Inhibited vs Reluctant - What's the difference?
inhibited | reluctant |
(inhibit)
Opposing; offering resistance (to).
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , II.108:
* 2008 , Kern Alexander et al., The World Trade Organization and Trade in Services , p. 222:
Not wanting to take some action; unwilling.
As a verb inhibited
is (inhibit).As an adjective reluctant is
opposing; offering resistance (to).inhibited
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Verb
(head)Derived terms
* inhibitedly * inhibitednessinhibit
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Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* disinhibit * disinhibition * inhibitionreluctant
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Adjective
(en adjective)- There, breathless, with his digging nails he clung / Fast to the sand, lest the returning wave, / From whose reluctant roar his life he wrung, / Should suck him back to her insatiate grave [...].
- They are reluctant to the inclusion of a necessity test, especially of a horizontal nature, and emphasize, instead, the importance of procedural disciplines [...].
- She was reluctant to lend him the money