What is another word for tethered?

Pronunciation: [tˈɛðəd] (IPA)

Tethered means restricted or confined. Other synonyms for tethered include constrained, limited, restrained, controlled, curbed, contained, restricted, hampered, hindered, shackled, impeded, restrained, confined, caged, constrained, and bound. These words convey a sense of being tied down or held back in some way, with little freedom or room to manoeuvre. Tethered can also imply a sense of dependence or reliance on someone or something else, and synonym words such as bound or caged can further emphasize this feeling of being trapped or confined. The right synonym can help to deepen the meaning of a word and add shades of nuance to any text.

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What are the opposite words for tethered?

The word tethered means to be tied or connected to something to prevent movement. Antonyms for this word would be words that suggest freedom and movement. Some possible antonyms for tethered might include words like unbound, unfettered, leash-free, free-range, or disconnected. These words suggest a lack of restriction or confinement, and instead indicate the ability to move and explore freely. Other antonyms might include words like liberated, released, or untethered, all of which suggest a state of being unencumbered and able to move or act as desired. Overall, antonyms for the word tethered suggest a sense of openness, freedom, and possibility.

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Usage examples for Tethered

He gathered all his little strength to hold the frantic creature, maddened with hunger, and tethered him where he could graze for half an hour, then fetched him water as the big man had done, a little at a time in the great dipper.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
As long as I was tethered to the stake or bush or whatever it was I reckoned I was all right, an' so I slep' on without feelin' a bit alarmed, knowin' that I wouldn't drift no more an' in the mornin' I could go on an' reach the shore.
"The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island"
Cyril Burleigh
He tethered the two beasts to a fence before he approached the house, and Alison noticed that he looked very lean and jaded.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss

Famous quotes with Tethered

  • Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.
    John Mayer
  • Thud. My eyes are open. It is four-thirty in the morning, one morning, and my dry eyes click in their sockets, awake before the birds. There is no light. The eye strains for logic, some play of form. I have been dreaming of wind. The tree outside my window stands silent. I listen to the breathing of the man lying beside me. I know where I am. I am awake. I am alive. Am I tethered to earth only by this fragile breath? A strawful of breath at best. Yet this is the breath that patients beg, their hands gripping the edges of mattresses; this is the breath that wrestles trees, that brings down all the leaves in the Third Act. We know where the car is parked. We know, word-for-word, the texts of plays. We have spoken, in proximity to one another, over years, sentences, hundreds of thousands of sentences—bright, grave, fallible, comic, perishable—perhaps eternal? I don’t know. Where does the wind go? When will the light come? We will have hotcakes for breakfast. How can I protect this . . . ? My church teaches me I cannot. And I believe it. I turn the pillow to its cool side. Then rage fills me, against the cubist necessity of having to arrange myself comically against orthodoxy, against having to wonder if I will offend, against theology that devises that my feeling for him, more than for myself, is a vanity. My brown paradox: The church that taught me to understand love, the church that taught me well to believe love breathes—also tells me it is not love I feel, at four in the morning, in the dark, even before the birds cry. Of every hue and caste am I.
    Richard Rodriguez
  • I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here.
    W. C. Fields

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