Word.ws English Dictionary

confinest

confinest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of confine.

Meaning of confine

Verb

confine (third-person singular simple present confines, present participle confining, simple past and past participle confined)

  1. (obsolete) To have a common boundary with; to border on.
    • Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
  2. (transitive) To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area; to keep in or within certain bounds.
    • Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined! let order die!c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […]...
    Synonyms:
    pen, hem in, incarcerate

See all 4 meanings of confine

Origin of confinest

confine + -est

Questions about confinest

What is confinest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Confinest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of confine.

Words near confinest in the dictionary

  1. confinements
  2. confiner
  3. confiners
  4. confines
  5. confines oneself
  6. confinest
  7. confineth
  8. confining
  9. confining oneself
  10. confiningly
  11. confiningness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: confinest (page history and authors); confine (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “confinest.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/confinest. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.