Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

overrestrained

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: over-restrained
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Excessively restrained.

verb

simple past and past participle of overrestrain

Example Sentences

"The patient felt unable to tolerate his alternately seductive and passive, overrestrained behavior."
"It continues to pin bankers in an overregulated and overrestrained structure and adds considerable microregulatory imperatives."
"Are the youth's behaviors under- or overrestrained? Overrestrained youth tend to be older, more socialized, deceptively mature, academically functional, more violent, and commit fewer CD behaviors than underrestrained youth (Loeber & Hay, 1997)."

Etymology

From over- + restrained.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: over

Inflected Forms

more overrestrained (comparative) most overrestrained (superlative)

Questions

What does overrestrained mean?: Excessively restrained.
Where does overrestrained come from?: From over- + restrained.

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