restraint

Other forms of restraint

plural

restraints·

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.

Questions about restraint

What does restraint mean?

restraint means "the act of controlling by restraining someone or something". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in restraint?

restraint has 2 syllables: re-straint. The stress falls on "straint". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈstɹeɪnt/.

What is another word for restraint?

Close synonyms include control, constraint, chasteness, simplicity, simpleness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of restraint?

The recorded antonyms are unrestraint.

Is restraint a common word?

restraint is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with restraint?

1 word rhymes with restraint. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.