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Cramped vs Petite - What's the difference?

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Cramped is a related term of petite.


As adjectives the difference between cramped and petite

is that cramped is uncomfortably restricted in size, or financially while petite is .

As a verb cramped

is (cramp).

cramped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (cramp)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.
  • Overcrowded or congested.
  • Tight because of or like suffering a cramp.
  • Illegible.

    • petite

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of a woman: fairly short and of slim build.
  • Of women's clothing: of small size.
  • 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?

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