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constraint - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | constraint |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | force |
| Synonyms: | coercion, compulsion, driving, duress, goad, hang-up*, monkey*, motive, necessity, pressure, repression, restraint, spring, spur, suppression, violence, a must, impelling, impulsion, no-no |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | constraint |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shyness |
| Synonyms: | bashfulness, diffidence, embarrassment, hang-up*, humility, inhibition, modesty, repression, reservation, reserve, restraint, timidity |
| Antonyms: | aggression |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | constraint |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | restriction |
| Synonyms: | arrest, captivity, check, confinement, cramp, curb, damper, detention, deterrent, hindrance, limitation, restraint, circumscription, constrainment |
| Antonyms: | allowance, permission |
| Main Entry: | brake |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stopping device; check |
| Synonyms: | anchor, constraint, control, curb, damper, deterrent, discouragement, hamper, hindrance, hurdle, obstacle, rein, restraint, binders, cinchers, retarding device |
| Notes: | to brake is to slow or stop while break is to cause to separate into pieces suddenly or violently, smash or crack |
| Antonyms: | accelerator |
| 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: | coercion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compulsion, pressure |
| Synonyms: | bullying, constraint, duress, force, intimidation, menace, menacing, persuasion, restraint, threat, threatening, violence, browbeating, strong-arm tactic |
| Main Entry: | compulsion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drive, obligation |
| Synonyms: | coercion, constraint, demand, drive, driving, duress, duty, exigency, force, hang-up, monkey*, necessity, need, obsession, preoccupation, pressure, urge, urgency, engrossment, have on the brain, prepossession, tiger by the tail |
| Antonyms: | free will, freedom, independence, liberty, license |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | constriction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blockage |
| Synonyms: | binding, compression, constraint, contraction, cramp, impediment, limitation, narrowing, pressure, reduction, restriction, stricture, choking, squeezing, stenosis, tightness |
| Antonyms: | opening |
| Main Entry: | diffidence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hesitancy; lack of confidence |
| Synonyms: | bashfulness, constraint, doubt, fear, hesitation, humility, insecurity, meekness, modesty, reluctance, reserve, shyness, timidity, backwardness, mousiness, self-consciousness, sheepishness, timidness, timorousness, unassertiveness |
| Antonyms: | boldness, confidence |
| 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: | enforcement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | requirement to obey; implementation of rule(s) |
| Synonyms: | administration, application, coercion, compulsion, constraint, duress, execution, imposition, insistence, lash, martial law, obligation, prescription, pressure, prosecution, reinforcement, spur, whip, carrying out, compulsory law, enforcing, exaction, fulfilling, impulsion, necessitation |
| Antonyms: | abandon, disregard, forgetfulness, neglect, renunciation, slight |
| Main Entry: | exigency/exigence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficulty; demand |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, constraint, contingency, crisis, crossroad, dilemma, distress, duress, emergency, extremity, fix, hardship, jam, juncture, necessity, need, pass, pickle*, pinch, plight, predicament, pressure, quandary, requirement, scrape*, stress, turning point*, urgency, vicissitude, want, wont, zero hour*, criticalness, demandingness, imperativeness, needfulness, pressingness |
| Antonyms: | ease, easiness, ordinariness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | limitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | restraint, disadvantage |
| Synonyms: | bar, block, check, condition, constraint, control, cramp, curb, definition, drawback, impediment, inhibition, injunction, modification, obstruction, qualification, reservation, restriction, snag, stint, stricture, taboo, circumspection |
| Antonyms: | advantage, extent, freedom, infinity, range, release |
| Main Entry: | moderation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | temperance |
| Synonyms: | balance, calmness, composure, constraint, coolness, equanimity, fairness, forbearance, golden mean, justice, measure, mildness, patience, poise, quiet, restraint, sobriety, dispassionateness, judiciousness, justness, lenity, moderateness, reasonableness, sedateness, sedation, steadiness, toleration |
| Antonyms: | extreme, indulgence, intemperance, intensity, severity, violence, outrageousness, unlimitedness, wildness |
| Main Entry: | modesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shyness |
| Synonyms: | bashfulness, celibacy, chastity, constraint, decency, delicacy, diffidence, humility, inhibition, innocence, meekness, propriety, purity, reserve, reticence, simplicity, timidity, virtue, coyness, demureness, discreetness, humbleness, lack of pretension, prudery, quietness, self-effacement, unobtrusiveness, unostentatiousness, unpretentiousness |
| Antonyms: | arrogance, boldness, conceit, courage, ego, pride, self-confidence, braveness |
| Main Entry: | obligation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | responsibility |
| Synonyms: | IOU*, accountability, agreement, bond, burden, business, call, cause, charge, chit*, commitment, compulsion, conscience, constraint, contract, debit, debt, dues, duty, engagement, liability, must, necessity, need, occasion, onus, part, place, promise, requirement, restraint, right, trust, understanding, accountableness, committal, devoir, due bill, ought |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prohibition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ban, forbiddance |
| Synonyms: | bar, constraint, disallowance, don't, embargo, exclusion, injunction, interdict, interdiction, negation, no-no, obstruction, off limits, out of bounds, prevention, proscription, refusal, repudiation, restriction, taboo, temperance, veto |
| Antonyms: | allowance, clearance, permission |
| 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: | self-control |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | willpower over one's actions |
| Synonyms: | abstemiousness, aplomb, balance, constraint, dignity, discipline, discretion, poise, repression, reserve, restraint, reticence, sobriety, stability, stoicism, self-constraint, self-discipline, self-government, strength of character |
| Antonyms: | agitation, rashness |
| Main Entry: | temperance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | self-restraint; abstinence |
| Synonyms: | abnegation, abstemiousness, austerity, conservatism, constraint, continence, control, discretion, forbearance, frugality, golden mean*, happy medium*, measure, moderation, mortification, prohibition, prudence, restraint, sacrifice, self-control, self-denial, sobriety, stoicism, asceticism, astringency, eschewal, forgoing, moderateness, moderatism, reasonableness, refrainment, self-deprivation, self-discipline, soberness, teetotalism, uninebriation, unintoxication |
| Antonyms: | excess, intemperance, wildness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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