constricting

Examples

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• She sat on the bed, and her waist remained patterned as if branded by fire; where the most constricting band of the corset had rested, her abdomen was bright purple.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Dress don'ts: Avoid anything that's too constricting or uncomfortable, including tight bodices and ball gowns, which will emphasize your middle.

  Blog text (22)

• Now that seems like it would be constricting, but it's not.

  Stanford

• I was mad at the city for what struck me for constricting my movement.

• I must say though, that it is a little constricting, I feel probably because of these ear cups.

• Underwear is just too constricting.

  Celebrity Crush (2019)

• I think it's like just so constricting the lycra.

  JUST TRISH PODCAST

• It's like breaking through all of these constricting, you know, the cells like jail cells like bursting through like and becoming life itself.

• But if you don't have the cushion to weather hard markets and/or rising interest rates, it can be more constricting than liberating.

  Blog text (6)

• The strict rules at the school can be quite constricting for students who want to express themselves.

Synonyms

R

restrictive

vsconstricting

52 4.7

Limits what people can do by rules or laws

is a broader term for situational pressures, not only formal rules

R

repressive

vsconstricting

30 7.0

Limiting people's freedom to speak or act

is a general term for limiting situations rather than political suppression

L

limiting

vsconstricting

3 3.5

Keeping someone or something from having full freedom and many choices

describes the tendency of circumstances to produce such boundary effects

C

confining

vsconstricting

1 5.6

That limits someone's freedom or ability to move

is about limiting circumstances rather than physical enclosure or trapping

C

constrictive

vsconstricting

1 7.1

Making people or groups have less freedom to grow

is used mainly for circumstances that cause such limiting effects

C

constraining

vsconstricting

1 6.3

Makes someone or something unable to act freely

describes limiting situations rather than deliberate actions by someone

N

narrowing

vsconstricting

6.0

Becoming more limited and reducing people's choices or freedoms

is used for existing limiting conditions rather than the process of change

C

constricted

vsconstricting

5.2

Made narrower or tighter by pressure

describes limiting circumstances rather than actual physical squeezing

C

confined

vsconstricting

3.7

Kept in one small space and unable to leave

refers to limiting situations rather than being physically trapped

O

overregulated

vsconstricting

6.6

A business or area with too many rules

describes limiting circumstances not specifically caused by too many rules

Antonyms

L

to liberate

104 4.3

Set someone free from prison or unfair control

E

enabling

• Formal

5.6

To give legal authority to do something

Compounds

C

constricting corset

8.6

A tight piece of clothing that squeezes the waist to make it smaller

How Restrictive

suffocating

1 5.1

stifling

4 5.3

constricting

1 6.5

restriction

340 3.0

limiting

3 3.5

Surface Forms

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Etymology