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restraintnoun the checking of one's true feelings and impulses when dealing with othersit will take a great deal of restraint to keep from telling her how ugly that dress is constraint, continence, discipline, discretion, inhibition, refrainment, repression, reserve, self-command, self-control, self-restraint, suppression command, control, mastery, possessionself-censorship, self-containment, self-denial, self-discipline, self-government, self-mastery, will, willpowercomposure, self-poise, self-possessionaloofness, detachedness, distancebashfulness, modesty, shynessreticence, silence, taciturnity disinhibition, incontinence, unconstraint self-abandonment, uninhibitednessunrestrainednessgratification, indulgence, overindulgence, self-indulgencebluntness, candor, franknessimmoderacy, intemperance something that limits one's freedom of action or choicecivil libertarians contend that the new laws place too many restraints on our constitutionally guaranteed rights check, circumscription, condition, constraint, curb, fetter, limitation, restriction, stricture exception, proviso, qualification, reservation, stipulation, stringsban, prohibition, proscription freedom, latitude the power to control one's actions, impulses, or emotionshe shows very little restraint or tact when expressing his opinions about others continence, self-command, self-containment, self-control, self-discipline, self-government, self-mastery, self-possession, self-restraint, will, willpower self-abnegation, self-denialmoderateness, moderation, temperance, temperatenessdetermination, nervecommand, control, discipline, masteryabnegation, abstention, avoidance, eschewal, forbearanceabstinence, soberness, sobrietyaplomb, assurance, composure, confidence, coolness, equanimity, poise, self-confidencediscretion gratification, indulgence, self-indulgenceexcessiveness, immoderacy, intemperance, intemperateness, overindulgencedemerit, failing, fault, feebleness, foible, frailty, shortcoming, vice, weaknessindiscipline, unconstraint, unreserve, unreservedness, unrestraint in the 15th century |