INDRAWN Synonyms: 76 Similar and Opposite Words

indrawn

adjective

Definition of indrawn

as in reserved

inclined or tending to avoid other people The indrawn child preferred to sit and read during recess rather than socialize with other children.

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These tools include a new reserved cart which only holds items for checkout for a limited time before releasing them back into the storefront.

— Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 14 July 2026
General parking will run you $35, while reserved parking will be $55, according to Ticketmaster.

— Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 14 July 2026

Definition of reserved

Adjective

Nonlocality, whose experimental verification helped earn the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, allows distant quantum systems to produce correlations that cannot be explained by classical physics alone.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 18 July 2026
That can change, but this is probably measured in decades, not years—and seems more distant today than in the recent past.

— Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, Fortune, 17 July 2026

Definition of distant

Adjective

Guests return year on year, generation on generation, making Coral Reef Club the perfect antidote to the detached, impersonal sheen of the modern chain resort.

— Jonnie Bayfield, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2026
Or a pig’s leg lying off to the side, detached and jittering, could resemble Ted’s leg.

— Will Mackin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026

Definition of detached

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Occasionally our wells run a little dry, and that’s our cue to go fill them up again with all kinds of beautiful things.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
The combination of extreme heat and dry conditions in Ontario and northern Minnesota led to significant spread of wildfires on July 13.

— Ava Berger, NPR, 16 July 2026

Definition of dry

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Suki, a vocal Black woman with an at times vulgar persona, whereas Althoff, a white woman, gained a reputation as an awkward, seemingly timid interviewer on her The Really Good Podcast.

— Meagan Jordan, VIBE.com, 10 July 2026
But looked at another way, Caine and other generals are being overly timid and deferential, in part because Pete Hegseth demands it.

— Missy Ryan, The Atlantic, 10 July 2026

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