UNRESTRAINED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unrestrained mean? 

• UNRESTRAINED (adjective)
  The adjective UNRESTRAINED has 2 senses:

1. not subject to restraint

2. marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion

  Familiarity information: UNRESTRAINED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNRESTRAINED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not subject to restraint

Context example:

unrestrained laughter

Similar:

excessive; extravagant; exuberant; overweening (unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings)

freewheeling (free of restraints or rules)

highflying (extravagant or ambitious or extreme in aims or opinions)

unbridled; unchecked; uncurbed; ungoverned (not restrained or controlled)

unbuttoned; unlaced (not under constraint in action or expression)

unhampered; unhindered (not slowed or blocked or interfered with)

Also:

uncontrolled (not being under control; out of control)

free (not limited or hampered; not under compulsion or restraint)

uninhibited (not inhibited or restrained)

unreserved (not cautious or reticent)

Antonym:

restrained (under restraint)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion

Synonyms:

delirious; excited; frantic; mad; unrestrained

Context example:

a mad whirl of pleasure

Similar:

wild (marked by extreme lack of restraint or control)

 Context examples 

Mr. Darcy was eyeing him with unrestrained wonder, and when at last Mr. Collins allowed him time to speak, replied with an air of distant civility.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Tears, unrestrained, fell from my brother’s eyes; a sense of mortal agony crept over my frame.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Beyond normal limits; unrestrained.

(Excessive, NCI Thesaurus)

It reminded me of our old acquaintance; it seemed the natural sequel of it; it showed me that he was unchanged; it relieved me of any uneasiness I might have felt, in comparing my merits with his, and measuring my claims upon his friendship by any equal standard; above all, it was a familiar, unrestrained, affectionate demeanour that he used towards no one else.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mrs. Dashwood, too happy to be comfortable, knew not how to love Edward, nor praise Elinor enough, how to be enough thankful for his release without wounding his delicacy, nor how at once to give them leisure for unrestrained conversation together, and yet enjoy, as she wished, the sight and society of both.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

As Elinor was neither musical, nor affecting to be so, she made no scruple of turning her eyes from the grand pianoforte, whenever it suited her, and unrestrained even by the presence of a harp, and violoncello, would fix them at pleasure on any other object in the room.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Clerval at first attributed my unusual spirits to joy on his arrival, but when he observed me more attentively, he saw a wildness in my eyes for which he could not account, and my loud, unrestrained, heartless laughter frightened and astonished him.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I ejaculated an unrestrained "Huh!" and he must have heard me for he went on nervously: What I called up about was a pair of shoes I left there. I wonder if it'd be too much trouble to have the butler send them on. You see they're tennis shoes and I'm sort of helpless without them. My address is care of B. F.—

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)