Definitions of subdued

1.   restrained in style or quality; " a little masterpiece of low- keyed eloquence"

2.   Conquered; overpowered; crushed; submissive; mild.

3.   in a softened tone; " hushed voices"; " muted trumpets"; " a subdued whisper"; " a quiet reprimand"

4.   quieted and brought under control; " children were subdued and silent"

5.   of Subdue

6.   Softened.

7.   lacking in light; not bright or harsh; " a dim light beside the bed"; " subdued lights and soft music"

8.   overpowered and subjugated as by military force

9.   Not glaring in color; soft in tone.

Antonyms for subdued

fierce, proud, bold, ambitious, pushy, bubbly, fearful, meretricious, pizzazzy, ghastly, Squawking, fussy, bumptious, noisy, freestanding, unbroken, effervescent, arresting, cavalier, dramatic, disdainful, emphatic, obtrusive, exuberant, frantic, loud, Vociferating, stagy, masterful, harsh, huffish, militant, tasteless, clamorous, noticeable, ferocious, flamboyant, prideful, frenetic, untamed, imperious, frilly, feverish, frolicsome, garish, razzle-dazzle, independent, enterprising, gilded, grabby, chesty, conspicuous, superior, hellacious, raucous, feral, robustious, unrestrained, Kenspeckle, yowling, frightful, sovereign, obstreperous, deep, eye-catching, grotesque, busy, peremptory, toplofty, protrusive, ornate, delirious, brilliant, vulgar, free, interfering, bedizened, jazzy, Presuming, vociferous, vicious, self-asserting, sniffy, nosy, buoyant, arrogant, assumptive, pretentious, pushing, showy, lofty, blistering, meddlesome, theatrical, stiff-necked, unsubdued, heavy-duty, presumptuous, fearsome, melodramatic, prominent, important, flashy, heavy, huffy, inelegant, jarring, gingerbready, glitzy, hard, exquisite, bodacious, self-governed, swank, tawdry, wilding, terrible, dreadful, furious, rabid, remarkable, catchy, assertive, haughty, frolic, gingerbread, vivacious, Caterwauling, baroque, autonomous, clamant, yawping, overwrought, striking, grating, flaring, undomesticated, go-getting, snoopy, fancy, hammy, rollicking, graceless, frenzied, self-governing, crank, marked, meddling, prying, florid, supercilious, boisterous, mad, aggressive, acute, roisterous, blatant, profound, unaesthetic, tacky, gaudy, trashy, snazzy, ostentatious, rococo, overdone, wild, savage, gingerbreaded, light, Gamesome, lordly, hell raising, pompous, rambunctious, bright, intrusive, commanding, vehement, in-your-face, overdecorated, explosive, intruding, officious, excruciating, self-assertive, keen, splashy, intensive, violent, intense, bouncy, Vociferant, pronounced, overweening.

Quotes of subdued

1. Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control. – Barbara Amiel

2. Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order. – Samuel Butler

3. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. – Washington Irving

4. Some Kentucky fans are a little more subdued – Ashley Judd

5. The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued – Thomas Kuhn

6. Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China. – Nick Lampson

7. Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued – Jean Rostand

8. No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

9. A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued and neither party loser. – William Shakespeare

10. Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form. – Allen Tate

11. There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny. – Edith Wharton

12. And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color. – Beatrice Wood

Usage examples for subdued

1. “ The landlady's face was grave, the landlady's manner was subdued ” – Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins

2. “ We are a subdued sort of family, mother. ” – A Country Gentleman and his Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

3. “ There was earnest entreaty in her voice, but she had subdued her agitation. ” – The Obstacle Race by Ethel M. Dell

4. “ He couldn't mean- oh, no, he's too calm and subdued for that. ” – The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn

5. “ Mount, in a very subdued voice, asked permission to present me, and the gentleman bowed, saying he knew my name from hearing of my father. ” – Cardigan by Robert W. Chambers

6. “ " Mr. Breen says come up, ma'am," she said in a subdued voice. ” – Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero by F. Hopkinson Smith

7. “ In a few moments Spotted Deer again caught the low, ominous murmur of subdued voices. ” – Spotted Deer by Elmer Gregor

8. “ We looked significantly at one another, continuing our subdued talk. ” – The White Peacock by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

9. “ Edna had evidently been ashamed of her outburst of temper on the previous evening, for she came down on Sunday morning looking a little pale and subdued and very gentle in her manner to her mother and Bessie. ” – Our Bessie by Rosa Nouchette Carey

10. “ The old farmer was gradually persuaded to this course, though he grumbled all the way there that I ought to be " locked up," while the children, thoroughly subdued walked in silence behind us. ” – The Mysterious Shin Shira by George Edward Farrow

11. “ Barney's excitement became intense in sympathy with the subdued excitement of the woman whom he could not as yet see. ” – The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs

12. “ As long as they deal only with the tribes thoroughly subdued the Trinobantes, the Cantii, the Be1gae, and the Dumnonii, all may be quiet; they dare not move. ” – Beric the Briton A Story of the Roman Invasion by G. A. Henty

13. “ The face of the younger man worked with subdued excitement. ” – Denzil Quarrier by George Gissing

14. “ The previous conversation had been in subdued tones, but her last remark must have been audible over half the gymnasium. ” – The Head Girl at the Gables by Angela Brazil

15. “ Then: " Yes, sir," in a subdued whisper. ” – Gunman's Reckoning by Max Brand

16. “ Her mother was subdued ” – Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

17. “ The old man shook his head sadly and answered in a subdued tone: I stood by when Herr Rojanow questioned him in the hall. ” – The Northern Light by E. Werner

18. “ For the first few days no great alarm was felt, and the pain seemed to in some measure subdued ” – Missionary Work Among The Ojebway Indians by Edward Francis Wilson

19. “ Him then he subdued while eagerly rushing on. ” – The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Homer

20. “ He was subdued was Jakie, and his soft, brown eyes were humble whenever they met the eyes of Happy Jack. ” – The Happy Family by Bertha Muzzy Bower

Rhymes for subdued

• booed, brewed, brood, chewed, clued, crude, cude, cued, debuted, delude, denude, dude, elude, endued, ensued, eschewed, exclude, extrude, exude, feud, food, glued, hewed, hued, imbued, include, intrude, jude, lewd, mahmood, mahmoud, mahmud, masoud, mewed, mood, nonfood, obtrude, preclude, protrude, prude, pursued, queued, renewed, reviewed, rood, rude, ruud, screwed, seclude, shampooed, shoed, shooed, shrewd, skewed, spewed, stewed, sued, tattooed, trude, trued, ude, unglued, viewed, who'd, wooed, you'd;
• accrued, allude, canoed, collude, conclude, construed;
• misconstrued;