Synonyms for Restraint:

• n.

  •
  • coolness,
  • laxity,
  • range,
  • self-restraint,
  • formality,
  • self-government,
  • withholding,
  • reserve,
  • forbearance,
  • self-control,
  • unnaturalness,
  • slackness,
  • reticence,
  • abstemiousness,
  • caution,
  • silence,
  • secretiveness.
  •
  • captivity,
  • chains,
  • subjection,
  • dependence,
  • handcuffs,
  • capture,
  • surrender.
  •
  • limited.
  •
  • limit,
  • cramp.
  •
  • bit.
  •
  • chain,
  • fetter,
  • bond,
  • manacle.
  •abstemiousness (noun)
  • ascetics,
  • temperatenesses,
  • temperateness.
  •accountability, blame (noun)
  • responsibility.
  •act (noun)
  • restraint.
  •arrest (noun)
  • halt,
  • stalling,
  • end,
  • Staying,
  • Checking,
  • stay,
  • blockage,
  • delay,
  • cessation,
  • interruption,
  • suspension,
  • Restraining.
  •attribute (noun)
  • control.
  •avoidance (noun)
  • dodging,
  • steering clear of,
  • shirking,
  • elusion,
  • nonparticipation,
  • passive resistance,
  • shunning,
  • recession,
  • absention,
  • eschewal,
  • escape,
  • runaround,
  • departure,
  • elusions,
  • circumvention,
  • escapism,
  • retreat,
  • recoil,
  • evasion,
  • dodge,
  • parry,
  • run-around,
  • flight.
  •bar (noun)
  • clog,
  • hurdle,
  • snag,
  • deterrent,
  • fence,
  • stumbling block,
  • traverse,
  • barricade,
  • railing,
  • rail,
  • block,
  • blank wall,
  • pale,
  • wall,
  • encumbrance,
  • road block.
  •barrier (noun)
  • drawback,
  • handicap,
  • difficulty,
  • preventive.
  •barrier; blockage (noun)
  • bar.
  •bearing hardship; staying power (noun)
  • endurance.
  •bond (noun)
  • attachment,
  • friendship,
  • hookup,
  • obligation,
  • connective,
  • network,
  • tie-in,
  • interrelationship,
  • connection,
  • marriage,
  • union,
  • tie,
  • liaison,
  • affiliation,
  • affinity,
  • relationship,
  • link.
  •brake (noun)
  • anchor,
  • discouragement,
  • retarding device,
  • hamper,
  • binders,
  • damper,
  • cinchers.
  •bridle (noun)
  • halter,
  • trammels,
  • leash,
  • headstall,
  • hackamore.
  •burden (noun)
  • imposition.
  •calm (noun)
  • dispassion,
  • hush,
  • placidity,
  • stillness,
  • patience,
  • placidness,
  • doldrums,
  • peace of mind,
  • lull,
  • stoicism,
  • repose,
  • calmness,
  • Imperturbation,
  • peacefulness,
  • tranquillity,
  • impassivity,
  • serenity,
  • peace,
  • quiet,
  • tranquility,
  • rest,
  • quietude.
  •captivity (noun)
  • durance,
  • vassalage,
  • vassalages,
  • internments,
  • impoundment,
  • subjections,
  • impoundments,
  • durances,
  • internment,
  • committal,
  • committals.
  •celibacy, chastity (noun)
  • virginity.
  •celibacy, purity (noun)
  • chastity.
  •chasteness (noun)
  • chasteness.
  •chastity (noun)
  • sinlessness,
  • monogamy,
  • up rightnesses,
  • up-rightness,
  • chastenesses,
  • immaculacy,
  • spotlessnesses,
  • immaculacies,
  • sinlessnesses,
  • monogamies,
  • virtuousness,
  • up rightness,
  • up-rightnesses,
  • spotlessness.
  •circumscription (noun)
  • curbings.
  •clasp, embrace (noun)
  • grip.
  •coercion (noun)
  • violence,
  • strong-arm tactics,
  • strongarm tactics,
  • browbeatings,
  • bullyings,
  • strongarm tactic,
  • strong arm tactic,
  • menacings,
  • threatenings,
  • intimidation,
  • strong-arm tactic.
  •command (noun)
  • expertism,
  • knowhow,
  • primacy.
  •compulsion (noun)
  • coercion.
  •confinement, imprisonment (noun)
  • detention.
  •constraint (noun)
  • no-no,
  • a must,
  • nono,
  • drivings,
  • timidity,
  • constraint,
  • constrainment,
  • no no,
  • a musts,
  • no no's,
  • no nos,
  • impulsion,
  • impulsions,
  • nono's,
  • nonos,
  • no-no's,
  • no-nos,
  • constrainments,
  • impellings.
  •constriction (noun)
  • stricture.
  •control (noun)
  • juice,
  • wire pulling,
  • containments,
  • predomination,
  • containment.
  •cultivated beauty, taste (noun)
  • elegance.
  •curb (noun)
  • re strainer,
  • restrainers,
  • re-strainer,
