- labored,
- landlocked,
- Latinate,
- leaden,
- leaguered,
- limited,
- little,
- little-minded,
- lumbering,
- meager,
- mean,
- mean-minded,
- mean-spirited,
- mewed,
- minute,
- moderated,
- narrow,
- narrow-hearted,
- narrow-minded,
- narrow-souled,
- narrow-spirited,
- near,
- nearsighted,
- nipped,
- one-horse,
- paled,
- parochial,
- patented,
- penned,
- pent-up,
- petite,
- petty,
- piddling,
- pinched,
- pinched-in,
- pindling,
- pint-sized,
- poky,
- pompous,
- ponderous,
- prescribed,
- proscribed,
- provincial,
- puckered,
- puny,
- purblind,
- pursed,
- qualified,
- quarantined,
- railed,
- restrained,
- restricted,
- scant,
- scanty,
- sesquipedalian,
- short,
- shortsighted,
- shut-in,
- slender,
- slight,
- small,
- small-minded,
- smallish,
- snowbound,
- solidified,
- squeezed,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- stinted,
- strait,
- straitened,
- straitlaced,
- strangled,
- strangulated,
- stuffy,
- tight,
- tiny,
- turgid,
- two-by-four,
- uncatholic,
- uncharitable,
- uncomfortable,
- ungenerous,
- unliberal,
- unwieldy,
- walled,
- walled-in,
- wasp-waisted,
- windbound,
- wrinkled