What is another word for restrained?
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[ ɹɪstɹˈe͡ɪnd], [ ɹɪstɹˈeɪnd], [ ɹ_ɪ_s_t_ɹ_ˈeɪ_n_d]Table of Contents
Similar words for restrained:- all (adjective)
- aseptic (adjective)
- bonded (adjective)
- bound (adjective)
- calm, quiet (adjective)
- chary (adjective)
- chaste (adjective)
- classical (adjective)
- concealed (adjective)
- confined (adjective)
- continent (adjective)
- controlled (adjective)
- discreet (adjective)
- distant (adjective)
- dry (adjective)
- finite (adjective)
- guarded (adjective)
- handicapped (adjective)
- inobtrusive (adjective)
- introverted (adjective)
- low-key (adjective)
- measured (adjective)
- moderate (adjective)
- noncommittal (adjective)
- on the wagon (adjective)
- orderly (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- pent-up (adjective)
- plain (adjective)
- prohibited (adjective)
- quarantined (adjective)
- quiet (adjective)
- reasonable (adjective)
- refined (adjective)
- reserved (adjective)
- restrained (adjective)
- restricted (adjective)
- reticent (adjective)
- retiring (adjective)
- self-controlled (adjective)
- self-restrained (adjective)
- silenced (adjective)
- silent (adjective)
- sober (adjective)
- subdued (adjective)
- tasteful (adjective)
- temperate (adjective)
- tight-lipped (adjective)
- uncommitted (adjective)
- unobtrusive (adjective)
- withdrawn (adjective)
- withheld (adjective)
- bated (noun)
- cautious (noun)
- checked (noun)
- contained (noun)
- curbed (noun)
- low-keyed (noun)
- modest (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- controlled (verb)
- dissuaded (verb)
- hindered (verb)
- limited (verb)
- moderate (verb)
- moderated (verb)
- prohibited (verb)
- other synonyms
- meek
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Restrained:
adj.
•all (adjective) •aseptic (adjective) •bonded (adjective) •bound (adjective)- under compulsion,
- fated,
- obliged,
- under necessity,
- duty-bound,
- apprenticed,
- enslaved,
- having no alternative,
- impelled,
- Urged,
- articled.
- undemonstrative,
- under wraps,
- chilled,
- bottled up,
- in charge,
- cool,
- soft,
- uptight,
- unexcessive,
- muted,
- calm and collected,
- corked up,
- steady,
- in check,
- under control,
- mild,
- unextreme,
- shrinking,
- on a leash,
- laid-back,
- conservative.
- neater,
- de cent,
- in-experienced,
- unwed,
- un defiled,
- un-contaminated,
- more intemerate,
- in experienced,
- un-sullied,
- more monogamous,
- impotent,
- un-stained,
- prudish,
- un-blemished,
- most intemerate,
- un-defiled,
- un-affected,
- un sullied,
- un wed,
- in nocent,
- more uncontaminated,
- un stained,
- un-wed,
- most monogamous,
- most uncontaminated,
- de-cent,
- un contaminated,
- un affected,
- un blemished,
- in-nocent.
- most understated,
- more wellproportioned,
- under-stated,
- well proportioned,
- most well proportioned,
- wellproportioned,
- more well-proportioned,
- under stated,
- most well-proportioned,
- more well proportioned,
- understated,
- most wellproportioned,
- more understated.
- more hog-tied,
- more circumscribed,
- in disposed,
- most hog-tied,
- most compassed,
- more iced,
- most invalided,
- in commodious,
- most grounded,
- crampest,
- more pent,
- imprisoned,
- in-disposed,
- most detained,
- more hogtied,
- more immured,
- more hampered,
- more bedfast,
- most hampered,
- more invalided,
- most iced,
- most pent,
- most bedfast,
- more detained,
- most hogtied,
- most chilled,
- in-commodious,
- more incarcerated,
- most circumscribed,
- more hog tied,
- most immured,
- more grounded,
- Incarcerated,
- more compassed,
- most incarcerated,
- sickest,
- on ice,
- more chilled,
- most hog tied.
