1. Physically held back, bound, confined, or prevented from movement
   "The restrained prisoner was unable to move"
    
2. Showing reserve or restraint in expressing feelings or opinions
   "His restrained response to the news surprised everyone";
   - reticent, unemotional
    
3. Marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes
   "restrained in his response";
   - moderate
    
4. Not showy or obtrusive
   "clothes in restrained good taste";
   - quiet
    
5. Prudent
   "restrained optimism";
   - guarded

1. Hold back physically
   "She had to restrain her dog from chasing the cat"
    
2. To close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
   "The guards restrained the violent prisoner";
   - confine, hold, constrain
    
3. Prevent the action or expression of
   "she struggled to restrain her impatience at the delays";
   - keep, keep back, hold back
    
4. Prevent (someone or something) from doing something
   "security guards restrained the reporter from throwing another shoe"

See also: cautious, close, controlled, inhibited, low-key, low-keyed, reserved, subdued, temperate, undemonstrative, unexpansive, unostentatious, unpretending, unpretentious

Type of: act, bound, confine, disable, disenable [archaic], incapacitate, keep, limit, move, prevent, restrict, throttle, trammel

Antonym: unrestrained

Encyclopedia: Restrain