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Pronunciation:

[ ɹɪstɹˈe͡ɪnt], [ ɹɪstɹˈe‍ɪnt], [ ɹ_ɪ_s_t_ɹ_ˈeɪ_n_t]

Related words: physical restraint, physical restraints, restraints, restraint law, restraints law

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Similar words for restraint:

• abstemiousness (noun)
• accountability, blame (noun)
• act (noun)
• arrest (noun)
• attribute (noun)
• avoidance (noun)
• bar (noun)
• barrier (noun)
• barrier; blockage (noun)
• bearing hardship; staying power (noun)
• bond (noun)
• brake (noun)
• bridle (noun)
• burden (noun)
• calm (noun)
• captivity (noun)
• celibacy, chastity (noun)
• celibacy, purity (noun)
• chasteness (noun)
• chastity (noun)
• circumscription (noun)
• clasp, embrace (noun)
• coercion (noun)
• command (noun)
• compulsion (noun)
• confinement, imprisonment (noun)
• constraint (noun)
• constriction (noun)
• control (noun)
• cultivated beauty, taste (noun)
• curb (noun)
• detention (noun)
• difficulty, trouble (noun)
• disadvantage(s) (noun)
• discipline (noun)
• dissuasion (noun)
• economy (noun)
• elegance (noun)
• endurance (noun)
• fastening (noun)
• fetters (noun)
• fixed price (noun)
• forbearance (noun)
• good taste (noun)
• government (noun)
• grip (noun)
• handcuff (noun)
• hang-up (noun)
• hindrance (noun)
• impediment (noun)
• imprisonment (noun)
• inhibition (noun)
• judgment, propriety (noun)
• limit (noun)
• management, administration (noun)
• measure (noun)
• moderation (noun)
• obligation (noun)
• patience (noun)
• preoccupation (noun)
• preventive or institutive action (noun)
• price control (noun)
• prohibition (noun)
• prudence (noun)
• quietness, composure (noun)
• repression (noun)
• reserve (noun)
• responsibility (noun)
• restraining device (noun)
• restraining device; check (noun)
• restraint (noun)
• restriction (noun)
• self-control (noun)
• self-restraint; abstinence (noun)
• serfdom (noun)
• shyness (noun)
• simplicity (noun)
• slavery (noun)
• sobriety (noun)
• stricture (noun)
• stumbling block (noun)
• taboo (noun)
• taste (noun)
• temperance (noun)
• thralldom (noun)
• tie-up (noun)
• uncommunicativeness (noun)
• understatement (noun)
• virginity (noun)
• other synonyms
• aloofness
• bashfulness
• bondage
• calmness
• censoring
• constraint
• discipline
• evasion
• force
• imprisonment
• other relevant words
• pressure
• self-restraint
• timidity

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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.
  • Other relevant words:
  • quantity,
  • discipline.
  • 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
    containment, restriction, restrictions, curbs.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    containment, inhibition, restriction, self-restraint.

• Independent

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

• Other Related

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

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.