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cramped

(kræmpt)
adjective
A cramped room or building is not big enough for the people or things in it.
There are hundreds of families living in cramped conditions on the floor of the airportlounge.
In later years he lived in a rather cramped little flat in Bristol.
Synonyms: restricted, confined, overcrowded, crowded More Synonyms of cramped
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cramped in British English

(kræmpt)
adjective
1. 
closed in; restricted
2. 
(esp of handwriting) small and irregular; difficult to read

cramped in American English

(kræmpt)
adjective
1. 
confined or restricted
cramped quarters
2. 
irregular and crowded, as some handwriting

Examples of 'cramped' in a sentence
cramped

The cramped flat and lack of fresh air worsen her difficulties.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The foyer felt a little cramped with quite low ceilings in areas.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
They refused to let the ambassador leave the cramped room for almost two and a half hours.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The bedroom he remembered as spacious now seemed rather cramped.
Aldiss, Brian Somewhere East of Life (1994)
The stars will spend up to three weeks in the cramped house.
The Sun (2009)
And then you have this business of a lot of plot cramped into a small place.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The workers continue to labor in cramped and inefficient conditions.
Christianity Today (2000)
But his current cramped flat is too small for him to get his wheelchair through.
The Sun (2015)
That ties into my main feeling that the layout feels cramped and a little claustrophobic.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The shortcomings of the cramped rooms are obvious.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
And houses were smaller and more cramped.
Diane Purkiss The English Civil War: A People's History (2006)
The staff were doing their best in horribly cramped and noisy conditions.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Campaigners behind the sickening video yesterday renewed their criticisms of rearing turkeys in cramped shed conditions.
The Sun (2007)
For some time he stared out from the cramped little pulpit and watched the green sea creep past.
Len Deighton Bomber
But she was unable to perform them because there was too little room in the cramped underground tunnel.
The Sun (2008)
The crowded house is going to get a little less cramped and that means a better view of the action.
The Sun (2006)
But it felt small and cramped.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
No room on his cramped balcony.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
She has often turned up on the doorstep of our cramped flat and spent a few nights on the settee before going home.
The Sun (2009)
In fact, the whole flat feels cramped.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
A second family is also followed as they try to expand their cramped 1960s house.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It may be imagined that this Smoking Cabin was rather cramped.
Baxter, Stephen Anti-Ice (1993)
His childhood was spent in a cramped terrace house in Nottingham with a long-term unemployed father.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
It was a rather cramped affair, too, since a horde of schoolboy cricketers had found their way in.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)

In other languages
cramped

British English: cramped ADJECTIVE
A cramped room or building is not big enough for the people or things in it.
There are hundreds of families living in cramped conditions on the floor of the airport lounge.
  • American English: cramped
  • Brazilian Portuguese: apertado
  • Chinese: 狭促的
  • European Spanish: apretado
  • French: inconfortable
  • German: eng
  • Italian: ristretto
  • Japanese: 窮屈な
  • Korean: 비좁은
  • European Portuguese: apertado
  • Latin American Spanish: apretado

Chinese translation of 'cramped'

cramped

(kræmpt)

adj

  1. [room, building] 狭(狹)小的 (xiáxiǎo de)
  2. [conditions] 受限制的 (shòu xiànzhì de)

cramp

(kræmp)

n (c/u)

  1. 抽筋 (chōujīn) (阵(陣), zhèn)

vt

  1. to cramp sb's style (inf) 使某人不能放开(開)手脚(腳) (shǐ mǒurén bùnéng fàngkāi shǒujiǎo)
to have cramp (in one's leg) (腿)抽筋 ((tuǐ) chōujīn)
1 (adjective) 
Definition
closed in
There are hundreds of families living in cramped conditions.
Synonyms
restricted
Every inch counts in this restricted space.
confined
His long legs were cramped in the confined space.
overcrowded
crowded
The street was crowded and noisy.
packed
The streets were packed with people.
narrow
He squeezed his way along the narrow space between the crates.
squeezed
uncomfortable
awkward
closed in
congested
Some areas are congested with both cars and people.
circumscribed
jammed in
hemmed in
Opposites
open
,
large
,
spacious
,
roomy
,
capacious
,
uncrowded
,
commodious
,
uncongested
,
sizable or sizeable
2 (adjective) 
Definition
(of handwriting) small and irregular
Synonyms
small
crabbed
irregular
indecipherable
Her writing is virtually indecipherable.

Additional synonyms

in the sense of confined
His long legs were cramped in the confined space.
Synonyms
restricted,
small,
limited,
narrow,
enclosed,
cramped
in the sense of congested
Definition
crowded to excess
Some areas are congested with both cars and people.
Synonyms
packed (out),
crowded,
choked,
swarming,
overcrowded,
teeming,
jam-packed,
bursting at the seams,
crammed full,
overpopulated,
like the Black Hole of Calcutta,
hoatching (Scottish)
in the sense of crabbed
Definition
(of handwriting) cramped and hard to read
Synonyms
unreadable,
laboured,
squeezed,
awkward,
cramped,
illegible,
indecipherable,
hieroglyphical

Nearby words of
cramped

  • craggy
  • cram
  • cramp
  • cramped
  • crane
  • crank
  • cranky

Related terms of
cramped

  • cramp

Synonyms of 'cramped'

cramped

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