Antonyms for constraint
kənˈstreɪntcon·straint

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1. constraint

   Bashfulness is a shrinking from notice without assignable reason. Coyness is a half encouragement, half avoidance of offered attention, and may be real or affected. Diffidence is self-distrust; modesty, a humble estimate of oneself in comparison with others, or with the demands of some undertaking. Modesty has also the specific meaning of a sensitive shrinking from anything indelicate. Shyness is a tendency to shrink from observation; timidity, a distinct fear of criticism, error, or failure. Reserve is the holding oneself aloof from others, or holding back one's feelings from expression, or one's affairs from communication to others. Reserve may be the retreat of shyness, or, on the other hand, the contemptuous withdrawal of pride and haughtiness. Compare ABASH; PRIDE; TACITURN.

   Antonyms:
   abandon, arrogance, assumption, assurance, boldness, conceit, confidence, egotism, forwardness, frankness, freedom, haughtiness, impudence, indiscretion, loquaciousness, loquacity, pertness, sauciness, self-conceit, self-sufficiency, sociability

   Synonyms:
   backwardness, bashfulness, coldness, coyness, diffidence, modesty, reserve, shyness, timidity, unobtrusiveness

Matched Categories

1. • Confinement
   • Device
   • Restriction

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. constraint, restraintnoun

   the state of being physically constrained

   "dogs should be kept under restraint"

   Synonyms:
   restraint, control, simplicity, chasteness, simpleness

2. restraint, constraintnoun

   a device that retards something's motion

   "the car did not have proper restraints fitted"

   Synonyms:
   restraint, control, simplicity, chasteness, simpleness

3. constraintnoun

   the act of constraining; the threat or use of force to control the thoughts or behavior of others

   Synonyms:
   restraint

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1. constraintnoun

   Synonyms:
   compulsion, coercion, force, pressure, restraint, restriction

How to use constraint in a sentence?

1. Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove:

   A critical constraint on the ability to rapidly increase testing capacity is the availability of the chemical reagents which are necessary in the testing.

2. Walt Whitman:

   The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

3. Roger K. Summit:

   Make profit a constraint, not an objective.

4. Stephen Shay:

   It, without doubt, significantly changes the rules of the game, in the old days you bought and then you levered up as much as you can and that is not going to happen in the same way, but how much of a constraint that becomes is unclear.

5. Thomas Mann:

   The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivable encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no precise name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold.

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