Antonyms for no holds barred
Grammar : Adj, adv, noun |
Spell : hohld |
Phonetic Transcription : hoÊŠld |
- abridged
- accountable
- ambiguous
- bounded
- calculable
- calmly
- careful
- circumscribed
- complaisant
- compliant
- comprehensible
- conditional
- countable
- dependent
- dishonestly
- disputable
- doubtful
- doubtfully
- dubious
- ending
- equivocal
- exhaustible
- fathomable
- finite
- flawed
- gently
- imperfect
- implied
- incomplete
- indefinite
- indirectly
- indistinct
- inexact
- inhibited
- kindly
- later
- limited
- little
- measurable
- measureable
- mildly
- modest
- needy
- obscure
- obscured
- part
- partial
- qualified
- questionable
- questionably
- quietly
- restricted
- shy
- small
- submissive
- tamely
- tentative
- tiny
- tractable
- uncategorical
- uncertain
- unclear
- unfinished
- unsure
- vague
- yielding
Definition of no holds barred
Origin :- Old English haldan (Anglian), healdan (West Saxon), "to contain, grasp; retain; foster, cherish," class VII strong verb (past tense heold, past participle healden), from Proto-Germanic *haldanan (cf. Old Saxon haldan, Old Frisian halda, Old Norse halda, Dutch houden, German halten "to hold," Gothic haldan "to tend"), originally "to keep, tend, watch over" (as cattle), later "to have." Ancestral sense is preserved in behold. The original past participle holden was replaced by held beginning 16c., but survives in some legal jargon and in beholden.
- Hold back is 1530s, transitive; 1570s, intransitive; hold off is early 15c., transitive; c.1600, intransitive; hold out is 1520s as "to stretch forth," 1580s as "to resist pressure." Hold on is early 13c. as "to maintain one’s course," 1830 as "to keep one’s grip on something," 1846 as an order to wait or stop. To hold (one's) tongue "be silent" is from c.1300. To hold (one's) own is from early 14c. To hold (someone's) hand "give moral support" is from 1935. Phrase hold your horses "be patient" is from 1844. To have and to hold have been paired alliteratively since at least c.1200, originally of marriage but also of real estate.
- As in absolute : adj without limit
- As in limitless : adj never-ending, infinite
- As in unconditional : adj absolute, total
- As in unequivocal : adj definite, positive
- As in uninhibited : adj free and easy; without restraint
- As in boundless : adj endless, without limit
- As in categorical : adj explicit, unconditional
- As in unconditioned : adj unconditional
- As in positively : adv absolutely, definitely
- As in straight : adv honestly
- As in decidedly : adv certainly
- As in fiercely : adv violently, menacingly
- As in carte blanche : noun complete authority
Synonyms for no holds barred
- absolute
- absolutely
- actual
- all out
- amen
- angrily
- apparent
- assured
- assuredly
- audacious
- authority
- awfully
- blank check
- bloody
- boldly
- bottomless
- boundless
- brutally
- by all means
- candid
- candidly
- categorical
- categorically
- certain
- certainly
- clear
- clear-cut
- clearly
- complete
- consummate
- countless
- cut loose
- decided
- decisive
- decisively
- definite
- definitive
- determinate
- determinedly
- direct
- distinct
- distinctly
- doubtless
- doubtlessly
- downright
- easily
- emphatic
- emphatically
- endless
- entire
- evident
- expansive
- explicit
- express
- fancy-free
- ferociously
- final
- firmly
- flat
- flat out
- footloose
- for a fact
- forcefully
- forcibly
- forthright
- franchise
- frank
- frankly
- frantically
- free
- free hand
- free rein
- freedom
- frenziedly
- frighteningly
- full
- full authority
- full power
- furiously
- genuine
- grant
- great
- hanging out
- hard
- horribly
- illimitable
- immeasurable
- immense
- impetuously
- in a frenzy
- in plain English
- in spades
- incalculable
- incomprehensible
- incontestable
- incontrovertible
- indefinite
- indisputable
- indubitable
- indubitably
- inexhaustible
- infinite
- informal
- innumerable
- instinctive
- irresistibly
- latitude
- leeway
- liberated
- license
- like cats and dogs
- limitless
- madly
- maleficiently
- malevolently
- malignly
- manifest
- measureless
- mightily
- monstrous
- natural
- no catch
- no end of
- no end to
- no fine print
- no holds barred
- no ifs ands or buts
- no joke
- no kicker
- no mistake
- no punches
- no strings
- no strings attached
- numberless
- obvious
- of course
- off the cuff
- on the money
- on the nose
- open
- open and shut
- out-and-out
- outright
- palpable
- passionately
- patent
- permission
- plain
- plenary
- point-blank
- positive
- positively
- power of attorney
- powerful
- prerogative
- pure
- real
- really
- really truly
- relaxed
- right
- right on
- riotously
- roughly
- sanction
- savagely
- say
- say-so
- severely
- sheer
- simple
- specific
- spontaneous
- stormily
- straight
- straight out
- straightforward
- strongly
- supreme
- sure
- surely
- tempestuously
- terribly
- terrifically
- the ticket
- thorough
- thoroughgoing
- threateningly
- tigerishly
- to a tee
- tooth and nail
- total
- tremendous
- turbulently
- ultimate
- unabridged
- unadulterated
- unambiguous
- unbounded
- unbridled
- uncalculable
- unchecked
- unconditional
- unconditional authority
- unconditional right
- unconfined
- unconstrained
- uncontestable
- uncontrollably
- uncontrolled
- uncurbed
- undefined
- undeniable
- undeniably
- undisputable
- undoubtedly
- unending
- unequivocal
- unequivocally
- unfathomable
- ungoverned
- unhampered
- univocal
- unlimited
- unmistakable
- unmistakably
- unmitigated
- unqualified
- unquestionable
- unquestionably
- unrepressed
- unreserved
- unrestrained
- unrestricted
- unrestricted authority
- unself-conscious
- unsuppressed
- untold
- utter
- vast
- vehemently
- venomously
- viciously
- warrant
- whole
- wide
- wide open
- wide-open
- wildly
- with bared teeth
- with certainty
- without qualification
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