un·re·strained

(ŭn′rĭ-strānd′)

adj.

1. Not controlled or held in check; immoderate: unrestrained exploitation of natural resources.

2. Uninhibited or unreserved: an unrestrained personality.

un′re·strain′ed·ly (-strā′nĭd-lē) adv.

un′re·strain′ed·ness n.

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unrestrained

(ˌʌnrɪˈstreɪnd)

adj

not restrained or checked; free or natural

unrestrainedly adv

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Adj.	1.	unrestrained - not subject to restraint; "unrestrained laughter" uncontrolled - not being under control; out of control; "the greatest uncontrolled health problem is AIDS"; "uncontrolled growth" free - able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint; "free enterprise"; "a free port"; "a free country"; "I have an hour free"; "free will"; "free of racism"; "feel free to stay as long as you wish"; "a free choice" uninhibited - not inhibited or restrained; "uninhibited exuberance" unreserved - not cautious or reticent; "unreserved behavior" restrained - under restraint
	2.	unrestrained - marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure" delirious, frantic, mad, excited wild - marked by extreme lack of restraint or control; "wild talk"; "wild parties"

unrestrained

adjective uncontrolled, uninhibited, unbridled, free, natural, abandoned, unlimited, unchecked, inordinate, unhindered, intemperate, unbounded, unconstrained, immoderate, unrepressed There was unrestrained joy on the faces of the people.
restrained, inhibited, repressed, checked, frustrated, hindered, constrained

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unrestrained

adjective

1. Able to move about at will without bounds or restraint:

free, loose, unconfined.

Idioms: at large, at liberty, free as a bird, on the loose.

2. Lacking in moral restraint:

abandoned, dissipated, dissolute, fast, gay, incontinent, licentious, profligate, rakish, unbridled, unconstrained, uncontrolled, ungoverned, uninhibited, wanton, wild.

3. Unconstrained by rigid standards or ceremony:

casual, easy, easygoing, informal, natural, relaxed, spontaneous, unceremonious.

Informal: laid-back.

Translations

unbändig

sfrenato

unrestrained

[ˈʌnrɪˈstreɪnd] ADJ

1. (= uncontrolled) [joy, laughter, violence] → desenfrenado, incontrolado; [enthusiasm] → desbordante
to be unrestrained by morality → no estar frenado por la moralidad
to be unrestrained in one's views → expresar su opinión sin reservas

2. (= not held physically) [car passenger] → sin cinturón; [patient, prisoner] → sin maniatar

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unrestrained

[ˌʌnrɪˈstreɪnd] adj

[violence] → déchaîné(e); [aggression] → sans bornes, incontrôlé(e); [laughter] → incontrôlé(e)

(= without seat belt) [passenger, child] → non attaché(e)

(= unhampered) → non entravé(e)

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unrestrained

adj

→ uneingeschränkt, unkontrolliert; feelings → offen, ungehemmt; joy, enthusiasm, atmosphere → ungezügelt; language, behaviour → ausfallend, unbeherrscht; laughter → hemmungslos, unkontrolliert; violence → hemmungslos, ungezügelt; to be unrestrained in one’s views → in seinen Ansichten nicht zurückhaltend sein

(physically) → ungehindert

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unrestrained

[ˌʌnrɪˈstreɪnd] adj → sfrenato/a

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Their unrestrained laughter filling the hot, fern-clad ravine had a soulless limpidity, as of wild, inhuman dwellers in tropical woodlands.

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I compare her to one of those raging rivers, which when in flood overflows the plains, sweeping away trees and buildings, bearing away the soil from place to place; everything flies before it, all yield to its violence, without being able in any way to withstand it; and yet, though its nature be such, it does not follow therefore that men, when the weather becomes fair, shall not make provision, both with defences and barriers, in such a manner that, rising again, the waters may pass away by canal, and their force be neither so unrestrained nor so dangerous.

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Linton complied; and had he been unrestrained, would probably have spoiled all by filling his epistles with complaints and lamentations.

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What of the mode of service in which etiquette was replaced by order; stiff formality by personal, unrestrained comfort; the happiness and contentment of the guest became the supreme law of all who obeyed the host?

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Every one of Lady Tresham's guests had accepted the hurried invitation, every one seemed in good spirits, and delighted at the opportunity of unrestrained conversation after several hours at the theatre.

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We are not authorized to expect that a more liberal or more equitable spirit would preside over the legislations of the individual States hereafter, if unrestrained by any additional checks, than we have heretofore seen in too many instances disgracing their several codes.

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Unrestrained by the young man's presence she threw up her mouth, put her lips near the bars, and piped away in easeful grace to the attentive listeners.

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He evidently wanted to do all the talking himself, and continued to talk with the sort of eloquence and unrestrained irritability to which spoiled people are so prone.

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He had seen men before with the jungle madness upon them--the madness of solitude and unrestrained brooding, and perhaps a touch of fever.

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The war-songs and dances were more unrestrained, and, from abuse, the plantation blacks had turned to pelting their helpless foes with pieces of wood, handfuls of pebbles, and chunks of coral-rock.

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The ignorant English mind (I have observed) is apt to be insolent in the exercise of unrestrained English liberty.

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The ponies caper and kick, in unrestrained enjoyment of their freedom; and sometimes follow, sometimes precede us, as the humor of the moment inclines them.

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