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- Earthy and uninhibited and always cheerful about it and willing to learn.†
Chpt 12uninhibited = 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.
- She didn't have to guess what would please a man; she knew more about it than I did, from "experience"—and was explosively uninhibited about sharing her unique knowledge.†
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Definitions:
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(inhibit as in: inhibited the growth of...) to limit the activity of someone or something
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(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)