Antonyms for ball chain
| Grammar : Noun |
- advance
- advantage
- aid
- allowance
- assistance
- benefit
- blessing
- calmness
- contentment
- ease
- encouragement
- enlargement
- exculpation
- exoneration
- expansion
- expedition
- freedom
- happiness
- health
- help
- irresponsibility
- liberation
- opening
- peace
- permission
- pleasure
- praise
- promotion
- push
- release
- relief
- solution
- support
- tranquility
- triviality
- unimportance
Definition of ball chain
Origin :- a type of prisoner's restraint, 1818; as "one's wife," 1920.
- As in millstone : noun burden
- As in restriction : noun limit
- As in weight : noun burden
- As in white elephant : noun expensive possession
- As in burden : noun mental weight; stress
- As in ball and chain : noun great hindrance
- As in encumbrance : noun burden
- As in hindrance : noun obstruction, difficulty
Synonyms for ball chain
- accountability
- affliction
- albatross
- anxiety
- baggage
- ball and chain
- bar
- barrier
- blame
- bounds
- brake
- burden
- burthen
- care
- catch
- Catch-22
- charge
- check
- circumscription
- clog
- concern
- condition
- confinement
- constraint
- containment
- contraction
- control
- cramp
- crimp
- cross
- cumber
- cumbrance
- curb
- custody
- deadweight
- debt
- demarcation
- deterrent
- difficulty
- drag
- drawback
- duty
- encumbrance
- excess baggage
- fine print
- foot dragging
- girlfriend
- glitch
- grain of salt
- gridlock
- grievance
- guilt
- handicap
- hang-up
- hardship
- Herculean task
- hindrance
- hitch
- impedance
- impediment
- inhibition
- interference
- interruption
- intervention
- jam-up
- joker
- limitation
- limits
- little woman
- load
- lock
- mental weight
- millstone
- misfortune
- mishap
- monkey on one's back
- monkey wrench
- more trouble than it's worth
- no-no
- obstacle
- obstruction
- old lady
- old woman
- onus
- oppression
- pressure
- punishment
- qualification
- regulation
- reservation
- responsibility
- restraint
- restriction
- rule
- saddle
- small difficulty
- snag
- sorrow
- stint
- stipulation
- stoppage
- strain
- stress
- stricture
- string
- stumbling block
- task
- tax
- thorn in one's side
- trammel
- trial
- trouble
- weary load
- weight
- wife
- work
- worry
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