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fettered
adjective as in bonded
Strongest match
Strong matches
adjective as in responsible
Weak matches
- at fault
- at the helm
- authoritative
- bonded
- bound
- bound to
- carrying the load
- censurable
- chargeable
- compelled
- constrained
- contracted
- decision-making
- devolving on
- duty-bound
- engaged
- executive
- exposed
- hampered
- held
- high
- in authority
- in control
- incumbent
- minding the store
- obligated
- obliged
- on the hook
- open
- susceptive
- sworn to
- tied
- to blame
- under contract
- under obligation
adjective as in restricted
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Example Sentences
Her mouth went dry as Fedu’s fingers fettered her wrists, no different from the ropes that had once bound her hands, but she resisted the urge to wince.
Despite efforts from the Valkyries and Odin’s ravens, this Viking action art piece is fettered to the ground by the demands of the studio gods.
In doing so, the British actress and writer found Mitford celebrating in Linda somebody who “isn’t scared of or fettered by the conventional rules of how to behave,” she said in a recent interview.
“With a bigger company, I can do more things and not be fettered by the small business mentality,” he said.
Constrained by a public role that kept him out of politics and in his wife’s shadow, he privately took a less fettered stance as a husband, father and father-in-law.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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