self-imposed

Speech parts

1. self-imposed - Adjective

2. self-imposed - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Voluntarily taken on one's self; as, self-imposed tasks.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

freewill chosen willing conscious voluntary volunteer volitional unsolicited unasked unprompted unforced self-induced uncoerced hard-mouthed self-inflicted
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Antonyms

required forced necessary compulsory mandatory unwilling
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Examples

self-imposed exile Source: Internet

After 40 years of self-imposed silence, he now returns time and again to bear witness at Drancy, the transit center from where the French government deported tens of thousands of Jews into the hands of Nazis. Source: Internet

“And by seizing the opportunities that are in front of us and rejecting that piece of our culture, that self-imposed limitation, that idea that somehow that we’re in North Dakota, that we’re too small, that we’re too distant or we’re too cold.” Source: Internet

Censorship, both external and self-imposed, has choked my city – now irrevocably cracked by the invisible lines of yellow and pro-Beijing blue. Source: Internet

Burbidge and Sutton, (1979), pp. 345–6 However, Wagner relaxed some aspects of his self-imposed restrictions somewhat as the work progressed. Source: Internet

Cal Poly self-imposed a $5,000 fine for the infractions, but appealed the ruling that it must vacate records. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

self-important self-important person self-importantly self-imposed death self-imposed solitude self-imposture