self-imposed
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5.6
- adjective
- /ˈsɛlf ɪmˈpoʊzd/
:
autoimpuesto
- All her problems are self-imposed.
- self-imposed exile
- self-imposed isolation
- self-imposed deadline
But you feel in this self-imposed jail because you can't be you.
- But you feel in this self-imposed jail because you can't be you.
- Or somebody who maybe is is sort of comfortably residing in that self-imposed prison of fear.
- You have to have self-imposed limitations.
- But we must go beyond the self-imposed limits of what a discipline can study and call reality.
- So within constraints though there are external constraints and there are self-imposed constraints, there's perceived constraints, environmental constraints.
- Antisthenes founds it and Diogenes is very famous for the sort of self-imposed hardships that he would go through.
- So, so for me, the my, my, my self-imposed definition of excess here is excess is that which does not add value to our lives.
- I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours.
- What I've found myself doing as perhaps just a self-imposed therapy is saying, OK, maybe today isn't achievement day.
- This is to hit arbitrary self-imposed deadlines and uploading scheduling whose end result is misleading for consumers.
Examples
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Now I was sure that our self-imposed silence was to blame.
Fiction book (1998) -
All limitations are self-imposed.
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You have to have self-imposed limitations.
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I had not expected my wife and son to enter into this self-imposed exile.
Fiction book (2001) -
Of course, such restrictions are purely self-imposed and could be abolished or reinterpreted when need be.
Academic text (1996) -
The day before King delivered his oration, W.E.B. Dubois died in Ghana, in self-imposed exile.
Academic text (2003) -
Also, low achievers (who self-selected difficult goals) met their self-imposed challenge and performed accordingly.
Academic text (1994) -
Her anxiety often stems from self-imposed standards that are impossible to meet.
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He decided to leave his self-imposed isolation and reconnect with friends.
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The athlete's failure was due to the self-imposed pressure he felt to win at all costs.
Synonyms
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6.7
Caused by a person to themselves, often on purpose
Antonyms
How Voluntary
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word self-imposed is made of self- meaning 'your own' and impose meaning 'to put on or force on someone'. So a self-imposed rule, silence, or exile is something you put on yourself by choice, not something others force on you.