straitened
adjective
[ ˈstreɪtnd ]
• characterized by poverty.
• "they lived in straitened circumstances"
Similar:
impoverished,
poverty-stricken,
poor,
destitute,
penniless,
on one's beam-ends,
as poor as a church mouse,
without a sou,
dirt poor,
in penury,
penurious,
impecunious,
indigent,
needy,
needful,
in need/want,
unable to make ends meet,
down and out,
necessitous,
beggarly,
moneyless,
bankrupt,
in reduced circumstances,
on the breadline,
broke,
flat broke,
cleaned out,
strapped for cash,
strapped,
on one's uppers,
stony broke,
skint,
in Queer Street,
stone broke,
pauperized,
beggared,
• restricted in range or scope.
• "their straitened horizons"
straiten
verb
• make or become narrow.
• "the passage was straitened by tables"
