Similar words: unconstrained, constrainedly, constrain, constraint, strained, restrained, unrestrained, trained. Meaning: [-nd] 
adj. lacking spontaneity; not natural.
adj. lacking spontaneity; not natural. 
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1. Hunger constrained him to eat.
2. Cold weather constrained the plant's growth.
3. The company said that it was constrained to raise prices.
4. Women are too often constrained by family commitments and by low expectations.
5. The evidence was so compelling that he felt constrained to accept it.
6. I feel constrained to write and ask for your forgiveness.
7. His anger could not be constrained, up and up they surged.
8. Changes in temperature occur slowly and are constrained within relatively tight bounds.
9. She felt tightly constrained by her family commitments.
10. Poor soil has constrained the level of crop production.
11. Research has been constrained by a lack of funds.
12. He felt constrained to accept the invitation.
13. For some reason he felt constrained to lower his voice.
14. She felt constrained from continuing by the threat of losing her job.
15. I felt constrained to do what I was unwilling to do myself.
16. Men and women are becoming less constrained by stereotyped roles.
17. Don't feel constrained to do what he says - he's got no authority.
18. The country's progress was constrained by a leader who refused to look forward.
19. Women's employment opportunities are often severely constrained by family commitments.
20. I feel constrained to tell the truth.
21. It is constrained only by Ethernet.
22. Wealth, however, is not similarly constrained.
23. Even observation is constrained by practical issues of access.
24. The more highly constrained and ritualised the genre, the more likely we are to be able to identify norms.
25. Thirdly, estimate the elasticity of the constrained labour demand function with respect to the real wage rate.
26. Teachers have always been constrained by the demands of examinations and the expectations of parents.
27. But workers' influence has been more constrained than these provisions might suggest.
28. She felt constrained creatively by the reactions of the critics[sentencedict.com], even making conscious interventions to redress their interpretations.
29. He seemed to be behaving in a strange and constrained manner.
30. Nor does it mean that the new controllers are any less constrained by the pressures of markets and profitability than old-style entrepreneurs.
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