Usually means: Restrained or held back behaviorally.
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  1. inhibited: Merriam-Webster
  2. inhibited: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inhibited: Collins English Dictionary
  4. inhibited: Vocabulary.com
  5. Inhibited, inhibited: Wordnik
  6. inhibited: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. inhibited: Wiktionary
  8. inhibited: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Inhibited, inhibited: Dictionary.com
  10. inhibited: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Inhibited: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. inhibited: Rhymezone
  13. inhibited: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. inhibited: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. inhibited: FreeDictionary.org
  16. inhibited: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. inhibited: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. inhibited: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. inhibited: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. inhibited: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. inhibited: Medical dictionary

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▸ adjective:  (of a person) Reserved or repressed, prone to quiet, inexpressive behavior.

Similar:
pent-up, stifled, repressed, smothered, strangled, suppressed, quiet, low-key, inexpressive, sedate, more...

Opposite:
unrestrained, free, expressive, uninhibited, outgoing

Types:
shy, introverted, reserved, guarded, withdrawn, timid, self-conscious, anxious, more...

Phrases:
inhibited sexual desire, non air inhibited resin, be inhibited, held back restrained inhibited, inhibited on drugs, more...

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Similar:
pent-up, stifled, repressed, smothered, strangled, suppressed, quiet, low-key, inexpressive, sedate, more...

Opposite:
unrestrained, free, expressive, uninhibited, outgoing

Types:
shy, introverted, reserved, guarded, withdrawn, timid, self-conscious, anxious, more...

Phrases:
inhibited sexual desire, non air inhibited resin, be inhibited, held back restrained inhibited, inhibited on drugs, inhibited on drugs and alcohol, opposite of inhibited, more...

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     taupe,     mauve,     olive, more...



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