SELF-RESTRAINT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does self-restraint mean? 

• SELF-RESTRAINT (noun)
  The noun SELF-RESTRAINT has 1 sense:

1. exhibiting restraint imposed on the self

  Familiarity information: SELF-RESTRAINT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELF-RESTRAINT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exhibiting restraint imposed on the self

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

self-restraint; temperateness

Context example:

an effective temperateness in debate

Hypernyms ("self-restraint" is a kind of...):

control; restraint (discipline in personal and social activities)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "self-restraint"):

stiff upper lip (self-restraint in the expression of emotion (especially fear or grief))

 Context examples 

I shall hold myself strongly in leash, and see whether by this self-restraint I attain a more favorable result.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and firmness.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As she swept silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong character, with immense capacity for self-restraint.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)