Pinched
[adj] 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"
[adj] sounding as if the nose were pinched; "a whining nasal voice"
[adj] as if squeezed uncomfortably tight; "her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her"
[adj] not having enough money to pay for necessities
Related Information
Synonyms
adenoidal, bony, cadaverous, constricted, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, hard up, high, high-pitched, impecunious, in straitened circumstances(p), lean, nasal, penniless, penurious, poor, skeletal, thin, wasted
Related Terms
attenuated, badly off, cadaverous, careworn, clamped, compressed, concentrated, condensed, consolidated, constricted, contracted, corpselike, cramped, desperate, distressed, down to bedrock, drawn, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, embarrassed, feeling the