imposition

imposition is a 10-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
2. noun. That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax.
3. noun. An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.
4. noun. An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture.
5. noun. The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc.
6. noun. The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. See Impose, v. t., 4.
7. noun. the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo)

   Synonyms: infliction

8. noun. an uncalled-for burden

   "he listened but resented the imposition"

Synonyms

infliction

Common word forms

impositions, impositional

Words from these letters

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