Synonyms for Restraint:

• n.

  •
  • abstemiousness,
  • boundary,
  • caution,
  • confines,
  • coolness,
  • forbearance,
  • formality,
  • laxity,
  • range,
  • reserve,
  • reticence,
  • secretiveness,
  • self-control,
  • self-government,
  • self-restraint,
  • silence,
  • slackness,
  • unnaturalness,
  • withholding.
  •
  • abridgment,
  • assignment,
  • blank,
  • check,
  • coercion,
  • compulsion,
  • controlled,
  • curb,
  • decrease,
  • definition,
  • deprivation,
  • deterrence,
  • discipline,
  • duress,
  • emotionless,
  • force,
  • impassive,
  • instruction,
  • liberty,
  • license,
  • lid,
  • limitation,
  • neutral,
  • order,
  • passive,
  • prescription,
  • reduction,
  • rein,
  • repression,
  • restrained,
  • undemonstrative,
  • unemotional,
  • unresponsive,
  • violence.
  •
  • captivity,
  • capture,
  • chains,
  • dependence,
  • handcuffs,
  • prisoner,
  • reliance,
  • subjection,
  • surrender,
  • fetters.
  •
  • circumscription,
  • limited.
  •
  • cramp,
  • limit,
  • trammel.
  •
  • bit,
  • snaffle.
  •
  • bond,
  • chain,
  • fetter,
  • free,
  • handcuff,
  • hobble,
  • iron,
  • manacle,
  • Gyve.
  •
  • taciturnity,
  • uncommunicativeness.
  •arrest (noun)
  • blockage,
  • cessation,
  • delay,
  • end,
  • halt,
  • interruption,
  • stay,
  • Checking,
  • Restraining.
  •attribute (noun)
  • control.
  •avoidance (noun)
  • dodging,
  • evasion.
  •bar (noun)
  • barricade,
  • block,
  • clog,
  • deterrent,
  • encumbrance,
  • hurdle,
  • snag,
  • stumbling block.
  •barrier (noun)
  • difficulty,
  • drawback,
  • handicap.
  •bond (noun)
  • obligation,
  • tie.
  •brake (noun)
  • damper,
  • discouragement,
  • hamper.
  •bridle (noun)
  • halter,
  • leash,
  • trammels.
  •calm (noun)
  • calmness,
  • dispassion,
  • impassivity,
  • patience,
  • placidity,
  • quiet,
  • quietude,
  • repose,
  • serenity,
  • stoicism,
  • tranquility,
  • tranquillity.
  •compulsion (noun)
  • coercion.
  •control (noun)
  • containment.
  •dissuasion (noun)
  • admonishment,
  • aversion,
  • banishment,
  • deflection,
  • derailment,
  • discouragement,
  • disheartenment,
  • disinclination,
  • dissuasion,
  • diversion,
  • inhibition,
  • intimidation,
  • prevention.
  •economy (noun)
  • cheapness,
  • economy,
  • moderateness,
  • parsimony,
  • stinginess,
  • thrift,
  • sparingness.
  •elegance (noun)
  • gracefulness,
  • purity,
  • urbanity,
  • felicity,
  • good taste.
  •fastening (noun)
  • tether.
  •hindrance (noun)
  • bafflement,
  • barrier,
  • block,
  • blockade,
  • blockage,
  • bottleneck,
  • brake,
  • bung,
  • burden,
  • catch,
  • choke,
  • clog,
  • complication,
  • congestion,
  • constipation,
  • constraint,
  • crimp,
  • dam,
  • damper,
  • delay,
  • deterrent,
  • disadvantage,
  • drag,
  • drawback,
  • encumbrance,
  • entanglement,
  • entrapment,
  • frustration,
  • handicap,
  • hindrance,
  • hurdle,
  • impasse,
  • impedance,
  • impediment,
  • interruption,
  • jam,
  • mire,
  • obstacle,
  • obstruction,
  • opposition,
  • plug,
  • resistance,
  • restriction,
  • snag,
  • snarl,
  • stay,
  • stop,
  • stoppage,
  • tangle.