- re-mote,
- un-friendly,
- un-companionable,
- most insociable,
- in sociable,
- most standoff,
- in-sociable,
- put airs,
- un concerned,
- un-friendlier,
- un friendlier,
- un-approachable,
- most uncompanionable,
- unapproachable,
- un-friendliest,
- up pity,
- un approachable,
- un companionable,
- un sociable,
- stuckup,
- more uncompanionable,
- un-concerned,
- un-sociable,
- un friendliest,
- up-pity,
- more insociable,
- more standoff,
- Insociable.
- over cautious,
- most overcautious,
- most overcareful,
- over careful,
- more overcautious,
- more overcareful,
- over-cautious.
- more obstructed,
- most balked,
- encumbered,
- most stymied,
- dis advantaged,
- Mentally Disabled,
- more foiled,
- most blocked,
- most impeded,
- more deterred,
- most encumbered,
- most foiled,
- more impeded,
- dis-advantaged,
- more stymied,
- more blocked,
- most obstructed,
- more encumbered,
- most deterred,
- more balked,
- impeded.
- could hear pin drop,
- un expressed,
- in-obtrusive,
- in-audible,
- un-expressed,
- most hushful,
- in obtrusive,
- whistest,
- most quieted,
- un uttered,
- more quieted,
- in audible,
- whister,
- more hushful.
- soothing,
- innocuous,
- relaxed,
- not excessive,
- mid-way,
- calm,
- gentle,
- non-partisan,
- composed,
- alleviated,
- tranquil,
- disciplined,
- peaceable,
- easy,
- pacific.
- unrevealing,
- clammed up,
- buttoned up,
- non-committal,
- Middle-ground,
- even steven,
- on-the-fence,
- even-steven.
- free alcohol,
- non indulgent,
- on wagon,
- period abstinence,
- un intoxicated,
- more abstaining,
- most abstaining,
- un-intoxicated,
- most unintoxicated,
- most nonindulgent,
- more unintoxicated,
- not partaking alcohol,
- took pledge,
- more nonindulgent,
- non-indulgent.
- classical,
- abstemious,
- period of abstinence,
- nonindulgent,
- tasteful,
- cold sober,
- sworn off,
- unobtrusive,
- whist,
- discreet,
- uncontaminated,
- laid back,
- dry,
- cooped up,
- drying out,
- uncurious,
- over-careful,
- self-controlled,
- abstinent,
- stuck up,
- overcareful,
- took the pledge,
- confined,
- not saying boo,
- silent,
- stripped down,
- with eyes peeled,
- put on airs,
- overcautious,
- quiet,
- introverted,
- in chains,
- unassertive,
- could hear a pin drop,
- iced,
- Self-restrained,
- not drunk,
- stone cold sober,
- Manacled,
- reasonable,
- continent,
- non-gregarious,
- Uncompanionable,
- bedfast,
- guarded,
- refined,
- dried up,
- aseptic,
- not forward,
- hushful,
- bound,
- low-key,
- handicapped,
- down in mouth,
- Unaffable,
- unexpansive,
- not partaking of alcohol,
- on the wagon,
- chary,
- rabbity,
- chaste,
- retiring,
- not drinking,
- on the lookout,
- reticent,
- distant,
- sober,
- subdued,
- uncommitted,
- quarantined,
- bonded,
- pent-up,
- eremitic,
- retained,
- reined in,
- temperate,
- virginal,
- unspeaking,
- cramper,
- flattened out,
- locked up,
- in jail,
- reserved,
- out of spirits,
- monogamous,
- shut in,
- dummied up,
- low-profile,
- moderate,
- Physically Challenged,
- withdrawn,
- unintoxicated,
- controlled,
- Physically Disabled,
- Intemerate,
- noncommittal,
- nongregarious,
- free of alcohol,
- well-proportioned,
- sealed up,
- invalided,
- high-brow,
- plain.
- Curtailed,
- forbidden,
- prohibited,
- Precluded,
- Disallowed,
- suppressed,
- disapproved,
- Refused,
- outlawed,
- rejected,
- Denied.
