Pent-up synonyms

pĕnt'ŭp'

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restrained (related)
Characterized by self-restraint; reserved:
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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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stored
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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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Find another word for pent-up. In this page you can discover 13 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for pent-up, like: restrained, repressed, bridled, suppressed, stored, held in check, checked, inhibited, released, public and self-doubt.
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Pent-up Sentence Examples

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

  • In doing so, we must be careful to remember that the study of the classics did but give a special impulse to pent-up energies which were bound in one way or another to assert their independence.

  • 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.

  • pent-up frustration for all the grief everyone had had with the hotel.

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