disempowering
adjective
uk/ˌdɪs.ɪmˈpaʊ.ə.rɪŋ/us/ˌdɪs.ɪmˈpaʊ.ɚ.ɪŋ/making youfeelthat you have nocontroloveryourlifeand nopowertochangethings:
It's very disempowering to have everything done for you byyourparents.
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- Theprocesshas beencompletelydisempowering foryoungpeople.
- There'straditionallybeen nothing more disempowering thanbecomingahospitalpatient.
- Tellingpeoplethey have achronicmentalillnesscan be a disempoweringmessage.
- Some ofyourcriticshave said that what you do is disempowering to women and they haveproblemswith it.
Lack of freedom to act
- be in bondage tosomethingidiom
- be locked insomething
- bondage
- bound
- boxed in
- disempowered
- disenfranchisement
- heel
- lock
- non-voluntary
- nonindependence
- qualified
- regimented
- servitude
- shackle
- someone'shands are tiedidiom
- tethered
- thumb
- tie
- undersomeone'sthumbidiom
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