c. 1600, "too narrow;" 1716, "reduced to hardship;" past-participle adjective from strait (v.). Phrase straitened circumstances recorded from 1766.
straightforward
strain
strainer
strait
straiten
straitened
strait-jacket
strait-laced
strand
strange
stranger
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