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Grammar : Adj
Spell : in-hib-i-tid
Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈhɪb ɪ tɪd

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Définition of inhibited

Origin :
  • early 15c., "to forbid, prohibit," back-formation from inhibition or else from Latin inhibitus, past participle of inhibere "to hold in, hold back, keep back" (see inhibition). Psychological sense (1876) is from earlier, softened meaning of "restrain, check, hinder" (1530s). Related: Inhibited; inhibiting.
  • adj shy
Example sentences :
  • I published my sermon and sent it to the bishop, and he inhibited me!
  • Extract from : « Paul Gosslett's Confessions in Love, Law, and The Civil Service » by Charles James Lever
  • The suggestion of art has inhibited in us every contrary idea.
  • Extract from : « Psychotherapy » by Hugo Mnsterberg
  • It was only the psychophysical pain in the brain which had been inhibited.
  • Extract from : « Psychotherapy » by Hugo Mnsterberg
  • Any instincts of the family man which might once have reigned in him had long since been inhibited.
  • Extract from : « Jewel » by Clara Louise Burnham
  • More than this, these contractions cannot usually be inhibited.
  • Extract from : « The Psychology of Singing » by David C. Taylor
  • I did say, "Don't be inhibited, do what you think you should."
  • Extract from : « Warren Commission (3 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15) » by The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
  • Greater increase or decrease, inhibited them and produced albinos.
  • Extract from : « Being Well-Born » by Michael F. Guyer
  • The remedies are then supposed to have aborted or to have inhibited the development of the cold.
  • Extract from : « Psychotherapy » by James J. Walsh
  • By hypothesis, however, the response is inhibited, and it is this inhibition which calls forth the perception of the object.
  • Extract from : « Creative Intelligence » by John Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen
  • How at critical moments he always said the thing that hurt her or inhibited her!
  • Extract from : « The Call of the Canyon » by Zane Grey

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