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.
  •living hell (noun)
  • living-hell,
  • tortures of damned,
  • tortures the damned,
  • tortures damned.
  •neglect (noun)
  • laxity,
  • neglectfulness,
  • pretermission,
  • neglect.
  •oblivion (noun)
  • non existences,
  • out theres,
  • non-existences,
  • nowheres,
  • non existence.
  •state of uncertainty (noun)
  • left field.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • imprisonment.
  •Other relevant words:
  • blankness,
  • station house,
  • obscurity,
  • incarceration,
  • oubliette,
  • cell,
  • gaol,
  • physical pain,
  • anonymity,
  • guardroom,
  • enclosure,
  • Nihility,
  • durance vile,
  • sore,
  • void,
  • dungeon,
  • Bilboes,
  • Quod,
  • on the shelf,
  • pained,
  • penal colony,
  • penitentiary,
  • in chains,
  • cage,
  • Griped,
  • donjon,
  • obliviousness,
  • blackness,
  • nonexistence,
  • stronghold,
  • Mancipation,
  • nullity,
  • Thana,
  • blockade,
  • intermediate state,
  • pinfold,
  • underworld,
  • aching,
  • jig,
  • afflicted,
  • imprisoned,
  • inclosure,
  • suspended,
  • black hole,
  • pandemonium,
  • consigned to oblivion,
  • den,
  • in prison,
  • tollbooth,
  • in abeyance,
  • lower world,
  • pound,
  • entombment,
  • in pain,
  • jail,
  • bondage,
  • Panopticon,
  • duress,
  • on hold,
  • penal settlement,
  • nether world,
  • fortress,
  • infernal regions,
  • place of confinement,
  • treading water,
  • Penfold,
  • stocks,
  • prison,
  • station,
  • place of torment,
  • twilight zone,
  • prison house,
  • workhouse,
  • in custody,
  • siberia,
  • keep,
  • hustle,
  • bottomless pit,
  • life after death,
  • in charge,
  • hold,
  • hulks,
  • perdition,
  • nirvana,
  • pen,
  • hanging,
  • fold,
  • under hatches,
  • house of correction,
  • choky,
  • watch house,
  • worried,
  • Bridewell,
  • twilight,
  • avichi,
  • darkness,
  • coop,
  • suffering,
  • amnesty,
  • displeased,
  • house of detention,
  • Calaboose,
  • limbus,
  • coarctation,
  • living hell,
  • demilitarized zone,
  • pending,
  • lockup,
  • netherworld.

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.