unrestrained

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪnd

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Adjective

unrestrained (comparative more unrestrained, superlative most unrestrained)

1. immoderate; not restrained or held in check; inordinate (literary).

   Synonyms: lavish, wanton; see also Thesaurus:excessive

   Antonyms: moderate, restrained

   The party was a scene of unrestrained debauchery.

2. spontaneous, natural and informal; unconstrained

   Synonyms: genuine, heartfelt, sincere

   Antonyms: forced, insincere, restrained, rigid, stiff

   Their meeting was one of unrestrained joy.

3. Not subject to physical restraint.

   Synonyms: unbound, unconstrained

   Hyponyms: uncaged, unchained

   Antonyms: bound, constrained, restrained

   • 2009, Russell Colling, Tony W. York, Hospital and Healthcare Security, page 346:

     Managing unrestrained prisoners alone in any environment is inherently dangerous and should not be tolerated.

   • 2021 December 29, Dominique Louis, “Causal analysis: crashworthiness at Sandilands”, in RAIL, number 947, page 32:

     In an accident there will often be injuries, as people are unrestrained. But in the case of Sandilands, I don't think anyone would have foreseen the seven deaths and 62 injuries that occurred when the tram overturned [...].

Derived terms

• unrestrainedly
• unrestrainedness

Related terms

• restrain
• restrained

Translations

not held in check

• Bulgarian: невъздържан (bg) (nevǎzdǎržan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無限制的／无限制的 (zh) (wúxiànzhì de)

• Finnish: hillitön (fi)
• French: non restreint
• German: unbeherrscht
• Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌰𐍃𐍃 (ungatass)
• Greek: ασυγκράτητος (el) (asygkrátitos)
• Irish: gan chosc
• Italian: scatenato (it), senza freno, senza moderazione
• Japanese: 抑制されていない (ja) (よくせいされていない, yokusei sarete inai)
• Latin: licens
• Maori: tīwēwē, kāore i ārikarika
• Navajo: tʼáá bizááká
• Russian: необу́зданный (ru) (neobúzdannyj) (usually negative connotation), безу́держный (ru) (bezúderžnyj), несде́ржанный (ru) (nesdéržannyj)
• Spanish: descontrolado (es), sin tasa

unconstrained

• Bulgarian: невъздържан (bg) (nevǎzdǎržan)
• Finnish: hillitön (fi)
• German: ungehemmt (de), hemmungslos (de)
• Hindi: आज़ाद (hi) (āzād)
• Japanese: 自然 (ja) (しぜん, shizen)
• Latin: prōruptus
• Maori: māhorahora
• Russian: безу́держный (ru) (bezúderžnyj), несде́ржанный (ru) (nesdéržannyj)
• Spanish: descontrolado (es), desenfrenado (es)

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} ongebreideld (nl), ^{(please verify)} ongebreidelde (nl)
• French: ^{(please verify)} non restreint
• German: ^{(please verify)} ungehemmt (de)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 무제한 (ko) (mujehan)
• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 無限制的／无限制的, ^{(please verify)} 无限制的
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} libre (es), ^{(please verify)} desmedido (es)

Verb

unrestrained

1. simple past and past participle of unrestrain

See also

• rampant
• unbridled