- wellbred,
- high brow,
- re-fined,
- most high-brow,
- most high brow,
- ex-act,
- ex act,
- well bred,
- sub lime,
- more high brow,
- high minded,
- more aesthetic,
- sub-lime,
- highminded,
- re fined,
- more high-brow.
- re served,
- most eremitic,
- un responsive,
- un-demonstrative,
- re-served,
- un-responsive,
- more eremitic,
- un demonstrative,
- self contained,
- mis-anthropic,
- self-contained,
- selfcontained,
- mis anthropic.
- more barred,
- more clogged,
- more hitched,
- de-creased,
- most secured,
- sur rounded,
- more secured,
- more diminished,
- most narrowed,
- more shortened,
- encircled,
- more tethered,
- de creased,
- pre-vented,
- most barred,
- sur-rounded,
- pre-scribed,
- most stayed,
- most tethered,
- more encircled,
- more stayed,
- most shortened,
- pre vented,
- most clogged,
- most decreased,
- more decreased,
- most hitched,
- most diminished,
- most encircled,
- more narrowed.
- more unspeaking,
- un speaking,
- more unforthcoming,
- un-forthcoming,
- up-tight,
- up tight,
- most unspeaking,
- un forthcoming,
- most unforthcoming,
- un-speaking.
- most unassertive,
- more unaffable,
- more unassertive,
- self effacing,
- non gregarious,
- most rabbity,
- more nongregarious,
- more unexpansive,
- more withdrawing,
- un affable,
- un-expansive,
- un-affable,
- more rabbity,
- un assertive,
- most withdrawing,
- selfeffacing,
- with-drawing,
- with drawing,
- most nongregarious,
- re-tiring,
- most unexpansive,
- most unaffable,
- re tiring,
- un-assertive,
- recessive,
- un expansive.
- Inconversable,
- closed up,
- Nonvocal,
- wordless,
- unheard,
- Husher,
- Silentious,
- not talkative,
- struck dumb.
- down mouth,
- more tempered,
- shaded,
- most chastened,
- out spirits,
- most tempered,
- more chastened,
- more moderated,
- down the mouth,
- most moderated.
- prudent,
- self-depriving,
- self-denying,
- frugal,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- Abnegating,
- self-restraining,
- Sober-minded.
- most low profile,
- more soft-pedaled,
- most soft pedaled,
- un ostentatious,
- in-conspicuous,
- more lowprofile,
- un obtrusive,
- un-obtrusive,
- most softpedaled,
- more soft pedaled,
- more softpedaled,
- most soft-pedaled,
- most low-profile,
- more low profile,
- un-noticeable,
- most lowprofile,
- unnoticeable,
- un noticeable,
- lowprofile,
- more low-profile,
- un-ostentatious,
- in conspicuous.
n.
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- blank,
- unresponsive,
- neutral.
v.
•controlled (verb) •dissuaded (verb)- Prevented,
- discouraged,
- inhibited,
- Deflected,
- admonished,
- Deterred,
- barred,
- diverted,
- Averted,
- Dissuaded,
- intimidated,
- Dampened,
- Derailed,
- depressed,
- banned,
- daunted,
- disinclined,
- disheartened.
- mired,
- Bunged,
- entangled,
- cramped,
- tangled,
- delayed,
- crippled,
- Stayed,
- fouled,
- choked,
- frustrated,
- Crimped,
- Dammed,
- constipated,
- burdened,
- jammed,
- baffled,
- bottlenecked,
- plugged,
- interrupted,
- countered,
- opposed,
- Dragged,
- complicated,
- Hamstrung,
- Caught,
- clogged,
- Entrapped,
- obstructed,
- Hampered,
- stopped,
- impaired,
- Resisted,
- paralyzed,
- braked,
- Snagged,
- Detained,
- congested,
- snarled,
- blocked,
- Hindered,
- thwarted.
- edged,
- rimmed,
- terminated,
- bordered,
- ended.
Other synonyms:
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- hardened,
- dry-eyed,
- passive,
- blankly,
- callous,
- emptiness,
- unmoved,
- impassive,
- Neutrally,
- dispassionate,
- hard-nosed,
- no-nonsense,
- unfeeling,
- Hard-hearted,
- poker-faced,
- emotionless,
- cavalier,
- starchy,
- unforthcoming,
- Inobtrusive,
- mildly,
- glassy-eyed,
- inured,
- elegant,
- hard-bitten.
