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- [hous-bound]
- /ˈhaʊsˌbaʊnd/
- /ˈhaʊs.baʊnd/
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- [hous-bound]
- /ˈhaʊsˌbaʊnd/
Definitions of housebound word
- adjective housebound restricted to the house, as by bad weather or illness. 1
- noun housebound Unable to leave one's house, typically due to illness or old age. 1
- adjective housebound confined to your home 1
- adjective housebound Someone who is housebound is unable to go out of their house, usually because they are ill or cannot walk far. 0
- adjective housebound unable to leave one's house because of illness, injury, etc 0
- adjective housebound confined to one's home, as by an illness 0
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Origin of housebound
First appearance:
before 1875 One of the 25% newest English words
First recorded in 1875-80; house + -bound1
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Parts of speech for Housebound
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
housebound popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 65% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.
housebound usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for housebound
adj housebound
- damaged — injury or harm that reduces value or usefulness: The storm did considerable damage to the crops.
- harmed — physical injury or mental damage; hurt: to do him bodily harm.
- deformed — disfigured or misshapen
- handicapped — Sometimes Offensive. physically or mentally disabled.
- broken — Broken is the past participle of break.
adjective housebound
- stormbound — confined, detained, or isolated by storms: a stormbound ship; a stormbound village.
- confined — If something is confined to a particular place, it exists only in that place. If it is confined to a particular group, only members of that group have it.
- isolated — compact
- cut off — If you cut something off, you remove it with a knife or a similar tool.
- snowed in — If you are snowed in, you cannot go anywhere because of heavy snow.
Antonyms for housebound
adj housebound
- ok — all right; proceeding normally; satisfactory or under control: Things are OK at the moment.
- working — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- capable — If a person or thing is capable of doing something, they have the ability to do it.
- healthy — possessing or enjoying good health or a sound and vigorous mentality: a healthy body; a healthy mind.
- fixed — fastened, attached, or placed so as to be firm and not readily movable; firmly implanted; stationary; rigid.
Top questions with housebound
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