encumbrance
Meaning of encumbrance
- an impediment or burden.
the horse raised its hind leg as if to rid itself of an encumbrance
for parents, childhood is too long a period of encumbrance
Middle English (denoting an encumbered state; formerly also as incumbrance ): from Old French encombrance, from encombrer ‘block up’ (see encumber).
Information about encumbrance
- It is a name.
- The plural form of encumbrance is: encumbrances.
- Languages in which encumbrance is used:
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Hyphenation of encumbrance
en-cum-brance
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- encumbrance is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
encumbrance synonyms
Meaning burden:
burden, load, incumbrance, onus
Meaning incumbrance:
Meaning hindrance:
hindrance, hinderance, hitch, preventive, preventative, incumbrance, interference
Meaning the action of obstructing or the state of being obstructed:
Meaning a thing that blocks one's way or prevents or hinders progress:
Meaning a hindrance or obstruction in doing something:
Meaning a measure or condition that keeps someone or something under control:
Meaning a limitation or restriction:
Meaning a circumstance that makes progress or success difficult:
Meaning the state or fact of being troublesome or difficult with regard to one's personal requirements or comfort:
Meaning a person or thing causing inconvenience or annoyance:
Meaning an unfavourable circumstance or condition that reduces the chances of success or effectiveness:
Meaning a feature that renders something less acceptable; a disadvantage or problem:
Meaning a hindrance, obstruction, or burden:
Meaning the state or fact of having a duty to deal with something or of having control over someone:
Meaning an act or course of action to which a person is morally or legally bound; a duty or commitment:
Meaning a person or thing whose presence or behaviour is likely to put one at a disadvantage:
Meaning a thing that is imposed, in particular an unfair or unwelcome demand or burden:
Meaning a body's relative mass or the quantity of matter contained by it, giving rise to a downward force; the heaviness of a person or thing:
Meaning a strain or heavy demand:
Meaning pressure or tension exerted on a material object:
Meaning a force tending to pull or stretch something to an extreme or damaging degree:
Meaning continuous physical force exerted on or against an object by something in contact with it:
Meaning difficulty or problems:
Meaning the state of being anxious and troubled over actual or potential problems:
Meaning each of two circular stones used for grinding grain:
Meaning a very large, chiefly white oceanic bird with long, narrow wings, found mainly in the southern oceans:
Meaning restrictions or impediments to freedom of action:
encumbrance antonyms
Meaning the action of helping someone to do something:
Meaning a useful or valuable thing or person:
Words that rhyme with encumbrance
ance, saance, absorbance, bobance, disturbance, indisturbance, nondisturbance, perturbance, predisturbance, reprobance, undisturbance, impeccance, insignificance, nonsignificance, omnisignificance, presignificance, scance, signficance, significance, vacance, Sundance, abidance, abondance, abundance, accordance, adance, aidance, appendance, ascendance, attendance, avoidance, biddance, breakdance, clogdance, concordance, condordance, contradance, contredance, counterdance, dance, dependance, descendance, disaccordance, discordance, disregardance, exceedance, exundance, forbiddance, foreguidance, guidance