Confinement Synonyms and Antonyms

kən-fīnmənt
The state of being detained by legal authority
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. charge
  2. custody
  3. detention
  4. ward
The state of being confined
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. circumscription
  2. constraint
  3. restriction
  4. limitation
  5. imprisonment
  6. restraint
  7. captivity
  8. incarceration
  9. detention
  10. custody
  11. curb
  12. immuration
  13. repression
  14. control
  15. coercion
  16. keeping
  17. safekeeping
  18. accouchement
  19. quarantine
  20. childbirth
  21. bounding
  22. bounds
  23. trammels
  24. check
  25. closeness
  26. durance
  27. bonds
  28. duress
  29. immurement
  30. internment
  31. isolation
  32. estrapade
  33. strappado
  34. limbo
  35. lying-in
  36. parturition
  37. tar-and-feathering
Antonyms:
  1. freedom
  2. liberation
  3. release
  4. independence
The period that accompanies childbirth
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. childbirth
  2. lying-in
  3. labor
  4. childbed
  5. delivery
  6. travail
  7. accouchement
  8. parturition
  9. parturiency
  10. one's time
  11. labour

Words Related to Confinement

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Confinement Sentence Examples

  • His confinement was strict and injured his health, but he was allowed the use of books.

  • When her confinement is due, send to Moscow for an accoucheur....

  • At a later period he was released from close confinement and allowed to settle in Mexico, where a pension was given him.

  • The offender, whether simoniacus (one who had bought his orders) or simoniace promotus (one who had bought his promotion), was liable to deprivation of his benefice and deposition from orders if a secular priest, - to confinement in a stricter monastery if a regular.

  • He was kept in confinement a fortnight, and was then packed off to England in accordance with his own request.

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