confined
- adjective
- /kənˈfaɪnd/
:
confinado
- The prisoners were confined to their cells for 23 hours a day.
But that's in a, you know, Petri dish, confined box, sandbox, Faraday cage.
- But that's in a, you know, Petri dish, confined box, sandbox, Faraday cage.
- You know, I'm just because you're in this confined space.
- And it being a small confined space just felt like that pressure of like this is safe.
- Also, you know, I kind of try not to feel confined by what the claims might be.
- But but I think of course each of us is confined in our own reality.
- So we're not confined by this black lab consciousness.
- I always thought rabbit was confined to toast.
- It was very almost like, you know, like, like, like, you know, intimate and confined in this in interior space.
- They live confined by words that you know their mum or dad or themselves have given them.
- And so, and then you have all of these strewn together and, and then they are confined.
Examples
-
Are you willing to be confined by how other people see you?
-
And the dairy cows really perhaps have the worst life of a confined animal, I think in factory farms.
-
Initially the gas is confined completely onto one side.
-
And it being a small confined space just felt like that pressure of like this is safe.
-
So for me, just trying to not be confined by my environment, by my circumstances, is the magic I've been searching for all my life.
-
And in here the electrons are confined in this coral made of iron atoms.
-
So you can't be excluded from certain jobs or confined to nurse teacher.
-
You, ma'am, are not confined by any guardrails.
-
The puppy felt anxious in the small, confined space of the carrier.
-
He was confined to a wheelchair after the accident, unable to walk.
Synonyms
54
4.2
Kept as a prisoner and not free
37
3.2
A space that is too small for people to move easily
28
5.5
Being kept in a small space makes you restless and unhappy
6
4.2
Tied or fastened to stop movement
3
6.3
Unable to do things freely because of limits like walls or rules
1
6.5
Causes people to feel limited and unable to act freely
1
3.5
Something that is inside and surrounded by other things, like a garden or document
Kept in prison and not free
A person who is kept in prison by the law
Held by a rope or chain so it cannot move far
Unable to escape from a dangerous place or situation, for example when surrounded by attackers
A person or place with people and things all around
Tightly stuck in a small space so it cannot move
Kept apart from others to stop an illness spreading
Made narrower or tighter by pressure
Kept away from other people in a quiet private place
Antonyms
How Confined
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Confined comes from Latin parts con- ('with') and fin ('end' or 'limit'), like the root in final. This helps: to be confined is to be kept inside a boundary or small space, so you cannot leave it.