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- glassy,
- flatly,
- extreme,
- impervious,
- repression,
- soulless,
- detached,
- matter of fact,
- flinty,
- evenly,
- Hard-headed,
- restraint.
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- reserve.
- peaceful,
- fitting,
- placid,
- sedate,
- chained,
- Recoiled,
- ricocheted,
- sane,
- reluctant,
- reduced,
- suspicious,
- in hand,
- smooth,
- discriminating,
- unexaggerated,
- nursed,
- Throttled,
- unembellished,
- Cabined,
- harmonious,
- supported,
- brash,
- charming,
- chilly,
- agreed,
- unostentatious,
- cloistered,
- unexcited,
- ungenial,
- Stilled,
- unpretentious,
- Caged,
- hushed,
- apprehensive,
- Commanded,
- strangled,
- straightforward,
- grave,
- cooled down,
- concealed,
- meek,
- undisturbed,
- gracile,
- antisocial,
- strait-laced,
- chastened,
- toned down,
- neat,
- Defended,
- enclosed,
- dignified,
- saved,
- crushed,
- hemmed in,
- hesitant,
- pinioned,
- observed,
- mindful,
- untalkative,
- cold,
- silenced,
- serious,
- compulsory,
- well-chosen,
- uncommunicative,
- in control,
- dominated,
- modified,
- tamed,
- pure,
- informal,
- preserved,
- Ceased,
- rigid,
- not extreme,
- self-effacing,
- forbidding,
- walled,
- kept down,
- Paled,
- sparing,
- icy,
- Prevailed,
- retarded,
- Cooped,
- formal,
- beset,
- pleasing,
- standoffish,
- rebounded,
- besieged,
- sensible,
- Cumbered,
- unadorned,
- color-coded,
- penned,
- Bounced,
- unsocial,
- Managed,
- compelled,
- removed,
- serene,
- finished,
- unnatural,
- modulated,
- round,
- Refrained,
- admitted,
- subjugated,
- correct,
- polite,
- perspicuous,
- Incommunicable,
- frigid,
- governed,
- maintained,
- close-mouthed,
- decorous,
- Carried,
- clear,
- heedful,
- demure,
- bleached,
- clean,
- Coactive,
- blockaded,
- backward,
- abashed,
- close,
- rational,
- minor,
- Reined,
- wedged,
- unruffled,
- closed in,
- Accommodated,
- cultivated,
- taciturn,
- fastidious,
- ashamed,
- ruled,
- simple,
- Snared,
- Immured,
- embarrassed,
- on leash,
- applied,
- serious-minded,
- halted,
- stiff,
- fit,
- bright,
- Yoked,
- regulated,
- prim,
- chintzy,
- mellow,
- ensnared,
- cordoned,
- lowly,
- attic,
- Adjudged,
- polished,
- incommodious,
- natural,
- Unlabored,
- conquered,
- stinting,
- loath,
- held in,
- celebrated,
- Mewed,
- tied,
- colored,
- philosophical,
- phlegmatical,
- artistic,
- unimpassioned,
- booked,
- qualified,
- lucid,
- under restraint,
- standoff,
- proper,
- straitened,
- stiffened,
- declared,
- unspectacular,
- repressed,
- fenced,
- in custody,
- loth,
- corralled,
- Waited,
- unenthusiastic,
- tactful,
- unpretending,
- under hatches,
- unaffected,
- graceful,
- Comme Il Faut,
- self-conscious,
- soft-shoe,
- unflashy,
- trapped,
- slowed down,
- Cool-headed,
- in swaddling clothes,
- tempered,
- uncongenial,
- tight-lipped,
- in good taste,
- Stinted,
- equable,
- coy,
- ice-cold,
- Hemmed,
- enchained,
- staid,
- direct,
- arrested,
- tightened up,
- subtle,
- quelled,
- small,
- smothered,
- Obtained,
- hedged,
- shy,
- orderly,
- walled-in,
- pent,
- harnessed,
- still,
- discriminative,
- tasty,
- expressionless,
- Defied,
- in leading strings,
- circumscribed,
- basic,
- solemn,
- shamefaced,
- even-tempered,
- Railed,
- aloof,
- stifled,
- aesthetic,
- forbearing,
- Harbored,
- phlegmatic,
- ablaze,
- considerate,
- bottled-up,
- Beleaguered,
- Concurred,
- wary,
- excellent,
- terse,
- careful,
- Cribbed,
- trim,
- remote,
- jailed,
- choice,
- pellucid,
- knocked down,
- bashful,
- Proceeded,
- self-possessed,
- apprehended,
- limpid,
- inaccessible,
- disabled,
- offish,
- Strangulated,
- cagey,
- unadventurous,
