Antonyms for bound upbound up

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1. bound upadjective

   closely or inseparably connected or associated with

   "his career is bound up with the fortunes of the enterprise"

   Antonyms:
   unrelated, uncommitted

   Synonyms:
   wrapped up

2. bound up, wrapped upadjective

   deeply devoted to

   "bound up in her teaching"; "is wrapped up in his family"

   Antonyms:
   unrelated, uncommitted

   Synonyms:
   wrapped up

How to use bound up in a sentence?

1. Haniel Long:

   So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

2. Edward Daniels:

   I am not going to speculate on that I'm afraid. That is very much bound up with when and how sanctions are unwound and that is a little bit in the lap of others.

3. Bertrand Russell:

   If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

4. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:

   The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized.

5. Deborah Powell:

   [On the screen] at the time there was a woman being slapped, naked, bound up… so, we had to have our children close their eyes, i could see another car behind us that had children in there with their eyes closed.

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