inhibitively

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adverb

So as to inhibit.

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Meanings

adverbinhibitively (comparative more inhibitively, superlative most inhibitively)

comparative more inhibitively · superlative most inhibitively

  1. So as to inhibit.

    During college Gross had shed some of her innate reserve, but ‘‘I still was just inhibitively shy,’’ she said.

    2015 October 21, Susan Burton, “Terry Gross and the Art of Opening Up”, in New York Times

Origin

From inhibitive + -ly.

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APA

inhibitively. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inhibitively

MLA

“inhibitively.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inhibitively. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “inhibitively,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inhibitively.

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