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Synonyms:
- austerity, economy, abstinence, thrift, entanglement, composition, curb, willpower, control condition, self-mastery, captivity, bulwark, restriction, simpleness, disinclination, snarl, prisoner, obstruction, uncommunicativeness, rampart, prescription, tranquility, aversion, barricade, dominance, frustration, brake, circumscription, command, disallowance, ease, crimp, unemotional, taciturnity, derailment, handcuff, self-discipline, cramp, blank, encumbrance, control, denial, impasse, mastery, gentleness, repression, abnegation, sober-mindedness, dam, entrapment, definition, self-deprivation, frugality, subjection, disheartenment, tangle, neutral, parsimony, self-command, controlled, ascendancy, simplicity, simple mindedness, impedance, forbiddance, duress, constriction, constipation, ascendence, prohibition, deprivation, impassive, self-denial, preclusion, surrender, parapet, limitation, force, leash, self-restraint, jam, diversion, stop, unresponsive, laxity, ban, caution, shackle, fetter, soberness, coolness, pacification, prevention, suppression, delay, chasteness, condition, conservation, bond, opposition, controller, admonishment, unnaturalness, hindrance, reserve, range, decrease, bridle, barrier, withholding, curtailment, drawback, obstacle, passive, disadvantage, stricture, rein, reduction, emotionless, reliance, stay, inhibition, disapproval, boundary, forbearance, softness, easiness, discretion, damper, capture, banishment, intimidation, confines, detainment, snaffle, deflection, mire, coercion, trammel, refrainment, prudence, limit, rejection, breastwork, hobble, temperance, block, dependence, stoppage, calming, compulsion, abstemiousness, chains, dissuasion, assignment, self-government, handcuffs, formality, self-control, tether, clog, limited, impediment, collar, bit, manacle, discipline, gyve, alleviation, resistance, order, violence, detention, quiet, free, self-containment, cheapness, confinement, simmpleness, sobriety, fetters, deterrent, choke, instruction, plug, injunction, slackness, moderateness, interruption, catch, complication, bottleneck, reticence, snag, restrained, asceticism, license, ascendency, constraint, silence, blockade, undemonstrative, drag, moderation, iron, bondage, abridgment, deterrence, continence, blockage, bafflement, liberty, bar, dryness, ascendance, refusal, sparingness, teetotalism, self-possession, stinginess, handicap, check, burden, lid, chain, hurdle, discouragement, secretiveness, temperateness, bung, congestion
Examples:
- - Also it is clear that I cannot put any restraint upon the liberty of the subject and order you to remain with me. - "Mr. Meeson's Will", H. Rider Haggard
- - No, my love; I should be a restraint upon you. - "Shirley", Charlotte Brontë
- - The mother hid her grief and tears, and smiled, But David wept without restraint. - "On Strike Till 3", Grant Balfour
Antonyms:
- failing, unrestrainedness, unconstraint, shortcoming, frankness, intemperateness, entrance, intemperance, uninhibitedness, unreservedness, fault, foible, unreserve, excessiveness, overindulgence, way, indiscipline, transit, opening, gratification, vice, latitude, demerit, freedom, candor, self-indulgence, indulgence, unrestraint, weakness, admittance, thoroughfare, frailty, bluntness, road, incontinence, immoderacy, feebleness, passage
