What is another word for subdued?
Pronunciation:
[ sʌbdjˈuːd], [ sʌbdjˈuːd], [ s_ʌ_b_d_j_ˈuː_d]
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Similar words for subdued:
- all (adjective)
- austere (adjective)
- broken (adjective)
- chaste (adjective)
- delicate (adjective)
- depressed (adjective)
- domestic (adjective)
- dull (adjective)
- faint (adjective)
- gentle (adjective)
- grave (adjective)
- inhibited (adjective)
- inobtrusive (adjective)
- insipid (adjective)
- low (adjective)
- low-pitched (adjective)
- manageable (adjective)
- meek (adjective)
- mild (adjective)
- moderate (adjective)
- muffled (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- quiet (adjective)
- quiet, controlled (adjective)
- resigned (adjective)
- restrained (adjective)
- silenced (adjective)
- sober (adjective)
- soft (adjective)
- spiritless (adjective)
- submissive (adjective)
- tame (adjective)
- tasteful (adjective)
- tractable (adjective)
- unobtrusive (adjective)
- dark (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- defeated (verb)
- moderated (verb)
- other relevant words (verb)
- quieted (verb)
- soothed (verb)
- other synonyms
- meek
Synonyms for Subdued:
adj.
• all (adjective) • austere (adjective)- more self disciplined,
- more barebones,
- primitive,
- un-adorned,
- un-relenting,
- most self-disciplined,
- most bare bones,
- selfdenying,
- more straightlaced,
- more self-disciplined,
- more selfdisciplined,
- un relenting,
- unadorned,
- self denying,
- un adorned,
- more bare-bones,
- most barebones,
- un-embellished,
- most self disciplined,
- most straightlaced,
- most bare-bones,
- un embellished,
- severe,
- most selfdisciplined,
- self disciplined,
- more bare bones,
- unembellished.
- dis heartened,
- most tamed,
- more humbled,
- more disheartened,
- dis-heartened,
- more crushed,
- de pressed,
- over powered,
- most humbled,
- de moralized,
- most crushed,
- most browbeaten,
- most disheartened,
- more browbeaten,
- more overpowered,
- most overpowered,
- most vanquished,
- more tamed,
- over-powered,
- de-pressed,
- more vanquished,
- de-moralized.
- prudish,
- in experienced,
- un affected,
- de-cent,
- in-experienced,
- in nocent,
- impotent,
- un defiled,
- most intemerate,
- more intemerate,
- neater,
- most uncontaminated,
- un stained,
- un-affected,
- un-sullied,
- un contaminated,
- re-fined,
- un blemished,
- re fined,
- un-blemished,
- unwed,
- in-nocent,
- un wed,
- more uncontaminated,
- un-wed,
- un sullied,
- de cent,
- un-defiled,
- un-stained,
- most monogamous,
- more monogamous,
- un-contaminated.
- more fine-grained,
- more fine grained,
- fragile,
- most recherche,
- most shattery,
- more shatterable,
- more gossamery,
- most fracturable,
- more fragile,
- more finegrained,
- more fracturable,
- most muted,
- de lightful,
- most fine-grained,
- most gossamery,
- finegrained,
- more muted,
- most shatterable,
- more recherche,
- most fine grained,
- more hairline,
- most hairline,
- graceful,
- more shattery,
- most finegrained,
- fine grained,
- de-lightful.
- more aside,
- un clear,
- more blurred,
- fainter,
- most murmuring,
- more piano,
- most blurred,
- in-audible,
- un clearest,
- most deadened,
- un-clear,
- ill defined,
- more muttering,
- out earshot,
- more stifled,
- most faltering,
- most bleached,
- most muttering,
- more bated,
- most stifled,
- more deadened,
- in audible,
- un-clearest,
- more faltering,
- illdefined,
- faroff,
- most aside,
- most piano,
- more bleached,
- more murmuring,
- most bated,
- soothing,
- re-mote.
- low toned,
- most low-toned,
- peaceful,
- more low toned,
- most lowtoned,
- most low toned,
- gradual,
- more low-toned,
- lowtoned,
- un-troubled,
- un troubled,
- more lowtoned.
- grimfaced,
- unsmiling,
- most grim faced,
- ponderous,
- most long faced,
- more grim faced,
- un-smiling,
- more long-faced,
- more unsmiling,
- grim faced,
- longfaced,
- most grim-faced,
- most unsmiling,
- nononsense,
- un smiling,
- most longfaced,
- long faced,
- more grimfaced,
- most grimfaced,
- most long-faced,
- more long faced,
- more grim-faced,
- more longfaced.
