overinhibited

comparative more overinhibited · superlative most overinhibited

1. human sciencesExcessively inhibited.

   Overinhibited children often benefit cathartically from dramatic play.

   1968, Richard Courtney, Play, drama and thought

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   Twenty-five overinhibited children and twenty-five unsocialized aggressive children were followed up in the spring of 1944.

   1946, Lester Eugene Hewitt, Richard Leos Jenkins, Fundamental patterns of maladjustment: the dynamics of their origin