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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | chaste, pure |
| Synonyms: | abstemious, abstentious, abstinent, ascetic, austere, bridled, celibate, curbed, inhibited, modest, restrained, self-restrained, sober, temperate |
| Antonyms: | impure, incontinent, unchaste |
| Main Entry: | pent-up |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | held within |
| Synonyms: | bottled-up, bridled, checked, constrained, curbed, held in check, held-back, inhibited, repressed, restrained, restricted, smothered, stifled, suppressed |
| Antonyms: | public, released |
| Main Entry: | silent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | quiet; speechless |
| Synonyms: | bashful, buttoned up, checked, clammed up, close, closed up, closemouthed, curbed, dumb, dummied up, faint, hush, hushed, iced, inarticulate, incoherent, inconversable, indistinct, inhibited, laconic, mousy, mum, mute, muted, noiseless, nonvocal, not talkative, reserved, restrained, reticent, shy, silentious, soundless, still, struck dumb, taciturn, tongue-tied, unclear, uncommunicative, unheard, unsociable, unspeaking, voiceless, wordless, zipped |
| Antonyms: | clamorous, communicative, noisy, talkative |
| Main Entry: | temperate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | calm, moderate |
| Synonyms: | agreeable, balmy, checked, clement, collected, composed, conservative, constant, cool, curbed, discreet, dispassionate, equable, even, even-tempered, fair, gentle, levelheaded, medium, mild, modest, pleasant, reasonable, regulated, restrained, self-controlled, self-restrained, sensible, sober, soft, stable, steady, unexcessive, unextreme, unimpassioned, warm |
| Antonyms: | immoderate, stormy, violent |
| Main Entry: | handicapped |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thwarted |
| Synonyms: | balked, blocked, burdened, checked, crippled, curbed, deterred, disabled, disadvantaged, encumbered, foiled, hampered, impeded, limited, mentally disabled, obstructed, physically challenged, physically disabled, restrained, restricted, stymied, wounded |
| Antonyms: | aided, helped, supported |
| Main Entry: | restricted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | limited |
| Synonyms: | barred, blocked, bound, bounded, bridled, chained, checked, clogged, closed, confined, controlled, cramped, curbed, decreased, defined, deprived, deterred, diminished, encircled, encircled, fastened, fettered, foiled, frustrated, governed, hampered, held back, hitched, impeded, inhibited, manacled, moderated, modified, narrowed, obstructed, prescribed, prevented, reduced, reined in, repressed, restrained, secured, shortened, small, stayed, stopped, suppressed, surrounded, tempered, tethered |
| Main Entry: | smothered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | suppressed |
| Synonyms: | bridled, checked, constrained, curbed, held back, repressed, stifled |
| Main Entry: | hushed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | silent |
| Synonyms: | bashful, buttoned up, checked, clammed up, close, closed up, closemouthed, curbed, dumb, dummied up, faint, hush, iced, inarticulate, incoherent, inconversable, indistinct, inhibited, laconic, mousy, mum, mute, muted, noiseless, nonvocal, not talkativ |
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