unrestrained
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪnd
Adjective
unrestrained (comparative more unrestrained, superlative most unrestrained)
- immoderate; not restrained or held in check
- The party was a scene of unrestrained debauchery.
- spontaneous, natural and informal; unconstrained
- Their meeting was one of unrestrained joy.
- Not subject to physical restraint.
- 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 [...].
- 2009, Russell Colling, Tony W. York, Hospital and Healthcare Security (page 346)
Antonyms
- restrained
Derived terms
- unrestrainedly
- unrestrainedness
Related terms
- restrain
- restrained
Translations
not held in check
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unconstrained
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Verb
unrestrained
- simple past tense and past participle of unrestrain
See also
- rampant
- unbridled