controlled

Inhibited or restrained in one's words and actions.

Adjective

  1. Inhibited or restrained in one's words and actions.
  2. Subjected to regulation or direction.
  3. Resulting from a comparison with control samples; including a comparison (control) group. (describing clinical trials)
    • A randomized, controlled trial (RCT).
    • Attempto Controlled English (ACE).
  4. Under the control of the specified entity.
    • The history of the Anglo-Indian Community in British-controlled India is one of many ups and downs, of vicissitudes and prosperity, of security and insecurity. - 1973, Noel Pitts Gist, Roy Dean Wright, Marginality and...

Forms

more controlled most controlled

Hyponyms

climate-controlled

Derived

autocontrolled computer-controlled timing controlled-access highway controlled atmosphere controlled burn controlled chaos controlled drug controlled explosion controlled flight into terrain controlledly controlledness controlled opposition controlled-release controlled substance controlled variable time controlled vocabulary enantiocontrolled government-owned and controlled corporation hypercontrolled microcontrolled myocontrolled neurocontrolled non-controlled noncontrolled

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of control
  2. simple past and past participle of controll

Derived

remote-controlled