Pent-up synonyms and antonyms

pĕnt'ŭp'

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restrained (related)
Characterized by self-restraint; reserved:
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stored
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repressed
(Medicine) Showing the suppression of emotions or impulses.
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bridled
Equipped with a bridle; controlled.
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held in check
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checked
Held in check; restrained.
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inhibited
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released (antonym)
held within
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public (antonym)
The definition of public is something that is related to, available to or known by people.
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self-doubt (related)
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self-disgust (related)
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restricted (related)
Available only to certain authorized groups of people
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Pent-up Sentence Examples

  • Many people with pent up anxiety will engage in sports such as football, baseball, or tennis.

  • All this time Heloise had lived amid universal esteem for her knowledge and character, uttering no word under the doom that had fallen upon her youth; but now, at last, the occasion came for expressing all the pent-up emotions of her soul.

  • Under the scathing criticism of the opposition the pent-up fury of the original speaker vented itself into a fiery harangue.

  • Stress builds up a great deal of pent up energy that needs to go somewhere.

  • The wonderful thing about any art form is that it allows you to release pent up feelings without having to follow "the rules".

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