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.
Conquered; overpowered; crushed; submissive; mild.
Adjective S.
lacking in light; not bright or harsh; "a dim light beside the bed"; "subdued lights and soft music"
Adjective S.
in a softened tone; "hushed voices"; "muted trumpets"; "a subdued whisper"; "a quiet reprimand"
Adjective S.
restrained in style or quality; "a little masterpiece of low-keyed eloquence"
Adjective S.
quieted and brought under control; "children were subdued and silent"
imp. & p. p.
of Subdue
a.
Conquered; overpowered; crushed; submissive; mild.
a.
Not glaring in color; soft in tone.
Subdued
Conquered; overpowered; crushed; submissive; mild.
Usage Examples
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
Dramatic experience is not logical it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
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Other Usage ExamplesLittle minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.
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.
A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?
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