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synonyms for constraining

  • fascinating
  • coercive
  • compulsory
  • forcible
  • imperative
  • acute
  • compelling
  • critical
  • crucial
  • demanding
  • dire
  • immediate
  • imperative
  • insistent
  • serious
  • vital
  • burning
  • claiming
  • crying
  • distressing
  • exacting
  • forcing
  • instant
  • obliging
  • requiring
  • clamant
  • clamorous
  • exigent
  • heat-on
  • high-priority
  • hurry-up
  • importunate
  • life-and-death

antonyms for constraining

MOST RELEVANT
  • discretional
  • elective
  • optional
  • easy
  • facile
  • ordinary
  • usual
  • apathetic
  • idle
  • impotent
  • inactive
  • ineffective
  • lethargic
  • mild
  • moderate
  • passive
  • weak
  • feeble
  • meek
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        How to use constraining in a sentence

        With those, who knew him well, constraining was the influence of this man, who spoke with authority of life and God and duty.
        THE LIFE OF MAZZINIBOLTON KING
        And constraining himself, and distorting his esthetic and ethical feeling, he tries to conform to the ruling opinion.
        TOLSTOY ON SHAKESPEARELEO TOLSTOY
        He was essentially an Industrial man; great in organizing, regulating, in constraining chaotic heaps to become cosmic for him.
        HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II. OF PRUSSIA, VOL. III. (OF XXI.)THOMAS CARLYLE
        Every one is conscious that, however corrupt his nature, he is under no irresistible impulse, no constraining necessity.
        FEMALE SCRIPTURE BIOGRAPHIES, VOL. IFRANCIS AUGUSTUS COX
        Military science, constraining chaos into the cosmic state, has nowhere such a problem.
        HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II. OF PRUSSIA, VOL. XVIII. (OF XXI.)THOMAS CARLYLE
        But in either case it is only a constraining condition, not the divine impulse itself.
        THE SOUL OF THE FAR EASTPERCIVAL LOWELL
        Cupid after the discharge of the Arrow—with finger raised constraining silence.
        CATALOGUE OF THE GALLERY OF ART OF THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETYANONYMOUS
        It was all a kiss, despite the constraining straps—or almost all.
        THE BOY WITH WINGSBERTA RUCK
        She hated the North, she wished to be gone from it, and most of all she hated Bill Wagstaff for constraining her presence there.
        NORTH OF FIFTY-THREEBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
        Kind gentleness comes also in its train, Constraining men to serve those some would blame.
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        OCTOBER 26, 1985
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        WORDS RELATED TO CONSTRAINING

        • coercive
        • compulsory
        • constraining
        • fascinating
        • forcible
        • imperative
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