- re pressed,
- re served,
- selfconscious,
- un-responsive,
- un demonstrative,
- self-conscious,
- most repressed,
- with drawn,
- re-pressed,
- un-demonstrative,
- more repressed,
- up tight,
- self conscious,
- with-drawn,
- re-served,
- un responsive,
- up-tight.
- close mouthed,
- more quieted,
- most unspeaking,
- un uttered,
- un expressed,
- whistest,
- most hushful,
- un-communicative,
- could hear pin drop,
- in obtrusive,
- most quieted,
- un-speaking,
- un speaking,
- more unspeaking,
- whister,
- more hushful,
- tight lipped,
- in-obtrusive,
- un-expressed.
- in sipid,
- un-imaginative,
- most nothing,
- most driveling,
- in-sipid,
- most hohum,
- more nothing,
- more characterless,
- most ho hum,
- most nebbish,
- wishywashy,
- in-nocuous,
- more driveling,
- most characterless,
- prosier,
- in nocuous,
- most ho-hum,
- more ho-hum,
- prosy,
- un imaginative,
- more hohum,
- more ho hum,
- wishy-washy,
- prosiest,
- more nebbish,
- wishy washy.
- more longanimous,
- most weak kneed,
- more weak-kneed,
- most weakkneed,
- more pabulum,
- most pabulum,
- un-assuming,
- unpretentious,
- un-resisting,
- un assuming,
- most weak-kneed,
- longsuffering,
- un-pretentious,
- long suffering,
- un pretentious,
- more unresisting,
- weak-kneed,
- most longanimous,
- un resisting,
- more milquetoast,
- weakkneed,
- more zero,
- most zero,
- weak kneed,
- more weak kneed,
- most unresisting,
- unassuming,
- more weakkneed,
- most milquetoast.
- hairline,
- resigned,
- longanimous,
- bowing down,
- recherche,
- whist,
- low,
- MOPY,
- inhibited,
- nonresistant,
- mild,
- unspeaking,
- hohum,
- rolling with punches,
- chaste,
- draggy,
- clammed up,
- self-disciplined,
- strictly business,
- tame,
- cold sober,
- grim-faced,
- broken,
- out of earshot,
- down in dumps,
- unobtrusive,
- bare-bones,
- barebones,
- sober,
- low-toned,
- ho hum,
- flat tire,
- monogamous,
- fracturable,
- Shattery,
- delicate,
- fine-grained,
- gentle,
- ho-hum,
- comformable,
- domestic,
- restrained,
- selfdisciplined,
- far off,
- long-faced,
- buttoned up,
- virginal,
- muffled,
- housebroken,
- faint,
- non-resistant,
- unresisting,
- austere,
- quiet,
- hushful,
- tasteful,
- meek,
- uncontaminated,
- not saying boo,
- uncomplaining,
- giving-in,
- low-profile,
- soft,
- down in the dumps,
- putty in hands,
- could hear a pin drop,
- dull,
- grave,
- hanging loose,
- down in mouth,
- shatterable,
- no nonsense,
- straightlaced,
- cast down,
- Gossamery,
- characterless,
- Intemerate.
- domesticated,
- solemn,
- repentant,
- shaded,
- neutral,
- tempered,
- chastened,
- repressed,
- serious,
- mellow,
- dejected,
- crestfallen,
- out of spirits,
- subtle,
- down in the mouth,
- toned down.
- Unaffable,
- under wraps,
- calm and collected,
- unexcessive,
- laid back,
- on a leash,
- under control,
- on leash,
- unextreme,
- in charge,
- in check,
- corked up,
- unexpansive.
- mopier,
- draggiest,
- draggier,
- un concerned,
- un-enthusiastic,
- in different,
- down mouth,
- in-animate,
- in animate,
- in-different,
- down dumps,
- mopiest,
- down the dumps,
- un-moved,
- unenthusiastic,
- un-concerned,
- un enthusiastic,
- down the mouth.
- more giving-in,
- most nonresistant,
- more obeying,
- yessest,
- most comformable,
- givingin,
- non resistant,
- sub missive,
- more givingin,
- most givingin,
- more complying,
- most obeying,
- more nonresistant,
- sub-missive,
- most giving-in,
- un-complaining,
- most complying,
- most giving in,
- most uncomplaining,
- more giving in,
- un complaining,
- yesser,
- more comformable,
- more uncomplaining.