- severe,
- cordoned off,
- low,
- Jumped,
- prisoner,
- harboured,
- equanimous,
- continued,
- Haltered,
- impersonal,
- circumspect,
- raised,
- entertained,
- stable,
- jammed in,
- imperturbable,
- unassuming,
- wedged in,
- classic,
- muddled,
- Deemed,
- unperturbed,
- in remission,
- warmed up,
- frosty,
- undecorated.
Paraphrases for Restrained:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
limited, restricted.
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Proper noun, singular
restricted.
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Verb, past participle
curbed, restricted, constrained.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
measured, reserved, cautious, low-key, locked-in, prudent, self-restraint, constrained, unrestricted, reluctant, inhibited, frozen, hesitant, unfettered, moderated, constraining, committed, tethered, finite, careful, narrow, attached, sober, unlimited, immobilized.
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Verb, past tense
retained, Detained, confiscated, seized, Garnered, Caught, suspended, identified, Galvanized, absorbed, Froze, Captured, withheld, hired, learned, engaged, Upheld, Attracted, Stayed, Chose, used, Levied, remembered, Picked, held, buttoned, limited.
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Verb, past participle
strained, Reined, retained, Detained, stifled, asserted, discouraged, Hindered, minimised, impeded, Curtailed, mitigated, suppressed, maintained, harnessed, Prevented, frustrated, minimized, stopped, relaxed, contained, extinguished, Hampered, confined, conserved, disrupted, Perpetuated, subdued, tightened, understood, countered, seized, Caught, Dampened, nominated, paralysed, fastened, mastered, Invoked, abridged, constricted, pinned, Capitalized, Managed, obstructed, suspended, halted, stymied, Hamstrung, Infringed, identified, affected, Precluded, handled, depressed, proscribed, overcome, Tackled, undermined, guarded, stemmed, encumbered, Seconded, tempered, governed, preserved, immobilised, shackled, conquered, Striven, stored, Jeopardized, Captured, withheld, Adhered, Stalled, trapped, Handcuffed, hired, Appended, bound, required, obliged, narrowed, Procured, Strapped, localized, shortlisted, Learnt, stuck, learned, checked, impacted, admitted, tied, endeavoured, assumed, stranded, engaged, recorded, Screened, stretched, diluted, obligated, Relied, Grabbed, blockaded, Upheld, wired, delayed, braked, Attracted, Anchored, blocked, clustered, burdened, affixed, Stayed, owned, Housed, Compromised, locked, Cared, Slowed, bordered, continued, used, Stumped, contracted, deadlocked, capped, remembered, Picked, kept, embodied, stunted, drawn, sampled, embedded, held, conditioned, opted, wedded, Echoed, Grounded, jammed, Dealt, focused, booked, limited, measured, circumscribed, unrestricted, inhibited, frozen, moderated, committed, attached, immobilized.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
reticent, moderate, modest, restrictive, circumspect, circumscribed, timid, considerate, conservative.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Restrained:
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adj.
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unrestrained.
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calm, quiet
outgoing, extroverted, confident, friendly, communicative, bold, assured.
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Other antonyms:
incautious, frilly, rococo, tacky, tawdry, baroque, fancy, vulgar, overdone, noisy, meretricious, pretentious, graceless, demonstrative, gilded.
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