as in abandon
carefree freedom from constraint
the cheerful unrestraint of children
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Recent Examples of unrestraint
He had never spoken with such fathoms of unrestraint.
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Benjamin Hedin, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2017
Benjamin Hedin, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrestraint
Noun
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On the way, though, the players would push and shove with abandon.—
Jaclyn Diaz,
NPR,
28 Jan. 2026
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Since the mid-1990s, one government after another added to Tokyo’s debt load with abandon.—
William Pesek,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Old wounds around rejection or abandonment may rise to the surface… not to punish you, but to be finally resolved.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
29 Jan. 2026
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This language can suggest frequent pivots and abandonment of projects.—
Cheryl Robinson,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The Windsor family often shares moments during this time of year that reflect their warmth and naturalness.—
María Munsuri,
Glamour,
25 Dec. 2025
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Frogposting, then, pits the intractably byzantine, soulless and cutthroat nature of the contemporary economy in a simple binary against what the posters envision as the green, healthy, naturalness of the Earth—framed as a joke, the base unit of online commentary.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
3 Dec. 2025
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“Unrestraint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrestraint. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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