inhibitively

English

Etymology

From inhibitive +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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.
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