THESAURUS
restrained
Attic, Ciceronian, Olympian, aesthetic, aloof, arrested, artistic, aseptic, backward, barred, bashful, beleaguered, beset, besieged, blank, blockaded, bound, bridled, cabined, caged, chaste, chastened, chilled, chilly, choice, classic, clear, cloistered, closed-in, cold, confined, constrained, controlled, cool, cooped, cordoned, cordoned off, corralled, cramped, cribbed, curbed, detached, direct, discreet, distant, easy, elegant, enclosed, excellent, expressionless, fenced, finished, forbidding, frigid, frosty, frugal, graceful, gracile, guarded, hedged, hemmed, hushed, icy, immured, impassive, impersonal, imprisoned, in check, in control, in good taste, in hand, in leading strings, in remission, inaccessible, incarcerated, incommunicable, inhibited, introverted, jailed, leaguered, limited, limpid, lucid, measured, mewed, moderate, modest, natural, neat, noncommittal, of choice, of quality, offish, on leash, paled, pellucid, penned, pent-up, perspicuous, plain, pleasing, polished, pure, quarantined, quelled, quiet, railed, reasonable, refined, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, retarded, reticent, retiring, round, shrinking, shut-in, simple, slowed down, sober, softened, sparing, stable, standoff, standoffish, stinting, straightforward, subdued, suppressed, tasteful, tasty, temperate, tempered, terse, trim, unaffable, unaffected, unapproachable, uncongenial, undemonstrative, under control, under discipline, under restraint, understated, unexcessive, unexpansive, unextreme, ungenial, unlabored, unobtrusive, walled, walled-in, well-chosen, withdrawn
ROGET THESAURUS
restrained
Restraint
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restraint, hindrance, coercion, cohibition, constraint, repression, suppression, discipline, control, confinement, durance, duress, imprisonment, incarceration, coarctation, entombment, mancipation, durance vile, limbo, captivity, blockade, arrest, arrestation, custody, keep, care, charge, ward, restringency, curb, lettres de cachet, limitation, restriction, protection, monopoly, prohibition, prisoner, repressionist,
restrained, constrained, imprisoned, pent up, jammed in, wedged in, under lock and key, under restraint, under hatches, in swaddling clothes, on parole, in custody, doing time, cohibitive, coactive, stiff, restringent, strait-laced, hidebound, barkbound, ice bound, wind bound, weather bound, cabined cribbed confined, in Lob's pound, laid by the heels.