CRAMPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cramped mean? 

• CRAMPED (adjective)
  The adjective CRAMPED has 1 sense:

1. constricted in size

  Familiarity information: CRAMPED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRAMPED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Constricted in size

Context example:

trying to bring children up in cramped high-rise apartments

Similar:

incommodious (uncomfortably or inconveniently small)

 Context examples 

The second rental she found was the same price as the cramped small apartment she had looked at earlier.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

When I took the steering-oar I had first to unbend her cramped fingers.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I did not know how it was, but though there were only two of us, we were at once always cramped for room, and yet had always room enough to lose everything in.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We had all moved out into the moonlight, and there was Champion Harrison with a big bundle on his arm,—and such a look of amazement upon his face as would have brought a smile back on to mine had my heart not still been cramped with fear.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A selfish pursuit had cramped and narrowed me, until your gentleness and affection warmed and opened my senses; I became the same happy creature who, a few years ago, loved and beloved by all, had no sorrow or care.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

After a season of darkness and struggling, light broke and relief fell: my cramped existence all at once spread out to a plain without bounds—my powers heard a call from heaven to rise, gather their full strength, spread their wings, and mount beyond ken.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It is not a scrambling collection of low single rooms, with as many roofs as windows; it is not cramped into the vulgar compactness of a square farmhouse: it is a solid, roomy, mansion-like looking house, such as one might suppose a respectable old country family had lived in from generation to generation, through two centuries at least, and were now spending from two to three thousand a year in.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

My heart was cramped with my fears, and I winced at every blow, yet I was conscious also of an absolute fascination, with a wild thrill of fierce joy and a certain exultation in our common human nature which could rise above pain and fear in its straining after the very humblest form of fame.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An indescribable character of faded gentility that attached to the house I sought, and made it unlike all the other houses in the street—though they were all built on one monotonous pattern, and looked like the early copies of a blundering boy who was learning to make houses, and had not yet got out of his cramped brick-and-mortar pothooks—reminded me still more of Mr. and Mrs. Micawber.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It cramped and hurt me so, that it made me perfectly miserable; but if I moved in the least, and made a glass that was in the basket rattle against something else (as it was sure to do), she gave me the cruellest poke with her foot, and said, Come, don't YOU fidget.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)