Definition for Limbo:

• The frontier or border of hell where there is neither pleasure nor pain; the place in hell said to be appropriated to those who are stained with original sin only, or for the souls of unbaptised infants; a place of restraint; in limbo, in prison; under restraint.

Synonyms for Limbo:

• n.

  •
  • nothingness,
  • reservation,
  • reserve,
  • uncertainty,
  • scepticism,
  • doubt,
  • question,
  • distrust,
  • a question mark over something,
  • doubt yourself.
  •
  • boogie,
  • cha-cha,
  • charleston,
  • dance,
  • conga,
  • bolero,
  • cancan,
  • belly dance,
  • dancing,
  • bossa nova.
  •back burner (noun)
  • back-burner.
  •captivity (noun)
  • subjections,
  • vassalages.
  •catholicism (noun)
  • apostolic,
  • catholicism,
  • bull,
  • catholic,
  • confess,
  • confession,
  • altar boy,
  • anglo-catholic,
  • conclave.
  •cognition (noun)
  • limbo.
  •confinement (noun)
  • confinement.
  •dead time (noun)
  • insensitive times,
  • time delays,
  • dead-time.
  •exclusion (noun)
  • banishment,
  • exile,
  • isolation,
  • exclusion.
  •fool's paradise (noun)
  • false hopes,
  • fool's-paradise,
  • delusive contentments,
  • castle air,
  • fools-paradise,
  • dreamscapes,
  • quixotic ideals,
  • castle the air,
  • castle in air,
  • fond illusions,
  • fool-paradise,
  • fool paradise,
  • fools paradise.
  •forgetfulness (noun)
  • lapse of memory,
  • fugue,
  • paramnesia,
  • absentmindedness,
  • dreaminess,
  • loss of memory,
  • laxness,
  • short memory,
  • blockout,
  • fugues,
  • hypomnesia.
  •hell (noun)
  • horror,
  • mire,
  • styx,
  • hades,
  • inferno,
  • abyss,
  • holocaust,
  • bedlam,
  • morass,
  • furnace,
  • gehenna,
  • oven.
  •holding pattern (noun)
  • stack-ups,
  • waiting paths,
  • stackups,
  • stack ups,
  • holding-pattern,
  • stackup.
  •prison (noun)
  • jail.
  •state of uncertainty (noun)
  • siberia,
  • demilitarized zone,
  • left field.
  •up in the air (noun)
  • pending,
  • on hold,
  • in abeyance.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • imprisonment.

Paraphrases for Limbo:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    Laminae, void, stalemate, deadlock, impasse.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    uncertainty, limb, abeyance, vacuum, emptiness, suspense.

Antonyms for Limbo:

• n.

  • state of uncertainty
    certainty, sureness, surety, certitude.

Limbo Sentence Examples:

• Some imagine it to be a sort of limbo for the patriarchs and prophets, or for the martyrs and those who have been most eminent for sanctity.

• Fair visions of dates doomed to the Limbo of things which should have been!

Homophones for Limbo:

• limpopo, lump, line up, limp, lineup, lamb, limpa, lamp, lumpy, lenify, limb, lymph.

Hyponym for Limbo:

• n.

  • cognition
    mythical place, fictitious place, imaginary place.
  • state
    obscurity.