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Definition of Restrained
1. Adjective. Cool and formal in manner.
2. Adjective. Under restraint.
Similar to: Close, Low-key, Low-keyed, Subdued, Unexpansive
Antonyms: Unrestrained
3. Adjective. Marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes. "Restrained in his response"
4. Adjective. Not showy or obtrusive. "Clothes in quiet good taste"
5. Adjective. Prudent. "Guarded optimism"
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
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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