out-of-bounds

1. 1.

   outside the foul lines

   Similarfoul
2. 2.

   barred to a designated group

   “that area is off-limits”

   Synonymsoff-limits

   Similarrestricted

Questions about out-of-bounds

What does out-of-bounds mean?

out-of-bounds means "outside the foul lines". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in out-of-bounds?

out-of-bounds has 3 syllables: ou-t-of--bounds. The stress falls on "ou".

What is another word for out-of-bounds?

Close synonyms include off-limits. 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 out-of-bounds a common word?

out-of-bounds 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.