restrainedly

adverb

as in reasonably

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for restrainedly
  1. reasonably
  2. moderately
  3. poorly
  4. prudently
  5. sensibly
  6. conservatively
  7. economically
  8. cheaply
Adverb
  • The screen has ample brightness for sunlit rooms and reasonably vibrant colors.
    — Charles Jefferies, PC Magazine, 31 Oct. 2026
  • Given the stock's current trajectory, the main risk is a broader market sell-off dragging GOOGL below the $250 short strike, but that would be a reasonably attractive entry price.
    — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of reasonably
Adverb
  • Knead in enough of the remaining bread flour to make a moderately soft and slightly tacky dough that is smooth and elastic (3 to 5 minutes total).
    — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Today’s puzzle took our testers an average of 5 guesses out of 6, or moderately challenging.
    — New York Times Games, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of moderately
Adverb
  • Things were going poorly even before Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign ran the most offensive ad of the year.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2026
  • His season started poorly with an injury in the first game of the year.
    — OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of poorly
Adverb
  • Jiangxing Intelligence, a physical AI firm, has developed an AI ‘brain’ that monitors environmental conditions around renewable energy infrastructure to ensure electricity is collected and stored prudently.
    — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Under a 2019 law brought by Newsom to protect utilities from bankruptcy, the companies automatically are deemed to have acted prudently if regulators sign off on their wildfire prevention plan.
    — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of prudently
Adverb
  • My favorite picture in the book finds a sensibly blue Subaru station wagon that has somehow turned on its side in the middle of the night.
    — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Given the limited floorspace, Tiny Tect Tiny Houses has sensibly kept the interior layout quite simple.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of sensibly
Adverb
  • Smotherman finished off his round of 66 with a 10-foot par save while trying to play as conservatively as possible in wind that lived up its reputation in Bermuda.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Some gets priced conservatively because there isn’t enough time to evaluate it properly.
    — Shiva Dhawan, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of conservatively
Adverb
  • Companies would get a tax credit if the jobs are located within economically disadvantaged regions designated by a city formula that mostly covers the South, Southwest and West sides.
    — Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026
  • The immediate goal is to establish whether Stibnite’s tungsten deposits can be developed into a technically and economically viable source.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of economically
Adverb
  • Shelie Miller, a University of Michigan professor who studies the environmental impacts of products, said Halloween costumes, like fast fashion, are often made cheaply from plastic materials.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026
  • That's the reason why a major trend in military spheres is to create counter-drone systems that are not only effective, but can be built cheaply and in vast numbers in a short time.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of cheaply
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