Overrestrained
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Overrestrained is an adjective meaning Excessively restrained.
Meaning
Excessively restrained.
More Meanings
- simple past and past participle of overrestrain
Example Sentences
The patient felt unable to tolerate his alternately seductive and passive, overrestrained behavior.
It continues to pin bankers in an overregulated and overrestrained structure and adds considerable microregulatory imperatives.
Are the youth's behaviors under- or overrestrained? Overrestrained youth tend to be older, more socialized, deceptively mature, academically functional, more violent, and commit fewer CD behaviors than underrestrained youth (Loeber & Hay, 1997).
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include overrestrictive, overlimited, overstrenuous, overstrict, overregimented, overstiff.
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