  • restrainer,
  • re strainers,
  • re-strainers.
  •detention (noun)
  • withholdings,
  • arrestations,
  • with holdings,
  • immurements,
  • Arrestation,
  • immurement,
  • holding pen,
  • time river,
  • holding backs,
  • time the river,
  • time up river,
  • quarantine,
  • keeping ins,
  • with-holdings,
  • with-holding,
  • time up the river,
  • with holding,
  • holding pens,
  • keeping in.
  •difficulty, trouble (noun)
  • disadvantage(s).
  •disadvantage(s) (noun)
  • Discommodity,
  • dis commodity,
  • dis advantages,
  • blockings,
  • adverse circumstance,
  • in adequacy,
  • de privations,
  • in-convenience,
  • in conveniences,
  • inutilities,
  • de-privations,
  • flaw,
  • in utilities,
  • dis-commodities,
  • fly in ointment,
  • dis-advantage,
  • in utility,
  • adverse circumstances,
  • in-adequacies,
  • in-utility,
  • in-adequacy,
  • dis-commodity,
  • de-privation,
  • dis commodities,
  • in adequacies,
  • inutility,
  • fly the ointment,
  • in-utilities,
  • inadequacy,
  • minus,
  • in convenience,
  • de privation,
  • minuses,
  • failings,
  • fly ointment,
  • dis advantage,
  • in-conveniences,
  • fly in the ointment,
  • dis-advantages,
  • discommodities.
  •discipline (noun)
  • drillings,
  • self-mastery,
  • selfgovernment,
  • self commands,
  • self-command,
  • domestication,
  • inculcations,
  • self mastery,
  • domestications,
  • self-commands,
  • self-masteries,
  • inculcation,
  • self masteries,
  • selfmasteries,
  • selfmastery,
  • selfcommand,
  • selfcommands,
  • self command,
  • self government.
  •dissuasion (noun)
  • aversion,
  • derailment,
  • prevention,
  • disheartenment,
  • banishment,
  • inhibition,
  • diversion,
  • dissuasion,
  • deflection,
  • admonishment,
  • disinclination.
  •economy (noun)
  • cheapness,
  • moderateness,
  • thrift,
  • parsimony,
  • stinginess,
  • economy,
  • sparingness.
  •elegance (noun)
  • exquisiteness,
  • nobility,
  • poshness,
  • ornateness,
  • gracefulness,
  • good taste,
  • felicity,
  • urbanity,
  • lushness,
  • courtliness,
  • purity.
  •endurance (noun)
  • re solutions,
  • holding ups,
  • withstandings,
  • forebearances,
  • under going,
  • sub mission,
  • undergoings,
  • sufferances,
  • sub missions,
  • starch,
  • with-standings,
  • with-standing,
  • under-going,
  • with standing,
  • with standings,
  • persistence,
  • forebearance,
  • under-goings,
  • sub-mission,
  • submissions,
  • toleration,
  • re-solutions,
  • endurings,
  • sub-missions,
  • continuings,
  • under goings,
  • re-solution.
  •fastening (noun)
  • tether.
  •fetters (noun)
  • Bilboes.
  •fixed price (noun)
  • price control.
  •forbearance (noun)
  • longanimity,
  • living withs,
  • patientness,
  • going easy ons,
  • going easy on,
  • refrainings,
  • living with,
  • longanimities,
  • patientnesses.
  •good taste (noun)
  • tastefulness.
  •government (noun)
  • Presidencies,
  • the feds,
  • political practice,
  • the Fed,
  • statecraft,
  • powers-that-be,
  • pre dominance,
  • washingtons,
  • presidency,
  • pre dominances,
  • powers that bes,
  • pre-dominances,
  • FEDS,
  • powers-that-bes,
  • political practices,
  • powers that be,
  • pre-dominance,
  • statecrafts.
  •grip (noun)
  • handclasp,
  • handshake,
  • handshakes,
  • grapnels,
  • handgrip,
  • handclasps,
  • crushings,
  • handgrips,
  • handhold,
  • grapnel,
  • handholds.
  •handcuff (noun)
  • stickum,
  • stickums,
  • gunks.
  •hang-up (noun)
  • hang up,
  • hangup,
  • obsession.
  •hindrance (noun)
  • impasse,
  • stop,
  • restriction,
  • brake,
  • drag,
  • complication,
  • disadvantage,
  • tangle,
  • obstacle,
  • barrier,
  • opposition,
  • resistance,
  • dam,
  • snarl,
  • entrapment,
  • catch,
  • blockade,
  • jam,
  • plug,
  • frustration,
  • choke,
  • stoppage,
  • obstruction,
  • congestion,
  • entanglement,
  • bottleneck,
  • constipation,
  • burden,
  • mire,
  • bafflement,
  • impediment,
  • impedance,
  • crimp,
  • bung,