- more bridled,
- more busted,
- most acclimatized,
- most housebroken,
- most bridled,
- gentle as a lamb,
- more acclimatized,
- un afraid,
- more harnessed,
- most harnessed,
- gentle as lamb,
- most yoked,
- more yoked,
- un-afraid,
- more housebroken,
- most busted,
- over come.
- more low profile,
- most soft-pedaled,
- more soft pedaled,
- un-noticeable,
- more softpedaled,
- unnoticeable,
- selfeffacing,
- un noticeable,
- more low-profile,
- most soft pedaled,
- in-conspicuous,
- most softpedaled,
- more lowprofile,
- un obtrusive,
- most lowprofile,
- un-obtrusive,
- most low profile,
- most low-profile,
- self effacing,
- lowprofile,
- un ostentatious,
- un-ostentatious,
- in conspicuous,
- more soft-pedaled.
n.
• dark (noun)- dark.
- low-key,
- low-keyed,
- vanquished,
- hushed,
- conquered,
- dim,
- muted,
- submissive.
v.
• defeated (verb)- outplayed,
- Predominated,
- quelled,
- defeated,
- Overthrew,
- Outdid,
- Trumped,
- beat,
- outdone,
- overthrown,
- Checkmated,
- Overcame,
- won,
- foiled,
- beaten,
- Whipped,
- mastered,
- Captured,
- Trounced,
- overpowered,
- overcome,
- Subjected,
- Triumphed,
- crushed,
- routed,
- overturned,
- surmounted,
- humbled.
Other synonyms:
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- hangdog,
- shattered,
- homesick,
- off-season,
- disconsolate,
- harassed,
- inconsolable,
- choked up,
- whispery,
- Broken-hearted,
- glum,
- despondent,
- dismayed,
- wistful,
- sleepy,
- matte,
- lugubrious,
- careworn,
- deflated,
- saturnine,
- woebegone,
- Grieved,
- devastated,
- heartbroken,
- off-duty,
- unfulfilled,
- unquiet,
- heartsick,
- off-peak,
- screwed up,
- grief-stricken,
- downhearted,
- underemployed,
- regretful,
- sepulchral,
- Inobtrusive,
- heavy-hearted,
- sorrowful,
- lovelorn,
- grumpy,
- morose.
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•
- availability,
- flattened,
- oppressed,
- sulky,
- somber,
- cut-up,
- melancholy,
- unhappy,
- claustrophobic,
- dimly,
- mournful,
- woeful,
- suicidal,
- insipid,
- woefully,
- dusky,
- regretfully,
- downcast,
- wanly.
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- heavy.
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- down.
How to use "Subdued" in context?
Subdued means to reduce or bring down in intensity or volume. It can also refer to the state of being subdued or dominated. A subdued color is one that is less bright than the other colors around it. A subdued tone is lower in volume than the other tones in a piece of music. Subdued objects are smaller, less imposing, or less noticeable than their surroundings. A subdued mood is one that is quieter than the other moods around it.
Paraphrases for Subdued:
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Verb, past participle
alleviated, attenuated, backed, beaten, bested, bounded, capped, checked, circumscribed, confined, conquered, constrained, contained, controlled, curbed, decreased, defeated, depleted, depressed, diluted, diminished, dimmed, discreet, divided, drained, dropped, eased, embedded, embodied, enclosed, eroded, exhausted, expanded, expended, extinguished, facilitated, fallen, filled, finished, harnessed, included, inflated, knackered, lessened, limited, low, lowered, mastered, measured, minimized, mitigated, mixed, moderated, offset, outlined, overcome, overwhelmed, packaged, powered, reduced, relieved, restrained, restricted, retreated, softened, spent, stored, strained, supervised, suppressed, tamed, tempered, tired, understated, uniformed, vanquished, weakened, winded, won, Afforded, Allayed, Ameliorated, Attacked, Dealt, Declined, Deleted, Echoed, Enshrined, Eradicated, Erased, Fought, Liquidated, Managed, Overseen, Raided, Receded, Reined, Slackened, Slowed, Tendered, Yielded, Curtailed, Subjected, Submitted, Switched, downgraded, countered, buffered, overtired, monitored, laid, scrutinised, sub-mitted.
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