restraint
/ɹɪˈstɹeɪnt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.64 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Make sure all the restraints are tight."
- "At the centre of Stalin’s superiority over his competitors was certainly his intense will, just as Napoleon ranked what he called ‘moral fortitude’ higher in a general than genius or experience. When Milovan Djilas said to Stalin during the Yugoslav-Soviet discussions in Moscow during the war that the Serbian politician Gavrilović was ‘a shrewd man’, Stalin commented, as though to himself: ‘Yes, there are politicians who think shrewdness is the main thing in politics. . . .’⁴⁴ His was a will-power taken to a logical extreme. There is something non-human about his almost total lack of normal restraints upon it."
- "Try to exercise restraint when talking to your boss."
- "City will feel nonplussed when they review the tape and Pellegrini had to summon all his restraint in the post-match interviews."
Etymology
From Middle English restreynte, from Old French restreinte; more at restrain.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *streyg-, restreynte, restreinte