inhibited
Sayin-HIB-i-tid/ɪnˈhɪbɪtɪd/
- 1Shy and quiet, keeping your feelings hidden instead of showing them openly.
Like a turtle pulling into its shell whenever other people come near.
He felt too inhibited to dance in front of the crowd.
Some children are inhibited around strangers but lively at home.
Similarreserved, shy, self-conscious, repressed, restrained
Oppositeuninhibited, outgoing, open, expressive
- 2Past tense of inhibit. Use this form for something that was already held back or slowed down.
The cold weather inhibited the plant's growth all through spring.
Fear inhibited her from speaking up at the meeting.
Note
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inhibited is a form of inhibit
inhibit, verb: To hold something back or stop it from happening fully. Full entry
- Forms
- inhibitinhibits he/she/itinhibiting -ing forminhibited past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- inhibit → inhibited: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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