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.