  •innocence (noun)
  • chastity.
  •limit (noun)
  • restriction,
  • limits.
  •moderation (noun)
  • alleviation,
  • calming,
  • composition,
  • ease,
  • gentleness,
  • pacification,
  • quiet,
  • softness,
  • temperateness,
  • tranquility.
  •obligation (noun)
  • obligation.
  •prohibition (noun)
  • ban,
  • bar,
  • curtailment,
  • disapproval,
  • forbiddance,
  • injunction,
  • preclusion,
  • prohibition,
  • refusal,
  • rejection,
  • suppression,
  • Disallowance.
  •restraint (noun)
  • abridgment,
  • abstemiousness,
  • abstinence,
  • arrest,
  • ban,
  • bar,
  • barrier,
  • bondage,
  • bridle,
  • captivity,
  • caution,
  • chains,
  • chasteness,
  • check,
  • coercion,
  • collar,
  • command,
  • compulsion,
  • confinement,
  • confines,
  • constraint,
  • constriction,
  • control,
  • coolness,
  • cramp,
  • curb,
  • curtailment,
  • decrease,
  • deprivation,
  • detention,
  • determent,
  • deterrence,
  • economy,
  • embargo,
  • forbearance,
  • grip,
  • hindrance,
  • hold,
  • impediment,
  • imprisonment,
  • inhibition,
  • instruction,
  • interdict,
  • leash,
  • limit,
  • limitation,
  • moderation,
  • obstacle,
  • obstruction,
  • order,
  • prevention,
  • prohibition,
  • reduction,
  • rein,
  • repression,
  • reserve,
  • restriction,
  • rope,
  • secretiveness,
  • self-denial,
  • self-discipline,
  • self-government,
  • self-possession,
  • self-restraint,
  • shackle,
  • silence,
  • simplicity,
  • stop,
  • stoppage,
  • straitjacket,
  • stricture,
  • string,
  • suppression,
  • taboo,
  • tether,
  • unnaturalness,
  • weight,
  • withholding,
  • Detainment,
  • fetters,
  • manacles,
  • pinions.
  •self-control (noun)
  • self-discipline.
  •silence (noun)
  • reticence.
  •simplicity (noun)
  • directness,
  • simplicity,
  • straightforwardness.
  •sobriety (noun)
  • abnegation,
  • abstemiousness,
  • abstinence,
  • control,
  • denial,
  • dryness,
  • moderation,
  • soberness,
  • sobriety,
  • teetotalism,
  • temperance.
  •temperance (noun)
  • asceticism,
  • austerity,
  • conservation,
  • frugality,
  • prudence,
  • self-denial,
  • self-deprivation,
  • sober-mindedness.
  •thralldom (noun)
  • thralldom.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • backwardness,
  • bender,
  • bound,
  • boundary,
  • burke,
  • captor,
  • circumscription,
  • classicism,
  • compass,
  • confines,
  • controlled,
  • coyness,
  • crackdown,
  • demureness,
  • discipline,
  • discretion,
  • dissoluteness,
  • duress,
  • embargo,
  • handcuff,
  • imprisonment,
  • interference,
  • limitation,
  • modesty,
  • naturalness,
  • prisoner,
  • rein,
  • reliance,
  • roister,
  • shindy,
  • snaffle,
  • stint,
  • straightjacket,
  • straitjacket,
  • stranglehold,
  • taciturnity,
  • tightlipped,
  • timidness,
  • unceremoniousness,
  • uncommunicativeness,
  • understatement,
  • uninhibited,
  • fetters,
  • Gyve,
  • Libertinism,
  • Self-restrained,
  • nonproliferation,
  • uncommunicable,
  • brannigan,
  • close-mouthed.
