Usually means: Restricting or preventing progress or action.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. inhibitive: Merriam-Webster
  2. inhibitive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inhibitive: Collins English Dictionary
  4. inhibitive: Wordnik
  5. inhibitive: Wiktionary
  6. inhibitive: Dictionary.com
  7. inhibitive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inhibitive: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. inhibitive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. inhibitive: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (inhibitive)

▸ adjective:  that inhibits

Similar:
inhibitatory, disinhibitory, coinhibitory, myoinhibiting, myoinhibitory, secretoinhibitory, sympathoinhibitory, antisecretory, subinhibitory, antiepithelial, more...

Opposite:
uninhibited, permissive, free, liberal, open

Types:
reticent, unwilling, unenthusiastic, apathetic, indifferent, pessimistic, negative, more...

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Similar:
inhibitatory, disinhibitory, coinhibitory, myoinhibiting, myoinhibitory, secretoinhibitory, sympathoinhibitory, antisecretory, subinhibitory, antiepithelial, more...

Opposite:
uninhibited, permissive, free, liberal, open

Types:
reticent, unwilling, unenthusiastic, apathetic, indifferent, pessimistic, negative, more...



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