inhibited

Thân thiện

She felt inhibited and couldn't speak in front of the large audience.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Held back, restrained, or prevented: Describes a person, behavior, or process that is suppressed, constrained, or not allowed to be expressed freely or naturally.
   • Psychologically or socially constrained: Often refers to a person who is unable to act, feel, or express themselves spontaneously due to shyness, self-consciousness, or the internalization of social rules.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • She felt too inhibited to dance in front of the crowd. (Her shyness restrained her from dancing.)
  • The strict upbringing left him emotionally inhibited. (His upbringing prevented him from expressing emotions freely.)
  • In certain conditions, previously inhibited conditioned reactions can reappear. (Reactions that were once suppressed can re-emerge.)

Advanced Usage

• "to feel inhibited": to experience a sense of restraint or inability to act freely.
  • He feels inhibited about discussing his personal life at work.
• "socially inhibited": describes a person who is reserved or restrained in social interactions.
  • The socially inhibited child preferred reading to playing with others.

Variants and Related Words

• Inhibit (verb): to hinder, restrain, or prevent an action or process.
  • Fear can inhibit people from taking risks.
• Inhibition (noun): a feeling that makes one self-conscious and unable to act in a relaxed and natural way; or the action of inhibiting.
  • He has no inhibitions about speaking his mind.
• Uninhibited (adjective): not inhibited; expressing feelings or thoughts freely.
  • She gave an uninhibited laugh.

Synonyms

• Restrained: held back, kept under control.
• Repressed: restrained, suppressed, especially feelings or desires.
• Reserved: slow to reveal emotions or opinions.
• Constrained: appearing forced or unnatural.

Antonyms

• Uninhibited: free and natural, not restrained.
• Spontaneous: performed or occurring as a result of a sudden impulse.
• Expressive: effectively conveying thought or feeling.

Related Phrases

• Inhibited by something: prevented or held back due to a specific factor.
  • His creativity was inhibited by the strict rules.
• Loss of inhibition: a decrease in the normal restraints on behavior.
  • Alcohol can cause a loss of inhibition.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. held back or restrained or prevented
   • in certain conditions previously inhibited conditioned reactions can reappear