Synonyms of the word subdued


SUBDUEDDARK - DIM - DULL - HUSHED - LOW-KEY - LOW-KEYED - MUTED - QUIET - RESTRAINED - SOFT - TAME

subdued

  • adj. Conquered; overpowered; crushed; submissive; mild.
  • adj. Not glaring in color; soft and light in tone.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of subdue.

dark

  • adj. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
  • adj. (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
  • adj. Hidden, secret, obscure.
  • adj. Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
  • adj. Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
  • adj. Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period.
  • adj. With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction…
  • n. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
  • n. (uncountable) Ignorance.
  • n. (uncountable) Nightfall.
  • n. A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.

dim

  • adj. Not bright or colorful.
  • adj. (colloquial) Not smart or intelligent.
  • adj. Indistinct, hazy or unclear.
  • adj. Disapproving, unfavorable: rarely used outside the phrase take a dim view of.
  • adv. Dimly, indistinctly.
  • n. (archaic) Dimness.
  • v. (transitive) To make something less bright.
  • v. (intransitive) To become darker.
  • v. To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct; to take away the luster of; to darken;…
  • v. To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes;…

dull

  • adj. Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
  • adj. Boring; not exciting or interesting.
  • adj. Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
  • adj. Not bright or intelligent; stupid; slow of understanding.
  • adj. Sluggish, listless.
  • adj. Cloudy, overcast.
  • adj. Insensible; unfeeling.
  • adj. Heavy; lifeless; inert.
  • adj. (of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
  • adj. (of a noise or sound) Not clear, muffled.
  • v. (transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
  • v. (transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
  • v. (intransitive) To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
  • v. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.

hushed

  • adj. Very quietly; in soft tones.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of hush.

low-key

  • adj. Restrained, subtle, not trying to attract attention.
  • adj. (photography) Dark, with little or no fill light and high lighting ratio.

low-keyed

  • adj. Relaxed, unstressful, not pressured.

muted

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of mute.

quiet

  • adj. With little or no sound; free of disturbing noise.
  • adj. Having little motion or activity; calm.
  • adj. Not busy, of low quantity.
  • adj. Not talking much or not talking loudly; reserved.
  • adj. Not showy; undemonstrative.
  • adj. (software) Requiring little or no interaction.
  • v. To become quiet, silent, still, tranquil, calm.
  • v. To cause someone to become quiet.
  • n. The absence of sound; quietness.
  • n. the absence of movement; stillness, tranquility.
  • interj. Be quiet.

restrained

  • adj. Held back, limited, kept in check or under control.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of restrain.

soft

  • adj. Easily giving way under pressure.
  • adj. (of cloth or similar material) Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.
  • adj. (of a sound) Quiet.
  • adj. Gentle.
  • adj. Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind.
  • adj. Gentle in action or motion; easy.
  • adj. Weak in character; impressible.
  • adj. Requiring little or no effort; easy.
  • adj. Not bright or intense.
  • adj. Having a slight angle from straight.
  • adj. (linguistics) Voiced; sonant.
  • adj. (linguistics, rare) voiceless.
  • adj. (linguistics, Slavic languages) palatalized.
  • adj. (slang) Lacking strength or resolve, wimpy.
  • adj. (of water) Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
  • adj. (Britain, colloquial) Foolish.
  • adj. (physics) Of a ferromagnetic material; a material that becomes essentially non magnetic when an external…
  • adj. (of a person) Physically or emotionally weak.
  • adj. Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action.
  • adj. (Britain, of a man) Effeminate.
  • adj. Agreeable to the senses.
  • adj. Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.
  • interj. (archaic) Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.
  • adv. (obsolete) Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.
  • n. A soft or foolish person; an idiot.

tame

  • adj. Not or no longer wild; domesticated.
  • adj. (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact.
  • adj. Not exciting.
  • adj. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
  • adj. (mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
  • v. (transitive) to make something tame.
  • v. (intransitive) to become tame.
  • v. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute;…

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