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
  • Philanthropy is an essential part of our community’s strength, but it cannot reasonably be expected to replace the public investment needed to sustain essential services.
    — Julie Price, Sun Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2026
  • That has already been true, just because any reasonably sized organization generates terabytes of logs, if not petabytes of logs.
    — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of reasonably
Adverb
  • Multifamily residential complexes are uncommon in Oxford, a moderately wealthy suburb of about 13,000.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 28 Oct. 2026
  • 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
Definition of moderately
Adverb
  • Owens not only lacked an undergraduate degree but did poorly in school, where she was described as a hopeless case.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The researchers are now incorporating F³ into autonomous drones designed to navigate cluttered and poorly lit environments.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of poorly
Adverb
  • If the utilities commission agrees that the company acted prudently, Edison’s liabilities for the fire would be fully covered by a $21-billion state wildfire fund.
    — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Fiduciaries are bound to act prudently on behalf of their beneficiaries.
    — Andrew Behar, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of prudently
Adverb
  • Each side is usually acting sensibly, based on its own assumptions.
    — Anas Bhairi, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
  • While Shadab outsmarted England pace with his brilliant batting, Rauf gave him ample support by sensibly not going for expansive shots.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of sensibly
Adverb
  • Adidas has been managing wholesaling conservatively to protect its full-price products, the company said in its statement.
    — Cathrin Schaer, Footwear News, 29 Oct. 2026
  • The state of college football is in flux these days, to put it conservatively.
    — Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of conservatively
Adverb
  • The challenge is economically extracting its nearly invisible ions from brine.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Of course, Musk could simply do what many think is impossible — or at least economically infeasible — and ditch terrestrial AI instrastructure altogether.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of economically
Adverb
  • The less-than-truckload (LTL) market further tightened in the third quarter, as more carriers with spare terminal capacity picked up freight that truckload carriers can no longer move cheaply or reliably.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Sometimes word clouds are big-budget supergraphics realized by design firms like Pentagram, but often they are produced cheaply and quickly by non-designers, or by anonymous Etsy merchants, or in-house at printing and signage companies.
    — Alec Mapes-Frances, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of cheaply
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