English word
Bound
Definitions
adjective (1)
- fastened by or as if by a band : confined
- very likely : sure
- placed under legal or moral restraint or obligation : obliged
- secured to the covers by cords, tapes, or glueof a book
- determined, resolved
- held in chemical or physical combination
- made costive (see costive sense 1a) : constipated
- always occurring in combination with another linguistic form
- compare free entry 1 sense 11d
Synonyms for bound
Closest evidence-backed alternatives.
- made
- forced
- directed
- necessitated
Synonyms by context
Obliged by law, circumstances, or duty to do something
adjective
- compelled
- obliged
- obligated
- pledged
- committed
- constrained
- required
Certain to be or to do or have something
adjective
- certain
- sure
- assured
- destined
- fated
- doomed
- guaranteed
- predestined
- very likely
- nailed on
To enclose or form the boundary of
verb
- border
- enclose
- circle
- circumscribe
- encircle
- ring
- surround
- frame
- margin
- rim
To adjoin or be adjacent to
verb
- abut
- adjoin
- edge
- fringe
- meet
- skirt
- touch
- join
- conjoin
- flank
A leaping movement towards or over something
noun
- capriole
- curvet
The outside limit of an object, area, or surface
noun
- boundary
- perimeter
- periphery
- borderline
- brim
- end
Antonyms for bound
- faltering
- free
- irresolute
- unlikely
- hesitant
- indecisive
- vacillating
- unbounded
- undetermined
- unresolved
- weak-kneed
Opposite of obliged by law, circumstances, or duty to do something
- faltering
- hesitant
- indecisive
- irresolute
- undetermined
- unresolved
- vacillating
- wavering
- weak-kneed
- allowed
Opposite of not done by one's own volition
- ungrateful
- settled
- thankless
- paid
- unappreciative
Opposite of linked or connected, typically physically
- detached
- independent
- disconnected
- uncombined
- unrelated
- apart
- disparate
- separated
Opposite of to walk or run with leaping strides
- allow
- permit
- unbind
- let go
- release
- free
- center
- centre
- face
- loose
Opposite of to restrict or place within certain limits
- begin
- liberate
- open
- start
- unrestrict
- meet
Opposite of to move or progress with great haste
- crawl
- creep
- dawdle
- retard
- brake
- decelerate
- poke
- delay
- slow
- slow down
Opposite of the outside limit of an object, area, or surface
- inside
- interior
- middle
- heart
- core
- hub
- minimum
Opposite of an act of jumping into the air
- landing
Phrases
- answerable for
- at fault
- beholden for
- blowing hot and cold
- called by duty
- charged with
- filled with gratitude
- full of doubt
- grateful for
- having no alternative
- held responsible
- in a dilemma
- in a quandary
- in debt
- indebted for
- in doubt
- in hock
- in someone's debt
- in two minds
- legally responsible