Synonyms for Restrained:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • unemotional,
  • restrained.
  •aseptic (adjective)
  • most purifying,
  • more purifying.
  •bonded (adjective)
  • most manacled,
  • most chained,
  • more manacled,
  • most fettered,
  • more fettered,
  • more chained,
  • fettered.
  •bound (adjective)
  • under compulsion,
  • fated,
  • obliged,
  • under necessity,
  • duty-bound,
  • apprenticed,
  • enslaved,
  • having no alternative,
  • impelled,
  • Urged,
  • articled.
  •calm, quiet (adjective)
  • 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.
  •chary (adjective)
  • uneasy,
  • gingerly,
  • safest,
  • SAFER.
  •chaste (adjective)
  • 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.
  •classical (adjective)
  • 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.
  •concealed (adjective)
  • withheld.
  •confined (adjective)
  • 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.
  •continent (adjective)
  • abstentious.
  •controlled (adjective)
  • un flappable.
  •discreet (adjective)
  • having foresight,
  • on lookout,
  • like a clam,
  • not rash,
  • Precautious,
  • wisest,
  • worldly wise,
  • observant.
  •distant (adjective)
  • 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.
  •dry (adjective)
  • salty.
  •finite (adjective)
  • finite,
  • limited,
  • restricted,
  • bounded,
  • constrained.
  •guarded (adjective)
  • over cautious,
  • most overcautious,
  • most overcareful,
  • over careful,
  • more overcautious,
  • more overcareful,
  • over-cautious.
  •handicapped (adjective)
  • 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.
  •inobtrusive (adjective)
  • 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.
  •introverted (adjective)
  • introspective.
  •low-key (adjective)
  • low key,
  • soft-sell.
  •measured (adjective)
  • timed.
  •moderate (adjective)
  • soothing,
  • innocuous,
  • relaxed,
  • not excessive,
  • mid-way,
  • calm,
  • gentle,
  • non-partisan,
  • composed,
  • alleviated,
  • tranquil,
  • disciplined,
  • peaceable,
  • easy,
  • pacific.
  •noncommittal (adjective)
  • unrevealing,
  • clammed up,
  • buttoned up,
  • non-committal,
  • Middle-ground,
  • even steven,
  • on-the-fence,
  • even-steven.
  •on the wagon (adjective)
  • 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.
  •orderly (adjective)
  • at peace,
  • wellmannered,
  • non-violent,
  • law-abiding.
  •pent-up (adjective)
  • held-back,
  • held in check.
  •plain (adjective)
  • un-varnished,
  • un varnished.
  •prohibited (adjective)
  • Curtailed,
  • forbidden,
  • prohibited,
  • Precluded,
  • Disallowed,
  • suppressed,
  • disapproved,
  • Refused,
  • outlawed,
  • rejected,
  • Denied.
  •quarantined (adjective)
  • under quarantine,
  • sealed off.
  •quiet (adjective)
  • quietest,
  • Quieter.
  •reasonable (adjective)
  • within reason,
  • standing to reason,
  • making sense.
  •refined (adjective)
  • 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.
  •reserved (adjective)
  • 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.
  •restrained (adjective)
  • tethered,
  • Leashed,
  • constricted,
  • shackled,
  • Bridled,
  • Collared.
  •restricted (adjective)
  • 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.
  •reticent (adjective)
  • more unspeaking,
  • un speaking,
  • more unforthcoming,
  • un-forthcoming,
  • up-tight,
  • up tight,
  • most unspeaking,
  • un forthcoming,
  • most unforthcoming,
  • un-speaking.
  •retiring (adjective)
  • 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.
  •self-controlled (adjective)
  • selfcontrolled,
  • self controlled.
  •self-restrained (adjective)
  • selfrestrained,
  • self restrained.
  •silenced (adjective)
  • held down.
  •silent (adjective)
  • Inconversable,
  • closed up,
  • Nonvocal,
  • wordless,
  • unheard,
  • Husher,
  • Silentious,
  • not talkative,
  • struck dumb.
  •sober (adjective)
  • teetotaling,
  • hardboiled,
  • no nonsense,
  • forgoing,
  • Clear-headed.
  •subdued (adjective)
  • down mouth,
  • more tempered,
  • shaded,
  • most chastened,
  • out spirits,
  • most tempered,
  • more chastened,
  • more moderated,
  • down the mouth,
  • most moderated.
  •tasteful (adjective)
  • splendiferous,
  • esthetic,
  • aesthetically pleasing,
  • uptown.
  •temperate (adjective)
  • prudent,
  • self-depriving,
  • self-denying,
  • frugal,
  • ascetic,
  • austere,
  • Abnegating,
  • self-restraining,
  • Sober-minded.
  •tight-lipped (adjective)
  • tight lipped.
  •uncommitted (adjective)
  • unpledged,
  • free spirited,
  • non-aligned,
  • unaffiliated,
  • fence-sitting,
  • free-spirited.
  •unobtrusive (adjective)
  • 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.
  •withdrawn (adjective)
  • dis-interested,
  • more uncurious,
  • in curious,
  • re tired,
  • in-curious,
  • in different,
  • in-different,
  • re-treated,
  • re treated,
  • un-interested,
  • most uncurious,
  • un interested,
  • most retreated,
  • with-drawn,
  • with drawn,
  • dis interested,
  • un curious,
  • more retreated,
  • un-curious.
  •withheld (adjective)
  • with-held,
  • with held.

