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unsubdued

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sub⋅dued

[suhb-dood, -dyood]
–adjective
1. quiet; inhibited; repressed; controlled: After the argument he was much more subdued.
2. lowered in intensity or strength; reduced in fullness of tone, as a color or voice; muted: subdued light; wallpaper in subdued greens.
3. (of land) not marked by any striking features, as mountains or cliffs: a subdued landscape.

Origin:
1595–1605; subdue + -ed 2


sub⋅dued⋅ly, adverb
sub⋅dued⋅ness, noun
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unsubdued

adjective
not brought under control; "the horse remained unsubdued" 
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