  •
  • abstemious,
  • arrest,
  • band,
  • bash,
  • bashfulness,
  • binge,
  • bond,
  • booze,
  • cap,
  • carousal,
  • carouse,
  • chain,
  • check,
  • demure,
  • dependence,
  • diffident,
  • dissolute,
  • endurance,
  • floor,
  • forbear,
  • force,
  • incontinence,
  • incontinent,
  • informality,
  • inhibit,
  • manacle,
  • noncommittal,
  • outspoken,
  • profligate,
  • rakish,
  • responsibility,
  • restrained,
  • reticence,
  • reticent,
  • shindig,
  • stifle,
  • string,
  • subjection,
  • taciturn,
  • timidity,
  • unbridled,
  • unchaste,
  • virginity,
  • yoke,
  • Incommunicable.
  •
  • abandonment,
  • condition,
  • constrain,
  • discreet,
  • fetter,
  • frolic,
  • immoral,
  • jag,
  • poise,
  • purity,
  • restrain,
  • sober,
  • temperate,
  • tie,
  • unclean,
  • uncontrolled,
  • wildness,
  • Elbowroom.
  •
  • blowout,
  • chaste,
  • contain,
  • decency,
  • impure,
  • innocence,
  • quench,
  • riot,
  • scope,
  • trammel.
  •
  • backward,
  • hobble,
  • iron,
  • license,
  • modest,
  • pure,
  • room,
  • surrender.
  •
  • low,
  • moderate,
  • reasonable,
  • virtue.
  •
  • cool,
  • liberty,
  • line,
  • range.
  •
  • capture,
  • decent,
  • fast,
  • hold,
  • limit.
  •
  • free.
  •
  • keep.
  •aloofness
  • distance.
  •bashfulness
  • shyness.
  •bondage
  • slavery.
  •calmness
  • composure,
  • reserve.
  •censoring
  • censorship.
  •constraint
  • repression.
  •discipline
  • regimentation.
  •evasion
  • avoidance.
  •imprisonment
  • captivity,
  • incarceration.
  •patience
  • self-restraint.
  •poise
  • self-control.
  •pressure
  • compulsion,
  • squeeze.
  •refinement
  • elegance.
  •self-assurance
  • self-possession.
  •self-control
  • self-government.
  •self-restraint
  • continence.
  •timidity
  • diffidence.
  •Other relevant words:
  • abandonment,
  • abortion,
  • abridgment,
  • absolutism,
  • abstemious,
  • abstemiousness,
  • abstention,
  • airbrake,
  • aloofness,
  • anticipation,
  • aplomb,
  • apprehension,
  • appropriateness,
  • arrest,
  • arrester,
  • arresting,
  • ascendance,
  • ascendancy,
  • ascendence,
  • ascendency,
  • assignment,
  • assurance,
  • austereness,
  • avoidance,
  • awkward,
  • backward,
  • backwardness,
  • balance,
  • balk,
  • balking,
  • ball and chain,
  • band,
  • banning,
  • bareness,
  • barricade,
  • barring,
  • bash,
  • bashfulness,
  • baulk,
  • bender,
  • bind,
  • binge,
  • bit,
  • blank,
  • blankness,
  • blocking,
  • blowout,
  • bond,
  • booze,
  • bound,
  • boundary,
  • bounds,
  • bracelet,
  • breastwork,
  • brevity,
  • briefness,
  • bulwark,
  • burke,
  • bust,
  • calm,
  • calmness,
  • camisole,
  • cap,
  • captivity,
  • captor,
  • capture,
  • carousal,
  • carouse,
  • caution,
  • celibacy,
  • censoring,
  • censorship,
  • cessation,
  • chain,
  • chains,
  • chaste,
  • chasteness,
  • chastity,
  • check,
  • chilliness,
  • circumscribe,
  • circumscription,
  • clarity,
  • classicism,
  • cleanness,
  • clearness,
  • closure,
  • coaction,
  • coarctation,
  • coercion,
  • coldness,
  • comeliness,
  • command,
  • compactness,
  • compass,
  • composure,
  • compulsion,
