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unrestrained | null |

As an adjective unrestrained

is immoderate; not restrained or held in check.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

unrestrained

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • immoderate; not restrained or held in check
  • The party was a scene of unrestrained debauchery.
  • spontaneous, natural and informal; unconstrained
  • Their meeting was one of unrestrained joy.
  • Not subject to physical restraint.
  • * 2009 , Russell Colling, ?Tony W. York, Hospital and Healthcare Security (page 346)
  • Managing unrestrained prisoners alone in any environment is inherently dangerous and should not be tolerated.

    Antonyms

    * restrained

    Derived terms

    * unrestrainedly * unrestrainedness

    See also

    * rampant * unbridled

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----