subdued

English

Alternative forms

• subdood

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /səbˈdud/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /səbˈdjuːd/
• Rhymes: -uːd
• Hyphenation: sub‧dued

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Adjective

subdued (comparative more subdued, superlative most subdued)

1. Conquered; overpowered; crushed; submissive.

   He is subdued after the disagreement last night.

   • 1603, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act V, scene ii, page 338:

     I pray you in your Letters, / When you ſhall theſe vnluckie deeds relate, / Speake of me, as I am. […] / Of one, whoſe ſubdu'd Eyes, / Albeit un-vsed to the melting moode, / Drops teares as faſt as the Arabian Trees / Their Medicinable gumme.

2. Not glaring in color; soft and light in tone.

   The colour scheme used for this room is subdued.

Translations

Conquered; overpowered; crushed; submissive; mild

• Bulgarian: подтиснат (bg) (podtisnat), подчинен (bg) (podčinen)
• Dutch: beteugeld (nl)
• Finnish: kukistettu (fi), päihitetty, lyöty (fi)
• German: gedämpft (de), bedrückt (de), gehorsam (de), kleinlaut (de), matt (de), verhalten (de), besiegt (de), niedergeschlagen (de), still (de), unterdrückt (de), unterwarfen (de), zurückhaltend (de)
• Hungarian: legyőzött (hu), levert (hu), leigázott (hu), lesújtott (hu)
• Occitan: assubjectit, somés (oc), subjugat, conquistat
• Persian: تصرف شده

Not glaring in color; soft in tone

• Bulgarian: приглушен (bg) (priglušen)
• Dutch: gedempt (nl)
• Finnish: hillitty (fi)
• German: dezent (de), mild (de), sanft (de), weich (de), gedeckt (de), leise (de), matt (de), unterdrückt (de)
• Hungarian: letompított (hu), félhomályos (hu), tompa (hu), halk (hu), szelíd (hu)
• Japanese: 地味 (ja) (jimi)
• Persian: خفیف (fa) (xafif)
• Russian: приглушённый (ru) (priglušónnyj)
• Swedish: dämpad (sv)

Verb

subdued

1. simple past and past participle of subdue

   He subdued the dog yesterday.