say it: kuhn-TROHLD
controlled is an adjective meaning "restrained or managed or kept within certain bounds". 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.