deskbound

1. 1.

   restricted to working in an office rather than in an active physical capacity

   Synonymsdesk-bound

   Similarinactive

Other forms of deskbound

comparative

deskbounder·

superlative

deskboundest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about deskbound

What does deskbound mean?

deskbound means "restricted to working in an office rather than in an active physical capacity".

How many syllables are in deskbound?

deskbound has 2 syllables: desk-bound. The stress falls on "desk".

What is another word for deskbound?

Close synonyms include desk-bound. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is deskbound a common word?

deskbound is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.