Word.ws English Dictionary

obstringed

obstringed adjective: constrained; placed under obligation.

Adjective

obstringed (comparative more obstringed, superlative most obstringed)

  1. (obsolete) constrained; placed under obligation
    • His holiness shewed unto us, how much he and the see was and is obstringed and bound to your grace.c. 1528, Sir Gregory de Cassalis, Dr. Gardiner, and Dr. Fox […] , letter to Cardinal Wolsey

Forms of obstringed

comparativemore obstringed
superlativemost obstringed

Origin of obstringed

See obstriction.

Questions about obstringed

What does obstringed mean?
Obstringed means constrained; placed under obligation.
What part of speech is obstringed?
Obstringed is an adjective.

Words near obstringed in the dictionary

  1. obstreperous
  2. obstreperously
  3. obstreperousness
  4. obstriction
  5. obstrictions
  6. obstringed
  7. obstropalous
  8. obstropolous
  9. obstropulous
  10. obstropulousness
  11. obstruct

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: obstringed (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: “obstringed.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/obstringed. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.