1. Restrained, self-conscious, or unable to express oneself freely
   "She felt inhibited speaking in front of large groups"
    
2. Prevented or slowed from normal function or development
   "The inhibited enzyme showed reduced activity"

1. Prohibit, forbid, or prevent from doing something
   "Contact between the young was inhibited by strict social customs"
    
2. (chemistry) limit, block, or decrease the action or function of
   "inhibit the action of the enzyme"; "inhibit the rate of a chemical reaction"
    
3. Consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behaviour
   "She had to inhibit her anger during the meeting";
   - bottle up, suppress
    
4. Make (someone) self-conscious and as a result unable to act naturally
   "his father's cold and distant demeanour inhibited him emotionally"

See also: pent-up, repressed, reserved, restrained, smothered, stifled, strangled, suppressed

Type of: discomfit, discompose, disconcert, entrammel [literary], fetter [literary], forbid, foreclose, forestall, hinder, hold back, impede, keep, keep back, preclude, prevent, restrain, trammel [literary], untune [rare], upset

Antonym: uninhibited

Encyclopedia: Inhibit