Sample Sentences forfetter (editor-reviewed)
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She is fettered by old ideas whose time has passed.fettered = hindered (held back)
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"You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. (source)fettered = in shackles (with the ankles or feet chained)
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It was Artemis, but she was wrapped in chains, fettered to the rocks. (source)fettered = shackled (restrained with chains)
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And thus your freedom when ... becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom. (source)fetter = restraining shackles
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The clanking of fetters and the rattling of chains in the prison, (source)fetters = a shackle for the ankles
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A moment more and I had fettered him to the granite. (source)fettered = chained
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Despite his fetters, he manages to sway lightly back and forth.† (source)
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The majority of people might agree with them, but the majority is fettered.† (source)
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so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, (source)unfettered = unrestrained or unhinderedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unfettered means not and reverses the meaning of fettered. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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We had in Norway a genuine Baroque poet called Fetter Dass, who lived from 1647 to 1707.† (source)
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Yet the ploughman behind his plough, though the snow lay on his ragged great-coat, and the cold clinging mud rose on his heavy boots, fettering him like gyves, whistled in the very beard of the gale.† (source)
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Nor fetter'd love ... They thought it over, or postponed thinking.† (source)
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Like a paw ripping through all the stable fibres of the earth, power, gigantic, fetterless, thudded into day!† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-less" in fetterless means without and reverses the meaning of fetter. This is the same pattern you see in words like harmless, fearless, and powerless.
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The fun fetters, from national and international leaders, sometimes hostile, sometimes friendly, always diplomatically trying to pry into Demosthenes' mind—those she and Peter read together, laughing in delight sometimes that people like this were writing to children, and didn't know it.† (source)
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And is therefore blinkered and fettered by the limitations of your kind.† (source)
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"I thought this was an unfettered access situation," Jordan whispered.† (source)
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