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Inhibitory   /ɪnhˈɪbətˌɔri/   Listen
Inhibitory

adjective
1.
Restrictive of action.  Synonyms: repressing, repressive.  "An overly strict and inhibiting discipline"






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"Inhibitory" Quotes from Famous Books



... seated, both. 'Tis as cheap sitting as standing. Mr Mulligan accepted of the invitation and, expatiating upon his design, told his hearers that he had been led into this thought by a consideration of the causes of sterility, both the inhibitory and the prohibitory, whether the inhibition in its turn were due to conjugal vexations or to a parsimony of the balance as well as whether the prohibition proceeded from defects congenital or from proclivities acquired. It grieved him plaguily, he said, to see the nuptial couch defrauded of its ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce

... moving and pausing like processions of huge turtles up and down the street; obeying the gesture of the mid-stream policemen where they stand at the successive crossings to stay them, and floating with the coming and going tides as he drops his inhibitory hand and speeds them in the continuous current. That is, of course, something you get in greater quantity, though not such intense quality, in a London 'block,' but there is something more fluent, more mercurially impatient, in a New York street jam, which our nerves more vividly partake. ...
— Imaginary Interviews • W. D. Howells



Words linked to "Inhibitory" :   inhibit, restrictive, repressing, repressive



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