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Definition: Unrestrained |
UnrestrainedAdjective1. Not subject to restraint; "unrestrained laughter". 2. Extravagant or extreme; "the inhumanity of his untempered principles"- M.S.Dworkin. 3. Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure". 4. Richly and brilliantly colorful. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unrestrained" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: UnrestrainedSynonyms: delirious (adj), excited (adj), flamboyant (adj), frantic (adj), mad (adj), resplendent (adj), uncontrolled (adj), untempered (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: restrained (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Facility | Unembarrassed, disburdened, unburdened, disencumbered, unencumbered, disembarrassed; exonerated; unloaded, unobstructed, untrammeled; unrestrained; (free); at ease, light. |
Freedom | In full swing; uncaught, unconstrained, unbuttoned, unconfined, unrestrained, unchecked, unprevented, unhindered, unobstructed, unbound, uncontrolled, untrammeled. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unrestrained |
| English words defined with "unrestrained": audacious ♦ barbaric, barefaced, Beast royal, blaze, bodacious, boisterousness, bold-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, burbling, burbly ♦ cachinnate, counterblast ♦ debauched, debauchee, degenerate, degraded, Disenchained, dissipated, dissolute ♦ easy, ebullient, effusion, effusive, emotional, excessive, extravagant, exuberant ♦ fast, Feast day, Free and easy ♦ gush, gushing, gushy ♦ Hell, high-spirited ♦ insolent ♦ lechery, libertine, licentious, light, loose, lyricism ♦ outburst, overweening ♦ profligate, promiscuous ♦ rampant, revel, revelry, riotous, roisterer, rounder ♦ Saturnalian ♦ unrestrainedly, Unyoked ♦ wanton, wildly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unrestrained": Foreign Words ♦ Ripaille ♦ SLANG. (references) |
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Screenplays | Angel, a monument to unholy carnality, and a cesspool of marital pollution, a shameless, brazen, bulldozing female prepared to humiliate, provoke, and tantalize, savagely seeking the tranquilizer of unrestrained fulfillment (Good Morning... and Goodbye!; writing credit: Jack Moran) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Unrestrained Youth (1925) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | History has proved and will continue to prove that the people's war is the most effective magic weapon in dealing with the American imperialist aggressor and it's lackeys ... The American imperialist charging everywhere like an unrestrained bull, will be. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Savage | When anger rushes, unrestrained, to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles in its way. |
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John Locke | 1690 | To turn him loose to an unrestrained liberty, before he has reason to guide him, is not the allowing him the privilege of his nature to be free; but to thrust him out amongst brutes, and abandon him to a state as wretched, and as much beneath that of a man, as their's. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The term "cancer" refers to a group of diseases in which cells grow and spread unrestrained throughout the body. It is difficult to imagine anyone who has not heard about this disease. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Albania | The Law on Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms provides for freedom of speech and of the press and the media is active and unrestrained; however, there are serious, fundamental problems with the blatant use of the media for political purposes. (references) |
Economic History | Bangladesh | If this trend continues unrestrained, it would have serious consequences for inflation, interest rates and exchange rates, and, therefore, the country's economic growth in future years. (references) |
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| "Unrestrained" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unrestrained" is used about 90 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 90 | 34,744 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "unrestrained": flamboyant resplendent unrestrained ♦ he was very unrestrained ♦ unrestrained by. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
unrestrained | 13 |
magazine unrestrained | 5 |
asics shoes unrestrained wrestling | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "unrestrained"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i shfrenuar (effusive, orgiastic, overpowering, rabid, rampant, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrolled), i papërmbajtur (demonstrative, ebullient, effuse, effusive, fiery, gushing, harum scarum, hot-blooded, hot-headed, Hotspur, immoderate, incontinent, intemperate, jazz, jazzy, lawless, out of hand, rampageous, rampant, unchecked, unconscionable, uncontained, uncontrollable, unreserved, wanton, wild), i papërmbajtshëm (irrepressible, irresistible, ungovernable, uninhibited). (various references) | |
