All 5 Uses
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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- Perhaps it was for similar reasons that an elegant older woman with beautiful silvery hair lived there but did not participate in the uninhibited life of the naked women, who professed sacramental respect for her.†
Chpt 2 *uninhibited = acting naturally without being overly self-consciousstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uninhibited means not and reverses the meaning of inhibited. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- From time to time, when they came home from a wild fiesta, the nostalgia crouching behind the door would knock them down with one blow of its paw, and then there would be a marvelous explosion in which everything was the way it used to be and for five minutes they were once again the uninhibited lovers of their honeymoon.†
Chpt 4
- He was less inhibited than on the previous visit, but she was more so, because she could not understand the reason for the unexpected examination if he himself had said that he would not come back unless they called him because of some change.†
Chpt 3
- At last she decided to leave, not even knowing why or to what purpose, out of sheer fury, and he, inhibited by his sense of guilt, had not been able to dissuade her.†
Chpt 5
- That was all she said, inhibited perhaps by the resonance of her voice in the darkness, for the custom of embellishing silent films with piano accompaniment had not yet been established here, and in the darkened enclosure all that one could hear was the projector murmuring like rain.†
Chpt 5
Definitions:
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(1)
(inhibit as in: inhibited the growth of...) to limit the activity of someone or something
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(2)
(inhibited as in: she is shy and inhibited) unable to act naturally due to being overly self-conscious
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)