Antonyms for restraint
rɪˈstreɪntre·straint

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1. restraint

   A bar is something that is or may be firmly fixed, ordinarily with intent to prevent entrance or egress; as, the bars of a prison cell; the bars of a wood-lot. A barrier obstructs, but is not necessarily impassable. Barrier is used of objects more extensive than those to which bar is ordinarily applied. A mountain range may be a barrier to exploration; but a mass of sand across the entrance to a harbor is called a bar. Discovered falsehood is a bar to confidence. Barricade has become practically a technical name for an improvised street fortification, and, unless in some way modified, is usually so understood. A parapet is a low or breast-high wall, as about the edge of a roof, terrace, etc., especially, in military use, such a wall for the protection of troops; a rampart is the embankment surrounding a fort, on which the parapet is raised; the word rampart is often used as including the parapet. Bulwark is a general word for any defensive wall or rampart; its only technical use at present is in nautical language, where it signifies the raised side of a ship above the upper deck, topped by the rail. Compare BOUNDARY; IMPEDIMENT.

   Antonyms:
   admittance, entrance, opening, passage, road, thoroughfare, transit, way

   Synonyms:
   bar, barricade, barrier, breastwork, bulwark, hindrance, obstacle, obstruction, parapet, prohibition, rampart, restriction

   Preposition:
   A barrier to progress, against invasion; a barrier between nations.

Matched Categories

1. • Control
   • Device
   • Plainness
   • Restriction

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1. restraintnoun

   the act of controlling by restraining someone or something

   "the unlawful restraint of trade"

   Antonyms:
   unrestraint

   Synonyms:
   control, constraint, simplicity, chasteness, simpleness

2. restraint, controlnoun

   discipline in personal and social activities

   "he was a model of polite restraint"; "she never lost control of herself"

   Antonyms:
   unrestraint

   Synonyms:
   dominance, control condition, controller, mastery, ascendancy, command, control, ascendency, ascendance, simplicity, chasteness, constraint, ascendence, simpleness

3. constraint, restraintnoun

   the state of being physically constrained

   "dogs should be kept under restraint"

   Antonyms:
   unrestraint

   Synonyms:
   control, constraint, simplicity, chasteness, simpleness

4. restraintnoun

   a rule or condition that limits freedom

   "legal restraints"; "restraints imposed on imports"

   Antonyms:
   unrestraint

   Synonyms:
   control, constraint, simplicity, chasteness, simpleness

5. chasteness, restraint, simplicity, simplenessnoun

   lack of ornamentation

   "the room was simply decorated with great restraint"

   Antonyms:
   unrestraint

   Synonyms:
   simple mindedness, simmpleness, control, ease, easiness, simplicity, chasteness, constraint, simpleness

6. restraint, constraintnoun

   a device that retards something's motion

   "the car did not have proper restraints fitted"

   Antonyms:
   unrestraint

   Synonyms:
   control, constraint, simplicity, chasteness, simpleness

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1. restraintnoun

   Synonyms:
   repression, constraint, check, suppression, limitation, prevention, confinement, duress

How to use restraint in a sentence?

1. Alexis de Tocqueville:

   Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

2. George Bernard Shaw:

   It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.

3. Antony Blinken:

   And just as we've been clear with Moscow, we're also urging Ukraine to continue to exercise restraint, because again, the Russian playbook is to claim provocation for something that they were planning to do all along.

4. Keith Ellison:

   We must all be committed to establish the facts of what happened in the interest of justice, we must come together to heal our community and work together toward justice and fairness. I call on demonstrators to remain peaceful, and on law enforcement to exercise restraint.

5. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier:

   As part of the Munich Agreement ... all sides are called on - even before the start of a ceasefire - to contribute to an immediate reduction in violence, that goes for Russia and the Syrian regime's military operations around Aleppo and the latest attacks by PYD militias in northern Syria. In view of the tense situation, Turkey too must show restraint.

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