cramped
/kɹæmpt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.28 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of cramp
adj
Uncomfortably restricted in size or space, or financially.
adj
Overcrowded or congested.
adj
Tight because of or like suffering a cramp.
adj
Example Sentences
- "Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either."
- "Since then we have had the opportunity to travel in them and were much impressed by the internal styling and comfort of the seating (with the minor exception of the single seats which have been tucked in longitudinally alongside some of the entrance vestibules and which are so cramped that only the slimmest of female figures could be comfortable in them; the space they occupy would have been better utilised to increase standing room)."
- "But the design of the '730s' wasn't just about the seating formation. The Metro-style walkthrough interior was chosen because it is much more spacious than the '323s', where the interconnecting doors between carriages, narrow central aisle, and cramped areas by the passenger doors had been deemed particularly constraining."
Inflected Forms
more cramped (comparative)
most cramped (superlative)