Word Meanings - HAMPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles; as, a hamper of wine; a clothes hamper; an oyster hamper, which contains two bushels.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HAMPER)

• Cramp
• Bind
• narrow
• restrict
• confine
• clog
• hamper
• fetter
• cripple
• Embarrass
• Entangle
• misconcert
• trouble
• perplex
• contuse
• distress
• puzzle
• encumber
• Entrammel
• impede
• obstruct
• decoy
• entrap

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HAMPER)

• Soothe
• compose
• please
• gratify
• gladden
• console
• elate
• comfort
• Enlighten
• instruct
• illumine
• Compose
• calm
• allay
• appease
• soothe
• delight
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

Related words: (words related to HAMPER)

• CRAMP
  A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron. (more info) Dan. krampe, G. krampf , Icel. krappr strait, 1. That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shakle; a hindrance.
• PUZZLEMENT
  The state of being puzzled; perplexity. Miss Mitford.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• PUZZLE
  1. Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making. 2. The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• COMFORTLESS
  Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• PUZZLEDOM
  The domain of puzzles; puzzles, collectively. C. Kingsley.
• INSTRUCTRESS
  A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
• ENTRAP
  To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men. A golden mesh, to entrap the hearts of
• DECOYER
  One who decoys another.
• ILLUMINER
  One who, or that which, illuminates.
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• COMFORTABLY
  In a comfortable or comforting manner. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Is. xl. 2.
• CONTUSE
  to beat, akin to Skr. tud to strike, Goth. stautan. See 1. To beat, pound, or together. Roots, barks, and seeds contused together. Bacon. 2. To bruise; to injure or disorganize a part without breaking the skin. Contused wound, a wound attended
• COMPOSE
  To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
• PERPLEX
  1. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts. No artful wildness to perplex the scene. Pope. What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our
• CRIPPLENESS
  Lameness. Johnson.
• COMPOSER
  1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and
• MANDELATE
  A salt of mandelic acid.
• UNPERPLEX
  To free from perplexity. Donne.
• PREINSTRUCT
  To instruct previously or beforehand. Dr. H. More.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• SPHACELATE
  To die, decay, or become gangrenous, as flesh or bone; to mortify.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• DISCOMFORTABLE
  1. Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable. A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets. Thackeray. -- Dis*com"fort*a*ble*ness, n.