What is another word for restraint?
860 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ɹɪstɹˈe͡ɪnt], [ ɹɪstɹˈeɪnt], [ ɹ_ɪ_s_t_ɹ_ˈeɪ_n_t]Table of Contents
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
Synonyms for Restraint:
n.
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- coolness,
- laxity,
- range,
- self-restraint,
- formality,
- self-government,
- withholding,
- reserve,
- forbearance,
- self-control,
- unnaturalness,
- slackness,
- reticence,
- abstemiousness,
- caution,
- silence,
- secretiveness.
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- captivity,
- chains,
- subjection,
- dependence,
- handcuffs,
- capture,
- surrender.
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- limited.
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- bit.
- halt,
- stalling,
- end,
- Staying,
- Checking,
- stay,
- blockage,
- delay,
- cessation,
- interruption,
- suspension,
- Restraining.
- 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.
- clog,
- hurdle,
- snag,
- deterrent,
- fence,
- stumbling block,
- traverse,
- barricade,
- railing,
- rail,
- block,
- blank wall,
- pale,
- wall,
- encumbrance,
- road block.
- bar.
- attachment,
- friendship,
- hookup,
- obligation,
- connective,
- network,
- tie-in,
- interrelationship,
- connection,
- marriage,
- union,
- tie,
- liaison,
- affiliation,
- affinity,
- relationship,
- link.
- dispassion,
- hush,
- placidity,
- stillness,
- patience,
- placidness,
- doldrums,
- peace of mind,
- lull,
- stoicism,
- repose,
- calmness,
- Imperturbation,
- peacefulness,
- tranquillity,
- impassivity,
- serenity,
- peace,
- quiet,
- tranquility,
- rest,
- quietude.
- durance,
- vassalage,
- vassalages,
- internments,
- impoundment,
- subjections,
- impoundments,
- durances,
- internment,
- committal,
- committals.
- sinlessness,
- monogamy,
- up rightnesses,
- up-rightness,
- chastenesses,
- immaculacy,
- spotlessnesses,
- immaculacies,
- sinlessnesses,
- monogamies,
- virtuousness,
- up rightness,
- up-rightnesses,
- spotlessness.
- grip.
- violence,
- strong-arm tactics,
- strongarm tactics,
- browbeatings,
- bullyings,
- strongarm tactic,
- strong arm tactic,
- menacings,
- threatenings,
- intimidation,
- strong-arm tactic.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- aversion,
- derailment,
- prevention,
- disheartenment,
- banishment,
- inhibition,
- diversion,
- dissuasion,
- deflection,
- admonishment,
- disinclination.
- exquisiteness,
- nobility,
- poshness,
- ornateness,
- gracefulness,
- good taste,
- felicity,
- urbanity,
- lushness,
- courtliness,
- purity.
- 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.
- longanimity,
- living withs,
- patientness,
- going easy ons,
- going easy on,
- refrainings,
- living with,
- longanimities,
- patientnesses.
- 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.
- handclasp,
- handshake,
- handshakes,
- grapnels,
- handgrip,
- handclasps,
- crushings,
- handgrips,
- handhold,
- grapnel,
- handholds.
- 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.
- sublimation,
- selfconsciousness,
- self-consciousness,
- self consciousness,
- selfconsciousnesses,
- self consciousnesses,
- sublimations,
- self-consciousnesses.
- absolutes,
- farthest point,
- ultimates,
- limits,
- the max,
- maxes,
- farthest reach,
- the most,
- max,
- end point,
- bourne,
- end points,
- cutoff point.
- 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.
- 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.
- curtailment,
- injunction,
- Disallowance,
- preclusion,
- disapproval,
- suppression,
- rejection,
- refusal,
- forbiddance,
- ban,
- prohibition.
- Canniness,
- cautiousness,
- canninesses,
- cautiousnesses,
- prudence,
- fore-thoughts,
- fore-thought,
- fore-sight,
- sophrosyne,
- fore-sights,
- sophrosynes,
- fore thoughts,
- fore sight,
- fore sights,
- fore thought.
- calm.
- re serves,
- un responsivenesses,
- re serve,
- re-serve,
- un-responsiveness,
- re-serves,
- un-responsivenesses,
- un responsiveness.
- Obligatoriness,
- holding bag,
- answerability,
- answerabilities,
- holding the bag,
- boundness,
- obligatorinesses,
- boundnesses.
- curb.
- 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.
- restrictions,
- re strictions,
- re-strictions,
- grain salt,
- grain of salt,
- small difficulty,
- re striction,
- re-striction,
- small difficulties.
- timorousness,
- in-security,
- sheepishness,
- in securities,
- sheepishnesses,
- in security,
- timorousnesses,
- in-securities.
- primitiveness,
- Classicality,
- obviousness,
- sophistication artlessness,
- clean lines,
- Elementariness,
- directness,
- monotony,
- ingenuousness,
- straightforwardness,
- guilelessness,
- lack of adornment.
- 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.
- tightness,
- tightenings,
- strangulation,
- chokings,
- tightnesses,
- shrinkings,
- squeezings,
- strangulations.
- 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.
- 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.
Other synonyms:
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- 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.
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- blowout,
- abandoned,
- riot,
- scope,
- decency,
- contain,
- reserved,
- impure,
- quench,
- innocence,
- chaste,
- revel,
- trammel,
- ceiling.
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- low,
- virtue,
- reasonable,
- celebration,
- moderate,
- sit.
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- keep.
Paraphrases for Restraint:
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Equivalence
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Proper noun, singular
constraint, constraints.
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Noun, singular or mass
constraint.
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Proper noun, singular
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Forward Entailment
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Proper noun, singular
limitation, limitations.
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Proper noun, singular
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Reverse Entailment
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Proper noun, singular
curbs, restriction, restrictions, containment.
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Noun, singular or mass
self-restraint, restriction, containment, inhibition.
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Proper noun, singular
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Independent
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Proper noun, singular
Assemblies, clusters, ensembles, packages, blocks, CRS, units, cuts, restricting.
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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.
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Proper noun, singular
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Other Related
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Proper noun, singular
moderation, Restraining, self-control, withholding, deduction, restrictiveness.
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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.
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Proper noun, singular
Antonyms for Restraint:
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n.
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arrest
encouragement, release, activation, letting go.
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attribute
unrestraint.
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avoidance
meeting.
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barrier
opening.
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brake
accelerator.
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calm
anger, restlessness, turbulence, storminess, terror, madness, violence.
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restraint
arousal, liberation, agitation, wildness.
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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.
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arrest
Homophones for Restraint:
Hypernym for Restraint:
n.
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act
collar, bridle, confinement, containment, check, restraint of trade, leash, immobilization, restriction, immobilizing, suppression, immobilisation, curb, curtailment, damper.
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attribute
inhibition, temperateness, self-restraint, continence, moderation, temperance.
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cognition
floodgate.
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act
Hyponym for Restraint:
n.
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act
control.
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attribute
discipline.
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cognition
restriction, limitation.
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act