Arabic | مفرط (exaggerated, excess, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, frightful, immoderate, intemperate, intolerable, overabundant, overmuch, overweening, super, superabundant, superfluous, superlative, too much, unconscionable, undue, unqualified, unreasonable), متهور (audacious, blind, blindfold, blindfolded, brash, careless, daredevil, daredevilry, desperate, devil may care, excessive, extravagant, foolhardy, harum scarum, hasty, headlong, heady, heedless, hot-headed, immaterial, impetuous, impish, imprudent, impulsive, inconsiderate, light-headed, madcap, precipitate, precipitous, rash, reckless, slapdash, temerarious, too hasty, unwary), متطرف (drastic, excessive, extravagant, extreme, extremist, immoderate, inordinate, intemperate, radical), مستهتر (careless, gay, heedless, inconsiderate, irresponsible, licentious, light minded, loiterer, pleasure-seeking, reckless, thoughtless, uninhibited, wanton), مطلق (absolute, categorical, complete, downright, free, full, infinite, liberator, outright, perfect, plenary, stark, ultimate, unbounded, unconditional, uncontrolled, unlimited, unqualified, unrestricted, utter), غير مقيد (unbound, unbounded), غير محدود (bottomless, boundless, indefinite, infinite, plenary, unbounded, unlimited), عفوي (casual, glib, spontaneous, unprompted). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | несдържан (bacchanal, incontinent, intemperate), невъзпрян (undeterred), невъздържан (incontinent, intemperate, licentious, red blooded, shrill, ungovernable, unmeasured, unreserved, unsubdued), необуздан (bacchanal, hot, intractable, lawless, mad, obstreperous, orgiastic, phrenetic, rambunctious, rampageous, rampant, riotous, tearaway, unbounded, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruled, vagrant, wanton, wild, zizzi). (various references) | |
Chinese | 猖披 (wild), 漫 (free, inundate), 浪 (breaker, dissipated, wave), 限制 (unrestricted). (various references) | |
Czech | volný (clear, comfortable, for hire, free, lax, liberal, loose, open, slack, spare, svelte, unattached, unoccupied, vacant), nevázaný (boisterous, exuberant, hoity toity, licentious, ribald, rollicking, unbound, uninhibited), nespoutaný (fetterless, go-as-you-please, unbounded, unbridled, uninhibited), neomezený (boundless, endless, limitless, unbounded, unlimited, unqualified, unrestricted, untrammelled), bezuzdný (reinless, unbridled, wild), živelný (elemental). (various references) | |
Dutch | teugelloos (lawless, licentious, riotous, unchecked), ongelimiteerd (absolute), ongebreideld (lawless, licentious, riotous, unchecked), onbeperkt (absolute), bandeloos (lawless, licentious, riotous, unchecked). (various references) | |
Farsi | مطلق (Absolute, Abstract, Arbitrary, Autocratic, Downright, Free, Implicit, Positive, Sheer, Slick, Stark, Total, Unconditional, Utter), نامحدود (Indefinite, Indeterminable, Infinite, Unlimited, Unqualified, Wide), ازاد (Exempt, Free, Gratis, Immune, Loose, Open, Patent, Unattached), بی لجام , بی بندوبار (Loose, Profligate). (various references) | |
Finnish | hurja (frantic, furious, violent, wild), hillitön (ummanageable, unchecked, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly, wild), ehkäisemätön (unchecked). (various references) | |
French | non refréné, non continu, incontinent (ungoverned, unmastered), effréné (unbridled, unruly), débridé (unbridled, uncurbed, unhalted). (various references) | |
German | zügellos (debauched, dissipated, dissolute, incontinent, intemperate, lawless, licentious, riotous, unbridled, unchecked, uncurbed, undisciplined, ungovernable, unhalted), unbeherrscht (hot-headed, intemperate, short tempered, short-temperedly, uncontrolled, ungovernable, ungoverned, unmastered), unbändig (boisterous, enormous, irrepressible, lawless, licentious, riotous, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrollable, ungovernable, ungovernably, unruly, wild). (various references) | |
Greek | ελεύθεροσ (free, quit), ακράτητοσ (furious, impetuous, irrepressible, rampant, resistless, uncontrolled, undeterred), ακάθεκτος (impetuous), ασυγκράτητοσ (impetuous). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לא מרוסן (unbridled), פרוץ (broken through, cracked, crushed, licentious, reckless). (various references) | |
Hungarian | korlátozatlan (unobstructed, unrestricted), féktelen (boisterous, impetuous, lawless, licentious, madcap, obstreperous, rambunctious, rampageous, robustic, towering, turbulent, unbounded, unbridled, unruled, wanton). (various references) | |