  • hindrance.
  •impediment (noun)
  • retardation,
  • retardments,
  • prohibitions,
  • dead weight,
  • Retardment,
  • dead weights.
  •imprisonment (noun)
  • thraldom,
  • thraldoms,
  • immuration,
  • remand,
  • remands,
  • immurations.
  •inhibition (noun)
  • sublimation,
  • selfconsciousness,
  • self-consciousness,
  • self consciousness,
  • selfconsciousnesses,
  • self consciousnesses,
  • sublimations,
  • self-consciousnesses.
  •judgment, propriety (noun)
  • taste.
  •limit (noun)
  • absolutes,
  • farthest point,
  • ultimates,
  • limits,
  • the max,
  • maxes,
  • farthest reach,
  • the most,
  • max,
  • end point,
  • bourne,
  • end points,
  • cutoff point.
  •management, administration (noun)
  • government.
  •measure (noun)
  • Measures,
  • stopgap.
  •moderation (noun)
  • alleviation,
  • composition,
  • pacification,
  • ease,
  • gentleness,
  • calming,
  • softness.
  •obligation (noun)
  • ought,
  • due bill,
  • Accountableness,
  • devoir,
  • oughts,
  • devoirs.
  •patience (noun)
  • Non-resistance,
  • long sufferings,
  • non resistance,
  • even temper,
  • long suffering,
  • nonresistances,
  • non resistances,
  • nonresistance,
  • longsufferings,
  • longsuffering,
  • passivity,
  • passivities,
  • long-sufferings,
  • non-resistances,
  • even tempers,
  • yieldings.
  •preoccupation (noun)
  • hang-up.
  •preventive or institutive action (noun)
  • measure.
  •price control (noun)
  • Valorization,
  • price freeze,
  • credit squeeze,
  • economic pressure,
  • price-fixing,
  • pricefixing,
  • price-fixings,
  • price freezes,
  • pricefixings,
  • price-control,
  • valorizations,
  • price fixings,
  • credit squeezes,
  • economic pressures,
  • price fixing.
  •prohibition (noun)
  • curtailment,
  • injunction,
  • Disallowance,
  • preclusion,
  • disapproval,
  • suppression,
  • rejection,
  • refusal,
  • forbiddance,
  • ban,
  • prohibition.
  •prudence (noun)
  • Canniness,
  • cautiousness,
  • canninesses,
  • cautiousnesses,
  • prudence,
  • fore-thoughts,
  • fore-thought,
  • fore-sight,
  • sophrosyne,
  • fore-sights,
  • sophrosynes,
  • fore thoughts,
  • fore sight,
  • fore sights,
  • fore thought.
  •quietness, composure (noun)
  • calm.
  •repression (noun)
  • smotherings,
  • quellings.
  •reserve (noun)
  • re serves,
  • un responsivenesses,
  • re serve,
  • re-serve,
  • un-responsiveness,
  • re-serves,
  • un-responsivenesses,
  • un responsiveness.
  •responsibility (noun)
  • Obligatoriness,
  • holding bag,
  • answerability,
  • answerabilities,
  • holding the bag,
  • boundness,
  • obligatorinesses,
  • boundnesses.
  •restraining device (noun)
  • bridle.
  •restraining device; check (noun)
  • curb.
  •restraint (noun)
  • decrease,
  • collar,
  • string,
  • self-discipline,
  • moderation,
  • deterrence,
  • abridgment,
  • constriction,
  • bondage,
  • deprivation,
  • shackle,
  • arrest,
  • instruction,
  • determent,
  • interdict,
  • reduction,
  • self-denial,
  • Detainment,
  • check,
  • taboo,
  • pinions,
  • command,
  • weight,
  • order,
  • abstinence,
  • simplicity,
  • rope,
  • self-possession,
  • confinement,
  • manacles.
  •restriction (noun)
  • restrictions,
  • re strictions,
  • re-strictions,
  • grain salt,
  • grain of salt,
  • small difficulty,
  • re striction,
  • re-striction,
  • small difficulties.
  •self-control (noun)
  • selfcontrol,
  • strength of character,
  • self-constraint.
  •self-restraint; abstinence (noun)
  • temperance.
  •serfdom (noun)
  • serfdom.
  •shyness (noun)
  • timorousness,
  • in-security,
  • sheepishness,
  • in securities,
  • sheepishnesses,
  • in security,
  • timorousnesses,
  • in-securities.
  •simplicity (noun)
  • primitiveness,
  • Classicality,
  • obviousness,
  • sophistication artlessness,
  • clean lines,
  • Elementariness,
  • directness,
  • monotony,
  • ingenuousness,
  • straightforwardness,
  • guilelessness,
  • lack of adornment.
  •slavery (noun)
  • serfhood,
  • subjugations,
