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inhibitively

inhibitively adverb: so as to inhibit.

Adverb

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

Forms of inhibitively

comparativemore inhibitively
superlativemost inhibitively

Origin of inhibitively

From inhibitive + -ly.

Questions about inhibitively

What does inhibitively mean?
Inhibitively means so as to inhibit.
What part of speech is inhibitively?
Inhibitively is an adverb.

Words near inhibitively in the dictionary

  1. inhibitingly
  2. inhibition
  3. inhibitionless
  4. inhibitions
  5. inhibitive
  6. inhibitively
  7. inhibitor
  8. inhibitorily
  9. inhibitors
  10. inhibitory
  11. inhibitory control

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