| Adj. | 1. | pinched - sounding as if the nose were pinched; "a whining nasal voice" | |
| 2. | pinched - very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare | |
| 3. | pinched - not having enough money to pay for necessitiespoor - having little money or few possessions; "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret" | |
| 4. | pinched - as if squeezed uncomfortably tight; "her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her"constricted - drawn together or squeezed physically or by extension psychologically; "a constricted blood vessel"; "a constricted view of life" | |