Antonyms for binding

Grammar : Adj, noun

Spell : bahyn-ding

Phonetic Transcription : ˈbaɪn dɪŋ

Definition of binding

Origin : mid-13c., verbal noun from bind (v.). Meaning "thing that binds" is from c.1300; "state of being bound" is from late 14c. Meaning "covering of a book" is recorded from 1640s.

adj necessary
adj confining
noun cover; something which fastens

Example sentences :

They were in the wheat-field, busy with the last sheaves; she raking and he binding.
Extract from : « Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home » by Bayard Taylor

I would like to know whether you are going to have a binding for Young People.
Extract from : « Harper's Young People, July 6, 1880 » by Various

It doesn't mean anything; that is, it is not binding legally, of course.
Extract from : « Mary-'Gusta » by Joseph C. Lincoln

In name at least you are king, and your signature is binding upon my subjects.
Extract from : « The Historical Nights' Entertainment » by Rafael Sabatini

A Muslim marriage is not binding upon a Christian, and I shall account it no marriage.
Extract from : « The Sea-Hawk » by Raphael Sabatini

So binding do I count them, that, if I would, I could not now draw back.
Extract from : « Scaramouche » by Rafael Sabatini

The consciousness of trust is of all things most binding on men of integrity.
Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

Any agreement we may make with you, he will recognise as binding.
Extract from : « The Destroyer » by Burton Egbert Stevenson

One man did the cradling and another the gathering and the binding into sheaves.
Extract from : « Rural Life and the Rural School » by Joseph Kennedy

The format is pleasant, the book-marker voluptuous, the binding Arty-and-Crafty.
Extract from : « A Great Man » by Arnold Bennett

Synonyms for binding

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