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SUBDUED definition: 1. If a colour or light is subdued, it is not very bright: 2. If a noise is subdued, it is not…. Learn more.
The meaning of SUBDUED is lacking in vitality, intensity, or strength. How to use subdued in a sentence.
to reduce the force of something, or to prevent something from existing or developing: The fire burned for eight hours before the fire crews could subdue it. He criticized the school for trying to subdue individual expression. to bring a person or group under control by using force:
adjective. quiet; inhibited; repressed; controlled: After the argument he was much more subdued. lowered in intensity or strength; reduced in fullness of tone, as a color or voice; muted: subdued light; wallpaper in subdued greens.
The adjective subdued refers to something, like a sound, that has a lowered intensity. Your loud conversation with a friend in the back of the classroom is likely to become subdued when the teacher passes out the exams.
Definition of subdued adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
to bring under mental or emotional control, as by persuasion or intimidation; render submissive. Synonyms: suppress, discipline, break, tame. to repress (feelings, impulses, etc.). Synonyms: suppress. Antonyms: arouse, awaken. to bring (land) under cultivation: to subdue the wilderness.
