say it: kuhn-TROHLD
controlled is an adjective meaning "restrained or managed or kept within certain bounds". It is pronounced /kənˈtɹoʊld/ — kuhn-TROHLD. It carries one recorded sense.
restrained or managed or kept within certain bounds
“controlled emotions”
“the controlled release of water from reservoirs”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for controlled come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.