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confinement - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | confinement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imprisonment; restriction |
| Synonyms: | check, coercion, constraint, control, cramp, curb, custody, detention, incarceration, jail, keeping, limitation, repression, safekeeping, bonds, bounding, bounds, circumscription, constrainment, delimitation, immuration, internment, trammels |
| Antonyms: | freedom, liberation |
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| Main Entry: | confinement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
begirt, buried in, cabined, circumscribed, coactive, cohibitive, constrained, determinate, embedded, embosomed, encysted, enwreathing, fenced, hapteric, hedged in, hidebound, ice, immuring, imprisoned, in a ring fence, in custody, in lob's pound, in swaddling, jammed in, laid by the heels, landlocked, lapt, mewed up, nidulant, obvallate, on parole, put up, restrained, restringent, stiff, strait, under lock and key, under restraint, weather, wind
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| Main Entry: | captivity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical detention by force |
| Synonyms: | bondage, confinement, constraint, custody, duress, enslavement, entombment, imprisonment, incarceration, jail, limbo, restraint, servitude, slavery, committal, durance, enthrallment, impoundment, internment, serfdom, subjection, thralldom, vassalage |
| Antonyms: | freedom, independence, liberty, license |
| Main Entry: | childbirth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giving birth |
| Synonyms: | blessed event*, confinement, delivery, labor, parturition, procreation, producing, propagation, reproduction, travail, accouchement, bearing children, childbed, delivering, lying-in, nativity, parturience, visit from the stork |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | contraction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drawing in; shortening |
| Synonyms: | abbreviation, abridgment, compression, condensation, confinement, confining, constriction, curtailment, decrease, diminution, evaporation, lessening, narrowing, omission, omitting, recession, reducing, reduction, shrinkage, shrinking, withdrawal, abbreviating, abridging, condensing, curtailing, cutting down, decreasing, deflating, deflation, diminishing, drawing together, dwindling, elision, evaporating, lopping, receding, shrivelling, tensing, tightening, withdrawing |
| Antonyms: | amplification, dilation, enlargement, expansion, extension, increase, spread, stretch, lengthening |
| Main Entry: | cramp |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | muscle spasm |
| Synonyms: | ache, confinement, contraction, convulsion, crick, hindrance, impediment, kink, obstruction, pain, pang, restriction, stiffness, stitch, stricture, twinge, charley horse, circumscription, constipation, shooting pain |
| Main Entry: | duress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | threat, hardship |
| Synonyms: | bondage, captivity, coercion, compulsion, confinement, constraint, control, detention, discipline, force, imprisonment, incarceration, pressure, restraint, violence |
| Main Entry: | illness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disease; bad health |
| Synonyms: | affliction, ailing, ailment, attack, breakdown, bug*, collapse, complaint, confinement, convalescence, disability, diseasedness, disorder, disturbance, dose, failing health, fit, flu, ill health, indisposition, infirmity, malady, malaise, poor health, prostration, relapse, seizure, sickness, syndrome, unhealth, virus, what's going around |
| Notes: | illness means sickness or poor health, while a disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning |
| Antonyms: | good health, health, well-being, wellness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | infirmity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weakness, sickness |
| Synonyms: | affliction, ailing, ailment, confinement, debility, decay, decrepitude, defect, deficiency, disease, disorder, failing, fault, feebleness, frailty, imperfection, indisposition, malady, malaise, shortcoming, debilitation, diseasedness, flu, ill health, sickliness, unhealth, unhealthiness, unwellness, vulnerability |
| Antonyms: | soundness, strength, good health, healthiness, robustness |
| Main Entry: | isolation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | seclusion |
| Synonyms: | concealment, confinement, desolation, detachment, exile, hiding, privacy, quarantine, retreat, segregation, solitude, withdrawal, aloneness, aloofness, beleaguerment, monkhood, privateness, reclusion, reclusiveness, remoteness, seclusiveness, sequestration |
| Main Entry: | prison |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | residence for incarcerating criminals |
| Synonyms: | can*, clink*, confinement, cooler*, dungeon, jail, keep, lockup, pen*, penal institution, penitentiary, reformatory, stockade, G, bastille, guardhouse, slammer*, statesville, up the river |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | restriction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | limit |
| Synonyms: | ball and chain, brake, catch, check, condition, confinement, constraint, contraction, control, cramp, curb, custody, demarcation, fine print, glitch*, handicap, hang-up*, inhibition, limitation, lock*, qualification, regulation, reservation, restraint, rule, stint, stipulation, stricture, string*, stumbling block*, bounds, circumscription, containment, excess baggage, grain of salt, limits, no-no, small difficulty |
| Antonyms: | enlargement, expansion, freedom, release |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | servitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slavery |
| Synonyms: | bondage, confinement, enslavement, obedience, thrall, yoke, bonds, chains, peonage, serfdom, serfhood, subjection, subjugation, thralldom, vassalage |
| Antonyms: | mastery |
| Main Entry: | solitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aloneness |
| Synonyms: | confinement, desert, detachment, emptiness, isolation, loneliness, privacy, quarantine, seclusion, silence, waste, wasteland, wilderness, withdrawal, loneness, lonesomeness, peace and quiet, reclusiveness, retirement, separateness, solitariness |
| Antonyms: | companionship, friendship, togetherness |
| Main Entry: | incarceration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imprisonment |
| Synonyms: | captivity, confinement, restraint |
| Main Entry: | arrest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | taking into custody |
| Synonyms: | accommodation, apprehension, appropriation, bag*, booby trap*, bust, captivity, capture, collar, commitment, confinement, constraint, crimp*, detention, drop*, fall*, grab*, heat*, hook*, imprisonment, incarceration, nab*, nail*, nick*, nip*, pick up*, pickle*, pinch*, pull*, pull in*, restraining, run in*, snare, sweep*, gaff, glom, jailing, mitt, preventive custody, protective custody, sequestering |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | limit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | greatest extent |
| Synonyms: | absolute, bitter end, border, bottom line*, bound, breaking point*, brim, brink, cap, ceiling, check, conclusion, confinement, confines, curb, deadline, destination, edge, end, extremity, far out, fence, finality, goal, limitation, margin, maximum, obstruction, restraint, restriction, rim, termination, ultimate, utmost, verge, bourne, circumscription, cutoff point, end point, farthest point, farthest reach, the max, the most, tops |
| Antonyms: | infinity, limitlessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pinch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tight pressing |
| Synonyms: | compression, confinement, contraction, cramp, grasp, grasping, hurt, limitation, nip, pressure, squeeze, torment, tweak, twinge, nipping |
| Main Entry: | imprisonment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forcible detention |
| Synonyms: | bondage, captivity, captivity, confinement, custody, duress, incarceration, isolation, quarantine, restraint, durance, immuration, remand, thraldom, thralldom |
| Antonyms: | freedom, liberty |
| Main Entry: | narrowness |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | a physical restriction |
| Synonyms: | barrier, confinement, impediment, restriction, thinness, slimness |
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