  • in-denture,
  • chains constraints,
  • Helotry,
  • Servileness,
  • feudalisms,
  • villeinage,
  • menial labor,
  • in-dentures,
  • menial labors,
  • peonages,
  • helotries,
  • subjugation,
  • chains constraint,
  • in dentures,
  • indenture,
  • in denture,
  • servility,
  • serfhoods,
  • bullwork,
  • peonage,
  • bullworks,
  • feudalism.
  •sobriety (noun)
  • denial,
  • teetotalism,
  • soberness,
  • abnegation,
  • dryness,
  • sobriety.
  •stricture (noun)
  • tightness,
  • tightenings,
  • strangulation,
  • chokings,
  • tightnesses,
  • shrinkings,
  • squeezings,
  • strangulations.
  •stumbling block (noun)
  • stone in ones path,
  • stone one's path,
  • stone in one's path,
  • stone ones path,
  • stone in path,
  • stumbling-block,
  • stumbling stones,
  • stumbling stone,
  • stone one path,
  • stone in one path,
  • stone path.
  •taboo (noun)
  • don'ts,
  • dis-approvals,
  • social convention,
  • dis approval,
  • dis-approval,
  • thou shalt nots,
  • social conventions,
  • DONT,
  • religious conventions,
  • religious convention,
  • don't,
  • thou-shalt-not,
  • donts,
  • thou shalt not,
  • dis approvals,
  • thou-shalt-nots.
  •taste (noun)
  • Aestheticism.
  •temperance (noun)
  • austerity,
  • sober-mindedness,
  • frugality,
  • asceticism,
  • conservation,
  • self-deprivation.
  •thralldom (noun)
  • thralldom.
  •tie-up (noun)
  • immobilization.
  •uncommunicativeness (noun)
  • un communicativenesses,
  • un-communicativeness,
  • un communicativeness,
  • un-communicativenesses.
  •understatement (noun)
  • underestimation,
  • over-simplifications,
  • under statement,
  • over simplification,
  • over-simplification,
  • under-estimations,
  • under statements,
  • litotes,
  • under estimations,
  • under estimation,
  • oversimplification,
  • under-statement,
  • oversimplifications,
  • under-estimation,
  • over simplifications,
  • under-statements.
  •virginity (noun)
  • maidenhoods,
  • maidenhood.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • circumscription,
  • duress,
  • ambit,
  • self-effacing,
  • controlled,
  • ungoverned,
  • Self-restrained,
  • classicism,
  • boundary,
  • rein,
  • crackdown,
  • profligacy,
  • bender,
  • roister,
  • imprisonment,
  • straitjacket,
  • parameter,
  • reliance,
  • uninhibited,
  • bound,
  • self-controlled,
  • stint,
  • modesty,
  • interference,
  • compass,
  • Gyve,
  • confines,
  • handcuff,
  • understatement,
  • uncommunicable,
  • retiringness,
  • brannigan,
  • limitation,
  • dissoluteness,
  • self-effacement,
  • inhibited,
  • embargo,
  • uncommunicativeness,
  • Libertinism,
  • unceremoniousness,
  • discretion,
  • demureness,
  • casualness,
  • countermeasures,
  • licentiousness,
  • nonproliferation,
  • shindy,
  • naturalness,
  • caveat,
  • gamut,
  • virginal,
  • tightlipped,
  • unconstrained,
  • snaffle,
  • age limit,
  • cutoff,
  • stranglehold,
  • burke,
  • timidness,
  • fetters,
  • straightjacket,
  • taciturnity,
  • prisoner,
  • coyness,
  • wantonness,
  • backwardness,
  • captor,
  • horizon,
  • close-mouthed.
  •
  • blowout,
  • abandoned,
  • riot,
  • scope,
  • decency,
  • contain,
  • reserved,
  • impure,
  • quench,
  • innocence,
  • chaste,
  • revel,
  • trammel,
  • ceiling.
  •
  • hobble,
  • pure,
  • backward,
  • iron,
  • room,
  • license,
  • simmer,
  • modest.
  •
  • low,
  • virtue,
  • reasonable,
  • celebration,
  • moderate,
  • sit.
  •
  • cool,
  • liberty,
  • blast,
  • line.
  •
  • collect,
  • decent,
  • nice,
  • fast,
  • hold,
  • compose,
  • wild.
  •
  • free,
  • close.
  •
  • keep.
  •aloofness
  • distance.
  •bashfulness
  • shyness.
  •bondage
  • slavery.
  •calmness
  • composure.
  •censoring
  • censorship.
  •constraint
  • repression.
  •discipline
  • regimentation.
  •evasion
  • avoidance.
  •force
  • power.
  •imprisonment
  • incarceration.
  •pressure
  • squeeze,
  • compulsion.
  •self-restraint
  • continence.
  •timidity
  • diffidence.

