English

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Etymology

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inhibitive +‎ -ly

Adverb

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inhibitively (comparative more inhibitively, superlative most inhibitively)

  1. So as to inhibit.
    • 2015 October 21, Susan Burton, “Terry Gross and the Art of Opening Up”, in New York Times[1]:
      During college Gross had shed some of her innate reserve, but ‘‘I still was just inhibitively shy,’’ she said.