Usually means: Limited or controlled in extent.
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  1. restrained: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. restrained: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. restrained: Collins English Dictionary
  4. restrained: Vocabulary.com
  5. Restrained, restrained: Wordnik
  6. restrained: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. restrained: Wiktionary
  8. restrained: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. restrained: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Restrained, restrained: Dictionary.com
  11. restrained: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Restrained: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. restrained: Rhymezone
  14. restrained: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. restrained: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. restrained: Free Dictionary
  17. restrained: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. restrained: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. restrained: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. restrained: Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  Held back, limited, kept in check or under control.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Proscribed, restricted.

Similar:
curbed, subdued, bated, close, guarded, moderate, temperate, cautious, discreet, contained, more...

Opposite:
unrestrained, uncontrolled, unlimited, unconfined

Types:
bound, tied, leashed, chained, lassoed, cuffed, manacled, fettered, more...

Phrases:
restrained beam, self restrained, not restrained, restrained and modest, restrained with manacles, more...

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Similar:
curbed, subdued, bated, close, guarded, moderate, temperate, cautious, discreet, contained, more...

Opposite:
unrestrained, uncontrolled, unlimited, unconfined

Types:
bound, tied, leashed, chained, lassoed, cuffed, manacled, fettered, more...

Phrases:
restrained beam, self restrained, not restrained, restrained and modest, restrained with manacles, restrained anger, emotionally restrained, barely restrained, opposite of restrained, mild and restrained, more...

Colors:
    taupe,     beige,     slate gray,     olive,     charcoal, more...



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