RESTRAINED


Meaning of RESTRAINED in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ rɪstreɪnd ]

1.

Someone who is restrained is very calm and unemotional.

In the circumstances he felt he’d been very restrained...

ADJ

2.

If you describe someone’s clothes or the decorations in a house as restrained , you mean that you like them because they are simple and not too brightly-coloured.

Her black suit was restrained and expensive.

ADJ [ approval ]

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