Definitions for constraint

constraint con·straint

Spelling: [kuh n-streynt]
IPA: /kənˈstreɪnt/

Constraint is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 726 anagrams from letters in constraint (acinnorstt).

Definitions for constraint

noun

  1. limitation or restriction.
  2. repression of natural feelings and impulses:
  3. unnatural restraint in manner, conversation, etc.; embarrassment.
  4. something that constrains.
  5. the act of constraining.
  6. the condition of being constrained.
  7. Linguistics. a restriction on the operation of a linguistic rule or the occurrence of a linguistic construction.

Origin of constraint

1350-1400; Middle English constreinte Middle French, noun use of feminine past participle of constreindre; see constrain

Examples for constraint

Well, the other constraint is the amount of information available.

In short, Mr. Obama feels no constraint in faithfully executing the laws as written by the Congress.

That seems obvious, but the constraint it puts on good policy is enormous.

But, placid as she was, my mother was authoritative, and could not endure any kind of constraint.

At length the clerk came up to him with awkward manners and a look of constraint.

But then there was constraint in the correspondence—it was submitted to her mother.

Vere felt that somehow her eager suggestion had deepened the constraint.

The lawyer's face sobered, and his tone as he answered was tinged with constraint.

Gravity is transformed from the constraint that holds us dully to Earth into the power that lets us fly.

The capital gains rate will never be a driver of investment, only a constraint upon it.

Word Value for constraint
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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