Definition of Restrained

1. Adjective. Cool and formal in manner.

Exact synonyms: Reticent, Unemotional
Similar to: Undemonstrative

2. Adjective. Under restraint.

3. Adjective. Marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes. "Restrained in his response"
Exact synonyms: Moderate
Similar to: Temperate
Derivative terms: Moderateness

4. Adjective. Not showy or obtrusive. "Clothes in quiet good taste"
Exact synonyms: Quiet
Similar to: Unostentatious, Unpretending, Unpretentious

5. Adjective. Prudent. "Guarded optimism"
Exact synonyms: Guarded
Similar to: Cautious

Definition of Restrained

1. Adjective. Held back, limited, kept in check or under control. ¹

2. Verb. (past of restrain) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Restrained

1. restrain [v] - See also: restrain

Lexicographical Neighbors of Restrained

restorator
restorators
restoratory
restore
restored
restored cycle
restorement
restorer
restorers
restores
restoreth
restoring
restos
restrain
restrainable
restrained
restrained beam
restrainedly
restrainer
restrainers
restraining
restraining order
restrainingly
restrainment
restrainments
restrains
restraint
restraint of trade
restraints
restraints of trade

Literary usage of Restrained

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"1 247 j restrained of bis liberty in violation of the Constitution of the United State*) end, "until final judgment therein, and after final judgment of ..."

2. The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the by Thomas Erskine May (1861)
"The arguments restrained. of the petitioners, were repeated and enforced in debate. Whatever the business appointed for consideration, the claims of ..."

3. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, Charles M. Barnes (1884)
"... without the assent and concurrence of her trustee, unless she was specially restrained by the instrument under which she acquired her separate estate. ..."

4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"He despised the trophies of a Gothic victory,8 and was satisfied that the rapacious barbarians of the Danube would be restrained from any future violation ..."

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