constrained
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kənˈstɹeɪnd/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪnd
Adjective
constrained (comparative more constrained, superlative most constrained)
- Kept within close bounds; confined.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 54:
- The epistle is opened and read—with a little wonder, most probably not a little vexation, at its constrained style.
- Forced; compelled.
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