  • compulsiveness,
  • concealing,
  • concealment,
  • concentrate,
  • conciseness,
  • concision,
  • condition,
  • confidence,
  • confine,
  • confines,
  • conservatism,
  • constancy,
  • constrain,
  • contain,
  • containment,
  • continence,
  • control condition,
  • controlled,
  • controller,
  • controlling,
  • cool,
  • coolness,
  • cord,
  • correctness,
  • coyness,
  • crack down,
  • crackdown,
  • cramp,
  • crushing,
  • cuff,
  • cuffs,
  • curb,
  • curtness,
  • custody,
  • cutting off,
  • debarment,
  • deceleration,
  • decency,
  • decent,
  • decrease,
  • defence,
  • Defence Mechanism,
  • definition,
  • delimit,
  • delimitation,
  • demarcate,
  • demure,
  • demureness,
  • dependence,
  • deprivation,
  • detachment,
  • detain,
  • deter,
  • determent,
  • determination,
  • deterrence,
  • difficulty,
  • diffidence,
  • diffident,
  • dignity,
  • direction,
  • directness,
  • disability,
  • discipline,
  • discontinuation,
  • discreet,
  • discreetness,
  • discretion,
  • discrimination,
  • disenfranchisement,
  • disfranchisement,
  • disincentive,
  • dispassion,
  • dissolute,
  • dissoluteness,
  • distance,
  • distinction,
  • dodging,
  • doggedness,
  • dominance,
  • domination,
  • drogue,
  • dull,
  • durance,
  • duress,
  • easiness,
  • elegance,
  • elimination,
  • embargo,
  • embarrassment,
  • embolism,
  • embolus,
  • emotionless,
  • end,
  • ending,
  • endurance,
  • enforcement,
  • enjoining,
  • enslavement,
  • enthrallment,
  • equanimity,
  • equilibrium,
  • evasion,
  • evenness,
  • extent,
  • extinction,
  • extinguishing,
  • extreme,
  • fast,
  • fasten,
  • felicitousness,
  • fetter,
  • feudalism,
  • finish,
  • finite,
  • fittingness,
  • fix,
  • fixation,
  • floor,
  • flow,
  • fluency,
  • foiling,
  • forbear,
  • forbearance,
  • forbid,
  • forbidding,
  • force,
  • forestalling,
  • formality,
  • fortitude,
  • free,
  • frigidity,
  • frolic,
  • frostiness,
  • frustrating,
  • gag,
  • gentle,
  • golden mean,
  • government,
  • governor,
  • grace,
  • gracefulness,
  • grip,
  • halt,
  • halter,
  • halting,
  • hamper,
  • handcuff,
  • handcuffs,
  • harness,
  • hedging,
  • hesitancy,
  • hesitation,
  • hiding,
  • hindering,
  • hitch,
  • hobble,
  • hold,
  • hold back,
  • hold up,
  • holdup,
  • humble,
  • husbandry,
  • iciness,
  • ill at ease,
  • immobilisation,
  • immobilization,
  • immoral,
  • impartiality,
  • impassive,
  • impassiveness,
  • impassivity,
  • impeding,
  • imperturbability,
  • imposition,
  • impoundment,
  • imprison,
  • imprisonment,
  • impure,
  • inaccessibility,
  • incarcerate,
  • incarceration,
  • incontinence,
  • incontinent,
  • independence,
  • inevitability,
  • infarct,
  • informality,
  • inhibit,
  • inhibiting,
  • inhibitory,
  • innocence,
  • instruction,
  • interception,
  • interdict,
  • interdiction,
  • interference,
  • internment,
  • introversion,
  • iron,
  • irons,
  • irresistibility,
  • jag,
  • judiciousness,
  • keep,
  • laxity,
  • lead,
  • leniency,
  • lenity,
  • let,
  • liberty,
  • license,
  • lid,
  • limit,
  • limitation,
  • limited,
  • limpidity,
  • line,
  • lockup,
