Drawn together or into a smaller or narrower compass; shrunk.Narrow; mean; selfish: as, a man of a contracted soul or mind.Narrow or restricted in means or opportunities; restricted, as by poverty; scanty; needy.Arranged for or disposed of by contract; specifically, betrothed.In gram, and phonetics, shortened by combination or by omission of letters or sounds. See contract, v. t., 3, and contraction, 3.