Unrestrained vs Rife - What's the difference?
unrestrained | rife |
immoderate; not restrained or held in check
spontaneous, natural and informal; unconstrained
Not subject to physical restraint.
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Widespread, common (especially of unpleasant or harmful things).
* Arbuthnot
* Milton
* 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 170:
* 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic climbs highest to sink Benfica'' (in ''The Guardian , 15 May 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/may/15/benfica-chelsea-europa-league]
Abounding; present in large numbers, plentiful.
(obsolete) Having power; active; nimble.
* J. Webster
Plentifully, abundantly.
As an adjective unrestrained
is immoderate; not restrained or held in check.As a proper noun rife is
(region in northern morocco).unrestrained
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The party was a scene of unrestrained debauchery.
- Their meeting was one of unrestrained joy.
- Managing unrestrained prisoners alone in any environment is inherently dangerous and should not be tolerated.
Antonyms
* restrainedDerived terms
* unrestrainedly * unrestrainednessSee also
* rampant * unbridledrife
English
Adjective
(er)- Smallpox was rife after the siege had been lifted.
- Before the plague of London, inflammations of the lungs were rife and mortal.
- The tumult of loud mirth was rife .
- The 'denominational considerations' mentioned below relate, of course, to anti-Semitic feeling, which was already rife in Vienna during the last years of the nineteenth century.
- They will have to reflect on a seventh successive defeat in a European final while Chelsea try to make sense of an eccentric season rife with controversy and bad feeling but once again one finishing on an exhilarating high.
- These woodlands are rife with red deer.
- What! I am rife a little yet.
Adverb
(en adverb)- The snowdrops grow rife on the slopes of Mount Pembroke.