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cramped

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k?æmpt/

Verb

cramped

  1. simple past tense and past participle of cramp

Adjective

cramped (comparative more cramped, superlative most cramped)

  1. Uncomfortably restricted in size, or financially.
    • 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.
  2. Overcrowded or congested.
  3. Tight because of or like suffering a cramp.
  4. Illegible.

Translations

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petite

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French petite f, feminine of petit m (small, little).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /p??ti?t/
  • Rhymes: -i?t

Adjective

petite (comparative more petite, superlative most petite)

  1. (especially of a woman) fairly short and of slim build.
  2. (clothing) of small size.
  3. Small, little; insignificant; petty.
    • 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Systems of the World (Dialogue Two)
      The Earth, the Sun, and Stars, what things are they in nature? are they petite things not worth our notice, or grand and worthy of consideration?

Derived terms

  • petite perception

Related terms

  • petitely
  • petiteness

Translations

References

  • John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “petite”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

  • Pettie, Piette

Esperanto

Adverb

petite

  1. past adverbial passive participle of peti

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /p(?).tit/
  • (Quebec) IPA(key): /p(?).tit/, /p(?).t?s?t/

Adjective

petite

  1. feminine singular of petit

Latin

Verb

petite

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of pet?

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