Straiter [adjective]

Definition of Straiter:

confined, restricted

Synonyms of Straiter:

● Precise

● Limited

● Slim

● Definite

● Precarious

● Slender

● Tight

● Cramped

● Thin

● Small

● Exclusive

● Set

● Scanty

● Strait

● Confining

● Close

● Fine

● Select

● Scant

● Spare

● Shrunken

● Tapering

● Taper

● Near

● Fixed

● Exiguous

● Meager

● Paltry

● Determinate

● Attenuated

● Constricted

● Pent

● Contracted

● Pinched

● Compressed

● Tapered

● Threadlike

● Incapacious

● Linear


Opposite/Antonyms of Straiter:

● Wasting

● Spendthrift

● Accepting

● Wide

● Liberal

● Generous

● Broad

● Thick

● Poor

● Away

● Unfixed

● Giving

● Open

● Free

● Fat

● Strong

● Loose

● Imprecise

● Tolerant

● Broad-minded

● Unrestricted

● Unconfined

● Far

● Unlimited

● Indefinite

● Inexact


Sentence/Example of Straiter:

The world itself seemed to close about him, straiter than the walls of the room.

She hath been moved from the gaol; and that doubtless meaneth, had into straiter keeping.

The way is strait enough in itself without any effort of ours to make it straiter.

The Chambranle or Door-Case grew straiter and straiter towards the top, viz.

Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward a straiter resemblance to the Average Man than he hath to himself.

It must be a way narrower and straiter than we conceive; for "the righteous shall scarcely be saved."

To a straiter ward were we comitted: that which we haue imputatiuely transgressed must beaunswered.

The Souldier's grown too sawcy, You must tie him straiter up.Arch.

This is ten thousand times a straiter place to be in than when I played the Count von Len.

Shall have to winter in straiter quarters, behind the Mulda, not astride of it as formerly; that is all.