pinched

1. 1.

   sounding as if the nose were pinched

   “a whining nasal voice”

   Synonymsadenoidalnasal

   Similarhigh
2. 2.

   very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

   “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”

   Synonymscadaverousemaciatedgaunthaggardskeletalwasted

   Similarthin
3. 3.

   not having enough money to pay for necessities

   Synonymshard upimpecuniousin straitened circumstancespennilesspenurious

   Similarpoor
4. 4.

   as if squeezed uncomfortably tight

   “her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her”

   Similarconstricted

Other forms of pinched

comparative

pinchedder·

superlative

pincheddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pinched

What does pinched mean?

pinched means "sounding as if the nose were pinched". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pinched?

pinched has 1 syllable: pinched. In IPA it is /ˈpɪntʃt/.

What is another word for pinched?

Close synonyms include adenoidal, nasal, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pinched a common word?

pinched is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.