🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

desenfreado

Pronunciation / Transliteration: desenfre-adu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Unrestrained/ˌʌn.rɪˈstreɪnd/
adjectiveCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #4500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Eles demonstraram um entusiasmo desenfreado."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Not kept under control; uncontrolled or uninhibited.

    "The announcement was met with unrestrained joy from the fans."
  2. 2

    Not constrained or limited by rules or boundaries.

    "He expressed his unrestrained opinions on the matter."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the prefix un- (meaning 'not') combined with restrained, the past participle of restrain. Restrain stems from the Old French 'restreindre', originating from the Latin 'restringere', meaning 'to bind back' or 'hold back'.

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