What is another word for encumbered by?

Pronunciation: [ɛnkˈʌmbəd bˈa͡ɪ] (IPA)

When we are "encumbered by" something, we find ourselves burdened or weighed down by it. However, there are several alternative phrases and words that can effectively convey a similar meaning. One such synonym is "hampered by", which suggests being impeded or hindered by a particular obstacle or difficulty. Another option is "plagued by", indicating a persistent and troublesome presence that significantly hampers progress or success. Additionally, "burdened with" is an alternative that emphasizes the weight or heaviness of the situation at hand. When seeking to avoid repetition or explore different shades of meaning, these synonyms prove valuable in conjunction with the phrase "encumbered by."

What are the opposite words for encumbered by?

The word "encumbered by" refers to a burden or hindrance that affects a person or thing. Some antonyms for this phrase could include "unrestricted," "liberated," "unencumbered," or "unburdened." These words suggest a sense of freedom and lack of hindrance or obstacles. For instance, one might describe a creative person as "unencumbered" by traditional norms or expectations, meaning that they are free to explore new ideas and techniques without feeling held back. Similarly, a person who has overcome their past struggles and is now "unburdened" by those experiences is free to pursue their goals without feeling weighed down. These antonyms offer a sense of liberation and the ability to move forward with more ease and agility.

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Famous quotes with Encumbered by

  • The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.
    Boris Vian
  • If someone tells you that the fully armored man of the Middle Ages was so encumbered by his armor that he could not rise if he fell, you may well ask yourself, first, if it is reasonable to assume that professional soldiers would go on wearing armor that kept them from fighting and second, if this theory is in line with what you know of the heavily armored men of your personal acquaintance.
    Niccola Sebastiani
  • The mother who has never taken up residence in her own body, and therefore fears her own chthonic nature, is not going to experience pregnancy as a quiet meditation with her unborn child, nor birth as a joyful bonding experience. Although she may go through the motions of natural childbirth, the psyche/soma split in her is so deep that physical bonding between her and her baby daughter does not take place. Her child lives with a profound sense of despair, a despair which becomes conscious if in later years she does active imagination with her body and releases waves of grief and terror that resonate with the initial, primal rejection. [...] The body that appears in dreams wrapped in fire, encircled by a black snake or encumbered by a fish tail from the waist down, may be holding a death-wish too deep for tears.
    Marion Woodman
  • Suppose any person to be put in possession of a large estate of fruitful land, with rich beds of gold in its gravel; countless herds of cattle in its pastures; houses, and gardens, and storehouses full of useful stores; but suppose, after all, that he could get no servants? In order that he may be able to have servants, some one in his neighbourhood must be poor, and in want of his gold — or his corn. Assume that no one is in want of either, and that no servants are to be had. He must, therefore, bake his own bread, make his own clothes, plough his own ground, and shepherd his own flocks. His gold will be as useful to him as any other yellow pebbles on his estate. His stores must rot, for he cannot consume them. He can eat no more than another man could eat, and wear no more than another man could wear. He must lead a life of severe and common labour to procure even ordinary comforts; he will be ultimately unable to keep either houses in repair, or fields in cultivation; and forced to content himself with a poor man's portion of cottage and garden, in the midst of a desert of waste land, trampled by wild cattle, and encumbered by ruins of palaces, which he will hardly mock at himself by calling "his own."
    John Ruskin
  • The white race is the cancer of human history? Who was this woman? Who and what? An anthropological epidemiologist? A renowned authority on the history of cultures throughout the world, a synthesizer of the magnitude of a Max Weber, a Joachim Wach, a Sir James Frazer, an Arnold Toynbee? Actually, she was just another scribbler who spent her life signing up for protest meetings and lumbering to the podium, encumbered by her prose style, which had a handicapped parking sticker valid at . Perhaps she was exceptionally hell-bent on illustrating McLuhan's line about indignation endowing the idiot with dignity, but otherwise she was just a typical American intellectual of the post-World War II period.
    Susan Sontag

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