  • longanimity,
  • low,
  • lowly,
  • lucidity,
  • maidenhead,
  • maidenhood,
  • manacle,
  • mastery,
  • measure,
  • mettle,
  • mild,
  • mildness,
  • mitigation,
  • moderate,
  • modest,
  • modesty,
  • monopoly,
  • muffled,
  • muzzle,
  • naturalness,
  • neatness,
  • necessity,
  • negativism,
  • neutral,
  • neutrality,
  • noncommittal,
  • nonviolence,
  • nuisance value,
  • obduracy,
  • obligation,
  • obstructionism,
  • obviation,
  • occlusion,
  • order,
  • outspoken,
  • pacifism,
  • parapet,
  • passive,
  • patience,
  • pellucidity,
  • penning,
  • peonage,
  • perseverance,
  • persistence,
  • perspicuity,
  • philosophy,
  • picket,
  • pillory,
  • placidity,
  • plainness,
  • poise,
  • polish,
  • possession,
  • prescription,
  • presence of mind,
  • price control,
  • prisoner,
  • profligate,
  • prohibit,
  • propriety,
  • proscription,
  • protection,
  • pure,
  • purity,
  • qualification,
  • qualified,
  • quelling,
  • quench,
  • quenching,
  • quietness,
  • quietude,
  • rakish,
  • rampart,
  • range,
  • rationing,
  • reasonable,
  • reduction,
  • refinement,
  • regimentation,
  • regulation,
  • rein,
  • reins,
  • reliance,
  • remoteness,
  • renouncement,
  • renunciation,
  • repose,
  • repressing,
  • repression,
  • reservation,
  • reserve,
  • resignation,
  • resoluteness,
  • resolve,
  • responsibility,
  • restrain,
  • restrained,
  • restraint of trade,
  • restrict,
  • retardation,
  • retention,
  • reticence,
  • reticent,
  • retirement,
  • retrenchment,
  • riot,
  • roister,
  • room,
  • rope,
  • rule,
  • sang-froid,
  • saving,
  • scope,
  • secretiveness,
  • secure,
  • seemliness,
  • seizure,
  • self-abnegation,
  • self-assurance,
  • self-command,
  • self-confidence,
  • self-consciousness,
  • self-control,
  • self-discipline,
  • self-government,
  • self-possession,
  • self-restraint,
  • serenity,
  • serfdom,
  • serfhood,
  • servility,
  • servitude,
  • setback,
  • severity,
  • shindig,
  • shindy,
  • shyness,
  • silence,
  • simple mindedness,
  • simpleness,
  • simplicity,
  • slackness,
  • slavery,
  • slowing,
  • smoothness,
  • smothering,
  • snaffle,
  • sober,
  • soft,
  • special,
  • squeeze,
  • stability,
  • stake,
  • standoffishness,
  • starkness,
  • steadfastness,
  • steadiness,
  • stifle,
  • stifling,
  • stint,
  • stocks,
  • stoicism,
  • stopping,
  • straightforwardness,
  • straightjacket,
  • straitjacket,
  • stranglehold,
  • strength,
  • string,
  • subdued,
  • subduedness,
  • subjection,
  • subjugation,
  • submission,
  • succinctness,
  • sufferance,
  • suppress,
  • surcease,
  • surrender,
  • taboo,
  • tabu,
  • taciturn,
  • taciturnity,
  • taste,
  • tastefulness,
  • temperate,
  • termination,
  • terseness,
  • thoughtfulness,
  • thrall,
  • thralldom,
  • thriftiness,
  • thwarting,
  • tie,
  • tightlipped,
  • timidity,
  • timidness,
  • tolerance,
  • toleration,
  • torture,
  • trammel,
  • trammels,
  • tranquillity,
  • tyranny,
  • unaffectedness,
  • unapproachability,
  • unassuming,
  • unbridled,
  • unceremoniousness,
  • unchaste,
  • unclean,
  • uncomfortable,
  • uncommunicativeness,