Paraphrases for Restraint:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    constraint, constraints.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    constraint.

• Forward Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    limitation, limitations.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    curbs, restriction, restrictions, containment.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    self-restraint, restriction, containment, inhibition.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    Assemblies, clusters, ensembles, packages, blocks, CRS, units, cuts, restricting.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    impoundment, prudence, reservation, reluctance, tie-down, duress, self-discipline, stress, stresses, deference, coercive, abstention, compulsion, tightening, subjection, rigour, gating, thoroughness, derogation, detent, immobilizer, retainer, restricting, measurement, reserve, reduction, hesitation, retainage, prudent.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    moderation, Restraining, self-control, withholding, deduction, restrictiveness.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    reticence, circumspection, austerity, moderation, retrenchment, composure, caution, Restraining, discipline, cautiousness, self-control, immobilisation, stringency, strictness, headrest, forbearance, limitation, limitations, withholding, deduction, straitjacket, restrictiveness.

Antonyms for Restraint:

• n.

  • arrest
    encouragement, release, activation, letting go.
  • attribute
    unrestraint.
  • avoidance
    meeting.
  • bar
    aid, help, advantage.
  • barrier
    opening.
  • brake
    accelerator.
  • calm
    anger, restlessness, turbulence, storminess, terror, madness, violence.
  • restraint
    arousal, liberation, agitation, wildness.
  • Other antonyms:
    entrance, road, incontinence, intemperateness, frailty, intemperance, feebleness, indiscipline, gratification, fault, indulgence, weakness, excessiveness, way, foible, unrestrainedness, passage, admittance, thoroughfare, failing, transit, shortcoming, vice, demerit, overindulgence, freedom, Immoderacy, self-indulgence, latitude.

Homophones for Restraint:

• restaurant, restrained, registrant.

Hypernym for Restraint:

• n.

  • act
    collar, bridle, confinement, containment, check, restraint of trade, leash, immobilization, restriction, immobilizing, suppression, immobilisation, curb, curtailment, damper.
  • attribute
    inhibition, temperateness, self-restraint, continence, moderation, temperance.
  • cognition
    floodgate.

Hyponym for Restraint:

• n.

  • act
    control.
  • attribute
    discipline.
  • cognition
    restriction, limitation.