Italian | sfrenato (dissolute, unbridled, uncontrolled, unruly, wanton, wild), sbrogliato (uncurbed, unhalted), licenzioso (debauched, dissipated, dissolute, frolicsome, indecent, lawless, licentious, loose, obscene, profligate, raffish, ribald, riotous, rollicking, unchecked, undisciplined, wanton, wild), dissoluto (debauched, dissolute, goatish, lawless, licentious, profligate, rakish, riotous, roue, unchecked). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | estrainedunray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | não reprimido (unchecked), não refreado, livre (bohemian, clear, disengaged, exempt, fetterless, floating, free, immune, independent, leisured, loose, masterless, off, quit, spare, spontaneous, unappropriated, unattached, unconstrained, unencumbered, unimpeded, unobstructed, unoccupied, untied, untrammelled). (various references) | |
Romanian | nestãpânit (abandoned, beyond control, boisterous, incontinent, insatiable, intemperate, irrepressible, unbroken, wayward), desfrânat (abandoned, bad, debauched, dissipated, dissolute, incontinent, lewd, lickerish, lustful, man of pleasure, meretricious, profligate, raffish, rake, rakish, reinless, reprobate, reveller, ribald, rioter, riotous, rip, ruttish, salacious, unchaste, unruly, wanton, whoremaster). (various references) | |
Russian | несдержанный (demonstrative, expansive, incontinent, indiscreet, inordinate, intemperate, short tempered, short-tempered, unkept, unreserved). (various references) | |
Scottish | saor (a carpenter, carpenter, cheap, cheapen, deliver, easily, frank, free, gratuitous, redeem, rescue, save, set at liberty, wright). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neumeren (immoderate, intemperate), neobuzdan (harum scarum, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, uncurbed, ungovernable, unmeasured, unyoked, wild), nekontrolisan (uncontrollable, uncontrolled). (various references) | |
Spanish | libertino (debauchee, lawless, libertine, licentious, profligate, promiscuous, rake, rakish, riotous, roue, tangle, unchecked, uncurbed, unhalted), desenfrenado (frantic, lawless, licentious, rampant, riotous, self indulgent, unbridled, unchecked, wanton, wild). (various references) | |
Swedish | otyglad (lawless, unbridled, uncontrolled). (various references) | |
Turkish | serbest (at large, at liberty, cavalier, disengaged, easy, exempt, fetterless, footloose, free, freehearted, freewheeling, go-as-you-please, in the clear, independent, latitudinarian, leisure, liberal, loose, open, permissive, quit, unattached, unbound, unchecked, unconfined, unconstrained, unencumbered, unengaged, unfettered, unhampered, unrestricted, unshackled, untrammelled), kontrolsüz (unbounded, unchecked, uncontrolled), frenlenmemiş. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | нестриманий (abandoned, bestial, expansive, immoderate, incontinent, inordinate, outgiving, unchecked, unreserved, unsuppressed), невимушений (cavalier, chatty, easy, informal, laidback, natural, relaxed, there, unbuttoned, unstudied), необмежений (absolute, illimitable, indefinite, open, open ended, plenipotential, plenipotentiary, unbounded, unlimited). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | không bị nén lại, không bị kiềm chế (unattached, uncontrolled, unshackled), không bị dằn lại, được th lỏng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | effrenus, impunitus, inpunitus, licens, licentiosus, soluta, soluti, solutis, solutum, solutus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "unrestrained": unrestrainedly, unrestrainedness, unrestrainednesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unrestrained" (pronounced u'nrēstrā"nd) |
| 8 | -r ē s t r ā" n d | restrained. |
| 6 | -s t r ā" n d | constrained, strained, unconstrained. |
| 5 | -t r ā" n d | retrained, trained, untrained. |
| 4 | -r ā" n d | brained, craned, drained, grained, ingrained, rained, refrained, reigned, reined, sprained. |
| 3 | -ā" n d | abstained, arraigned, ascertained, attained, campaigned, caned, chained, complained, contained, detained, disdained, entertained, explained, feigned, gained, maintained, maned, obtained, ordained, pained, pertained, planed, preordained, regained, remained, retained, stained, sustained, unexplained, unstained, waned. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-n-n-r-r-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: entrainers, indentures, irredentas, restrained, underrates, unreadiest, unsteadier, unstrained. | |
-3 letters: denatures, detainers, dreariest, entrained, entrainer, estuarine, indenters, indenture, indurates, instarred, intenders, intruders, inundates, irredenta, reinsured, renatured, renatures, resinated, retainers, retrained, reuniters, saturnine, sauntered, saunterer, tanneries, ternaries, treasured, turneries, undereats, underrate, unreadier, unstained, untrained. | |
-4 letters: adenines, andesite, aneurins, anserine, arenites, arrested, arsenide, arsenite, arteries, audients. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-n-n-r-r-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: unrestrainedly. | |
+3 letters: rudimentariness. | |
+4 letters: unrestrainedness. | |
+5 letters: rudimentarinesses. | |
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