• n.

  •
  • blank,
  • unresponsive,
  • neutral.
  •bated (noun)
  • bated.
  •cautious (noun)
  • cautious.
  •checked (noun)
  • checked.
  •contained (noun)
  • contained.
  •curbed (noun)
  • curbed.
  •low-keyed (noun)
  • low-keyed.
  •modest (noun)
  • modest.

• v.

  •controlled (verb)
  • check.
  •dissuaded (verb)
  • Prevented,
  • discouraged,
  • inhibited,
  • Deflected,
  • admonished,
  • Deterred,
  • barred,
  • diverted,
  • Averted,
  • Dissuaded,
  • intimidated,
  • Dampened,
  • Derailed,
  • depressed,
  • banned,
  • daunted,
  • disinclined,
  • disheartened.
  •hindered (verb)
  • 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.
  •limited (verb)
  • edged,
  • rimmed,
  • terminated,
  • bordered,
  • ended.
  •moderate (verb)
  • measured.
  •moderated (verb)
  • eased,
  • Calmed,
  • cooled,
  • Pacified,
  • Soothed,
  • Tranquilized,
  • softened,
  • Abated,
  • moderated,
  • Quieted.
  •prohibited (verb)
  • disqualified,
  • Forbade,
  • oppressed.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • 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.
  •
  • glassy,
  • flatly,
  • extreme,
  • impervious,
  • repression,
  • soulless,
  • detached,
  • matter of fact,
  • flinty,
  • evenly,
  • Hard-headed,
  • restraint.
  •
  • down,
  • inert,
  • robotic,
  • distantly,
  • empty.
  •
  • reserve.
  •meek
  • humble.
  •Other relevant words:
  • 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:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    limited, restricted.
  • Proper noun, singular
    restricted.
  • Verb, past participle
    curbed, restricted, constrained.

• Independent

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    reticent, moderate, modest, restrictive, circumspect, circumscribed, timid, considerate, conservative.

Antonyms for Restrained:

• adj.

  • all
    unrestrained.
  • calm, quiet
    outgoing, extroverted, confident, friendly, communicative, bold, assured.
  • Other antonyms:
    incautious, frilly, rococo, tacky, tawdry, baroque, fancy, vulgar, overdone, noisy, meretricious, pretentious, graceless, demonstrative, gilded.

Homophones for Restrained:

• registrant, restraint, restaurant.