inhibitory.

Serving to suppress or limit an action, response, or process.

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Words that belong together

• inhibitory control
• inhibitory effect

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Fatigue reduced inhibitory control during the task.

Usage notes

Primary category: psychology / human behavior. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: character, behavior. Commonness: moderately common.