cramped

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹæmpt/
• Rhymes: -æmpt

Verb

cramped

1. simple past and past participle of cramp

Adjective

cramped (comparative more cramped, superlative most cramped)

1. Uncomfortably restricted in size or space, or financially.
   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 715:

     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).

   • 2025 April 16, Pip Dunn, “The future is orange....”, in RAIL, number 1033, page 53:

     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.

2. Overcrowded or congested.
3. Tight because of or like suffering a cramp.
4. Illegible.

Derived terms

• crampedly
• crampedness
• uncramped

Translations

uncomfortably restricted in size

Azerbaijani: darısqal, dar (az) Bau Bidayuh: bidodat Bulgarian: притеснен (bg) (pritesnen), ограничен (bg) (ograničen) Chinese: Mandarin: 狹窄 / 狭窄 (zh) (xiázhǎi)， 狹小 / 狭小 (zh) (xiáxiǎo), 擁擠 / 拥挤 (zh) (yōngjǐ), 狹促 / 狭促 (xiácù), 狹隘 / 狭隘 (zh) (xiá'ài) Dutch: krap (nl) Esperanto: malvasta Finnish: ahdas (fi) French: être à l’étroit, serré (fr) German: beengt (de) Manchu: ᡳᠰᡥᡝᠯᡳᠶᡝᠨ (isheliyen) Maori: pōrorotua Polish: ciasny (pl) Portuguese: apertado (pt) Russian: те́сный (ru) (tésnyj) Slovene: tesen (sl) Spanish: apretado (es), estrecho (es) Turkish: okunaksız (tr), sıkışık (tr) Vietnamese: chật chội (vi)

overcrowded or congested

Bulgarian: претъпкан (bg) (pretǎpkan) Chinese: Mandarin: 狹窄 / 狭窄 (zh) (xiázhǎi)， 狹小 / 狭小 (zh) (xiáxiǎo), 擁擠 / 拥挤 (zh) (yōngjǐ), 狹促 / 狭促 (xiácù), 狹隘 / 狭隘 (zh) (xiá'ài) Finnish: ahdas (fi), täysi (fi) French: surpeuplé (fr), serré (fr), bondé (fr), surchargé (fr) German: beengt (de), überfüllt (de) Maori: pōrorotua Portuguese: abarrotado (pt) Russian: стиснутый (ru) (stisnutyj), стеснённый (ru) (stesnjónnyj) Spanish: abarrotado (es) Turkish: dar (tr), sıkışık (tr)

tight because of or like suffering a cramp

Bulgarian: схванат (bg) (shvanat) French: contracté (fr) German: verkrampft (de) Turkish: kramp girmiş, kasılmış (tr)