单词 | uninhibited |
释义 | uninhibitedadj. Not inhibited; unrestrained. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [adjective] > in action, conduct, or habit freec1300 unbridledc1374 riotous?1456 liberala1500 unrestrained1531 libertine1593 relaxed1623 long-waisted1647 self-abandoning1817 laissez-aller1818 self-abandoned1833 uninhibited1880 un-Victorian1908 leggo1943 zizzy1966 loose1968 1880 W. James Feeling of Effort 24 The motor idea,..uninhibited by remote associations,..discharges by the preappointed mechanism into the right muscles. 1929 B. Russell Marriage & Morals x. 111 I think that uninhibited civilised people, whether men or women, are generally polygamous in their instincts. 1949 M. Mead Male & Female xii. 263 ‘Why,’ asks the uninhibited American child of 1949, ‘does no one ever go to the bathroom in a book?’ 1956 P. H. Johnson Last Resort xlv. 293 He coughed once or twice, blew his nose with an uninhibited trumpeting. 1971 S. Hill Strange Meeting ii. 147 Hilliard stood, pitying them their lack of privacy..yet envying them too, their carefully ordered life and clear uninhibited friendships and enmities. 1980 A. N. Wilson Healing Art xvi. 194 In the States..he was being, according to his own lights, uninhibited. Derivatives uninˈhibitedly adv. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [adverb] unredlya1200 outrightc1300 largec1405 largelya1450 liberallya1500 frankly1541 unrestrainedly1635 ramping1807 outrightly1914 balls-out1959 uninhibitedly1959 1959 Times 10 Jan. 7/6 An informal folk concert in which the audience uninhibitedly join. 1966 L. Ó Broin Dublin Castle & 1916 Rising vi. 47 Birrell was accustomed to express himself thus uninhibitedly to Nathan about personalities. 1976 New Society 22 Jan. 147/1 If, as a child, things don't go your way and you're miserable, you can make the point by screaming, kicking or flinging your food on the floor. Adolescents and adults cannot show their unhappiness so uninhibitedly. Draft additions 1993 uninˈhibitedness n. freedom from inhibitions. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [noun] freedomOE freenesslOE libertya1393 licence?a1400 wilfulnessc1460 immunity1549 latitude1605 voluntariness1612 liberum arbitrium1642 free agencya1646 libertinism1649 unrestrainedness1698 unrestraint1755 relaxity1759 head1804 laissez-aller1818 unrestrictedness1825 uninhibitedness1947 1947 C. Amory Proper Bostonians iii. 76 John Murray himself set the pattern for the uninhibitedness of his branch of the Family when, a man in his eighties and in the dead of winter, he used to drive..in an open sleigh. 1990 Guardian 28 June 39/2 This experience led Wright to value vocalised intonation on the horn, emotional uninhibitedness, and an emphasis on timbre and beat over structural sophistication. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1880 |
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