restrained

Academic Word List, sublist 9.

About 3.77 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

   He greeted her for the first time in three years with a restrained embrace.

2. adjective Proscribed, restricted.
3. verb simple past and past participle of restrain

   He was restrained by the straight jacket.

Similar words

bated curbed close subdued guarded contained temperate moderate discreet confined

Often followed by

by from and in the him himself to his

Word family

restrain restrainedly restraining restrains restraint restraints