Synonyms of inhibiting

inhibiting

verb

present participle of inhibit

1

as in impeding

to create difficulty for the work or activity of

the cold inhibited her from getting much work done that morning

Synonyms & Similar Words

• impeding
• hampering
• hindering
• obstructing
• embarrassing
• handicapping
• delaying
• disrupting
• stymieing
• restraining
• clogging
• constraining
• interfering (with)
• blocking
• cramping
• encumbering
• fettering
• handcuffing
• shackling
• tying up
• hobbling
• tieing up
• short-circuiting
• thwarting
• holding back
• curbing
• trammelling
• retarding
• tying
• hog-tying
• stifling
• manacling
• binding
• trammeling
• frustrating
• tieing
• retaining
• reining
• checking
• giving a hard time
• cramping one's style
• arresting
• braking
• balking
• holding up
• strangling
• tethering
• sabotaging
• blockading
• barricading
• leashing
• confining
• chaining
• repressing
• derailing
• choking
• suppressing
• baffling
• bogging (down)
• smothering
• roadblocking
• foiling
• haltering
• suffocating
• muzzling
• miring
• stumping
• hedging (in)
• hemming (in)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• facilitating
• helping
• assisting
• aiding
• opening
• clearing
• freeing
• releasing
• liberating
• promoting
• loosening
• encouraging
• smoothing
• unplugging
• unclogging
• furthering
• unstopping
• making way
• untying
• untieing

2

as in controlling

to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression)

laws designed to inhibit the powers of the intelligence organizations

Synonyms & Similar Words

• controlling
• regulating
• curbing
• containing
• keeping
• restraining
• suppressing
• stifling
• measuring
• constraining
• governing
• taming
• holding
• checking
• stopping
• ruling
• interrupting
• pulling in
• bridling
• repressing
• impeding
• hindering
• swallowing
• blocking
• hampering
• reining (in)
• obstructing
• strangling
• arresting
• smothering
• silencing
• choking (back)
• holding back
• squelching
• muffling
• bottling (up)
• sinking
• mincing
• pocketing
• handcuffing
• muzzling
• gagging

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• losing
• loosening
• liberating
• expressing
• unleashing
• venting
• taking out
• loosing
• airing

3

as in dissuading

to steer (a person) from an activity or course of action

a fundamental sense of propriety should have inhibited you from making a drunken spectacle of yourself

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dissuading
• discouraging
• deterring
• diverting
• repelling
• unselling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• encouraging
• persuading
• urging
• inducing
• exhorting
• prodding
• prompting
• goading
• impelling
• egging (on)