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Animated vs Restrained - What's the difference?

animated | restrained |

As adjectives the difference between animated and restrained

is that animated is endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous while restrained is held back, limited, kept in check or under control.

As verbs the difference between animated and restrained

is that animated is past tense of animate while restrained is past tense of restrain.

animated

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous.
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    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;

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    Verb

    (head)
  • (animate)

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    restrained

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Held back, limited, kept in check or under control.
    • He greeted her for the first time in three years with a restrained embrace.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (restrain)
    • He was restrained by the straight jacket.

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