circumstanced
circumstanced is the simple past and past participle of circumstance.
Meaning of circumstance
Verb
circumstance (third-person singular simple present circumstances, present participle circumstancing, simple past and past participle circumstanced)
- To place in a particular situation, especially with regard to money or other resources.
- Frank muttered something. Tidings had in some shape reached his ears that his father was not comfortably circumstanced as regarded money.1858, Anthony Trollope, “Matrimonial Prospects”, in Doctor Thorne. […], volume I, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 184
Adjective
circumstanced (not comparable)
- In the specified situation or circumstances.
- Fortunately, I come from a family that was well circumstanced.
- It might have been supposed that, given a girl rapidly becoming good-looking, comfortably circumstanced, and for the first time in her life commanding ready money, she would go and make a fool of herself by dress.1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Oxford World's Classics, Oxford University Press, 1987, Chapter XIV, p. 88
Words formed from circumstanced
Questions about circumstanced
- What does circumstanced mean?
- Circumstanced means in the specified situation or circumstances.
- What is circumstanced the simple past and past participle of?
- Circumstanced is the simple past and past participle of circumstance.
- What part of speech is circumstanced?
- Circumstanced is an adjective.
Words near circumstanced in the dictionary
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