locked up

ADJECTIVE

booked

Synonyms

STRONGEST

charged jailed

STRONG

imprisoned

WEAK

taken into custody under arrest

Antonyms

WEAK

free liberated

ADJECTIVE

captive

Synonyms

STRONGEST

caged enslaved imprisoned incommunicado

STRONG

bound

WEAK

confined ensnared in custody incarcerated jailed penned restricted subjugated under lock and key

Antonyms

WEAK

disillusioned free independent loose uninterested

ADJECTIVE

confined

Synonyms

STRONGEST

circumscribed cramped imprisoned restrained restricted

STRONG

bound chilled compassed cramp detained grounded hampered held hog-tied iced immured incarcerated indisposed invalided jailed pent sick

WEAK

bedfast bedridden bottled-up cooped up flattened out in chains in jail incommodious laid up on ice sealed up shut-in

Antonyms

STRONG

healthy well

WEAK

free liberated unlimited

ADJECTIVE

unavoidable

Synonyms

STRONGEST

certain inescapable inevitable necessary obligatory

WEAK

compulsory fated impending ineluctable ineludible inevasible inexorable open and shut set sure unescapable

Antonyms

STRONGEST

doubtful escapable optional uncertain unsure voluntary

WEAK

avoidable

Example Sentences

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Some must even be locked up under Deprivation of Liberty orders mandated by the High Court for their own welfare.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

The senior executive team at QXO owns about 30% of the company, but the vast majority is locked up for six years.

From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026

Framed as a humanitarian mission to help ships and starving crews locked up in the Strait against their will, this was also a tactical move to break the Iranian blockade and restore energy flows.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

And because no one who is locked up in this country should have to wait for the system to fix itself.

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2026

And a big piece of my heart is locked up there with her.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman

locked up

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