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overinhibited

overinhibited adjective: excessively inhibited.

Adjective

overinhibited (comparative more overinhibited, superlative most overinhibited)

  1. Excessively inhibited.
    • 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
    • Overinhibited children often benefit cathartically from dramatic play.1968, Richard Courtney, Play, drama and thought

Forms of overinhibited

comparativemore overinhibited
superlativemost overinhibited

Origin of overinhibited

From over- + inhibited.

Questions about overinhibited

What does overinhibited mean?
Overinhibited means excessively inhibited.
What part of speech is overinhibited?
Overinhibited is an adjective.

Words near overinhibited in the dictionary

  1. overingestions
  2. overingests
  3. Overington
  4. overinhabited
  5. overinhalation
  6. overinhibited
  7. overinhibition
  8. overinitiate
  9. overinitiated
  10. overinitiates
  11. overinitiating

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