  • uncongeniality,
  • uncontrolled,
  • undemonstrative,
  • understatement,
  • unemotional,
  • uninhibited,
  • unnaturalness,
  • unobtrusive,
  • unobtrusiveness,
  • unresponsive,
  • unrestraint,
  • urbanity,
  • vassalage,
  • via media,
  • villeinage,
  • violence,
  • virginity,
  • virtue,
  • weight,
  • wildness,
  • will,
  • willpower,
  • withdrawal,
  • withdrawnness,
  • withholding,
  • yoke,
  • Arrestation,
  • Arrestment,
  • Avoiding,
  • Bilboes,
  • Bilbo,
  • Bond service,
  • Caging,
  • Ceasing,
  • Checking,
  • Classicalism,
  • Clogging,
  • Darbies,
  • Debarring,
  • Delaying,
  • Diminishment,
  • Discontinuing,
  • Elbowroom,
  • Elegancy,
  • Equability,
  • fetters,
  • Feudality,
  • Forcing,
  • Fudging,
  • Gracility,
  • Gyve,
  • Hampering,
  • Helotism,
  • Helotry,
  • Hinderance,
  • Holdback,
  • Impedition,
  • Impersonality,
  • Incommunicable,
  • Intercepting,
  • Interclusion,
  • Interdicting,
  • Libertinism,
  • Mitigating,
  • Muffling,
  • Muting,
  • Obligement,
  • Obstructing,
  • Oppilation,
  • Quashing,
  • Quieting,
  • Refrainment,
  • Restraining,
  • Retarding,
  • Retardment,
  • Reticency,
  • Self-restrained,
  • Silencing,
  • Tabooing,
  • Terminating,
  • Villenage,
  • nonproliferation,
  • curbing,
  • stumbling block,
  • Precluding,
  • Preventing,
  • Prohibiting,
  • Proscribing,
  • Squelching,
  • Strait-jacket,
  • Strait-waistcoat,
  • Subduing,
  • Supportance,
  • Suppressing,
  • hobbles,
  • bonds,
  • guardedness,
  • limits,
  • putting down,
  • thongs,
  • restraints,
  • undemonstrativeness,
  • shackles,
  • manacles,
  • pinions,
  • reservedness,
  • felicity,
  • unflappability,
  • gyves,
  • levelheadedness,
  • uncommunicable,
  • aborting,
  • bracelets,
  • brannigan,
  • close-mouthed,
  • keep from,
  • self-containment,
  • self-mastery,
  • undersupply,
  • happy medium,
  • middle way,
  • Hopples,
  • simmpleness,
  • good taste,
  • cool-headedness,
  • even temper,
  • warding off,
  • staving off,
  • psychological block,
  • closing up,
  • cracking down on,
  • enjoin from,
  • fending off,
  • hang-up,
  • limit to,
  • put-down,
  • sophrosyne,
  • cut-off,
  • leg-iron,
  • foot-dragging,
  • level head,
  • indentureship,
  • forbear from,
  • debt slavery,
  • moderationism,
  • baulking,
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Antonyms for Restraint:

• n.

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

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    abandon, advantage, agitation, aid, allowance, arousal, assistance, beginning, bluntness, candor, continuation, demerit, encouragement, enlargement, excess, excessiveness, expansion, failing, fault, feebleness, foible, forwardness, frailty, frankness, freedom, go, gratification, immoderation, incitement, incontinence, independence, indiscipline, indulgence, intemperance, intemperateness, latitude, liberation, liberty, licence, license, outspokenness, overindulgence, permission, promotion, self-indulgence, shortcoming, start, support, unconstraint, unrestraint, weakness, wildness, Immoderacy, Unreserve, unrestrainedness, uninhibitedness, unreservedness, self-abandonment, disinhibition.