| 单词 | inhibited |
| 释义 | inhibited (once / 8008 pages) adj If something is inhibited it's held back or kept from doing something. An inhibited infection is kept from spreading, possibly by antibiotics. We often use the word inhibited to describe someone’s behavior, especially if that person is self-conscious about doing something, but it also describes the simple fact of being restrained. If you washed your pants in hot water and they shrank and you could just barely squeeze them on, your movement would be inhibited. The Latin root of inhibited is inhibere, "to hold in or hold back." WORD FAMILYinhibited: uninhibited+/inhibit: inhibited, inhibiting, inhibition, inhibitor, inhibitory, inhibits/inhibition: inhibitions/inhibitor: inhibitors/uninhibited: uninhibitedly USAGE EXAMPLESMuch of “Silence” seems inhibited by Scorsese’s devotion to the subject, as if it risked corruption by the intervention of cinematic hedonism. The New Yorker(Dec 27, 2016) The East Germans were less inhibited: it was now the West German media that became the capitalist and fascist Lügenpresse. Economist(Nov 24, 2016) Maeve’s power over men existed before her self-awareness, but now that she’s given herself an upgrade, she’s smarter and less inhibited than her handlers. New York Times(Nov 13, 2016) adj held back or restrained or prevented in certain conditions previously inhibited conditioned reactions can reappear Syn|Ant pent-up, repressed characterized by or showing the suppression of impulses or emotions smothered, stifled, strangled, suppressedheld in check with difficulty reservedmarked by self-restraint and reticence restrainedunder restraint uninhibited not inhibited or restrained abandonedfree from constraint earthyhearty and lusty unrepressednot repressed unsuppressedgiven vent to unreservednot cautious or reticent unrestrainednot subject to restraint |
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