Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Not controlled or held in check; immoderate.
  • adjective Uninhibited or unreserved.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not restrained; not controlled; not confined; not hindered; not limited.
  • Licentious; loose.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective immoderate; not restrained or held in check
  • adjective spontaneous, natural and informal; unconstrained

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective not subject to restraint
  • adjective marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion

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Examples

  • The joint Guardian-LSE Reading the Riots project has shown that the interpretation of the riots as an expression of unrestrained greed and lawlessness is only a partial account.

    Public disorder: riots and wrongs 2011

  • What makes him somewhat leftist is that he locates the evil in unrestrained and unbridled capitalism (he even makes a stab at free market economists having blood on their hands).

    Tales of Corporate Earth 2005

  • What makes him somewhat leftist is that he locates the evil in unrestrained and unbridled capitalism (he even makes a stab at free market economists having blood on their hands).

    Tales of Corporate Earth 2005

  • What makes him somewhat leftist is that he locates the evil in unrestrained and unbridled capitalism (he even makes a stab at free market economists having blood on their hands).

    The Sudden Curve: 2005

  • In the sixties and seventies, Toronto had a booming and free -- as in unrestrained -- rental market.

    Dear Mr. Government, Love Me, But Leave Me—Alone 1982

  • (London, Intermediate Technology Development Group) 1982, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. (13) Smith, R.G.: Long-term unrestrained expansion of test bricks in Transactions of the British Ceramic Society (London), 1973,

    Chapter 15 1984

  • United States to head off the Socialistic program, which, unrestrained, is sure to wreck our country.

    The Class Struggle 1903

  • These statements of the Psalmist were indeed suggested by particular manifestations of human depravity occurring under his own eye; but as this only showed what man, when unrestrained, is in his present condition, they were quite pertinent to the apostle's purpose.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • However I do think the concept of (homo) sexual desire unrestrained is being used to signify the depravity of the Sodomites just as (inter-racial) sexual desire unrestrained is being used to signify the depravity of the blacks in "Birth of a Nation".

    Wisdom, Justice And Mercy Hal Duncan 2006

  • From his discussion regarding the way we collect information to his criticism of the government’s compliance in unrestrained capitalism, he pretty much summed up the reasons for the climate we see today in the American political and economic system.

    Live Blog from the Anchor Desk: 9/17/09 2009

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