Inhibited
menghalang
definition
verb
cold inhibits plant growth
hinder, restrain, or prevent (an action or process).
his mother's strictures would always inhibit him
make (someone) self-conscious and unable to act in a relaxed and natural way.
adjective
I could never appear nude, I'm far too inhibited
unable to act in a relaxed and natural way because of self-consciousness or mental restraint.
example
Too much criticism can throw them off balance and make them 'inhibited' or self-conscious.
Freud's 'inhibited' , controlled nature extended to his autobiography, which concentrates almost entirely upon the development of psychoanalysis and tells us next to nothing about his personal life.
Facing new situations is thought to result in gradual desensitization for the 'inhibited' child, just as facing a feared stimulus does in the treatment of phobias.
I felt I was very 'inhibited' and shy and insecure in many ways.
Those who are dissatisfied tend to be self-conscious, 'inhibited' and less effective either at work or socially.
Now I like to think I sensed some connection between the artful potency of the image and the emotion that normally 'inhibited' people were displaying all around me.
These results are consistent with retrospective reports of infant irritability, insomnia, and colic among 'inhibited' children.
She explained how she was very 'inhibited' and self conscious about her accent when she first arrived in this country.
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