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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Free from inhibition; unrestrained or unselfconscious.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not inhibited, in any sense of that word.

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  • adjective Not inhibited; having no inhibitions.

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  • adjective not inhibited or restrained

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un- +‎ inhibited

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Examples

  • While most of the children who were classified as uninhibited turned out to be garden-variety kids—comfortable joining a new classroom, trying a new activity, or meeting new people—some of those easygoing kids were extremely uninhibited.

    Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

  • "Because Family behavior on the private floors can best be described as uninhibited, particularly in the evening," Cortin said.

    The Alembic Plot A Terran Empire novel Ann Wilson

  • He speaks his mind -- at times at his own peril -- sometimes uninhibited, which is a quality Obama has said he'd value in any adviser, and would ensure the new president doesn't surround himself by an army of yes men.

    ModerateVoters.org 2008

  • It's that Heinlein implies that that "uninhibited" nature is the way that women SHOULD be.

    The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2010

  • In en email to the Observer, Michael Harrison, publisher and editor of Talkers Magazine, called talk radio "a far more fertile medium for the kind of uninhibited, crusading opinion that has marked Lou Dobbs 'style in the past year and a half."

    Speedy CNN Finds a Replacement for Dobbs 2009

  • In en email to the Observer, Michael Harrison, publisher and editor of Talkers Magazine, called talk radio "a far more fertile medium for the kind of uninhibited, crusading opinion that has marked Lou Dobbs 'style in the past year and a half."

    Speedy CNN Finds a Replacement for Dobbs 2009

  • Does Mrs. Clinton's "young friend" really not realize that unplugged in this context means "without amplification" and not "uninhibited"?

    Damsel in Distress 2008

  • Henry Adams was among the regulars at the White House table who listened to "uninhibited" Roosevelt monologues.

    The Performer Baker, Russell 2002

  • The world recognizes that there is a problem with this kind of uninhibited greed.

    Seeing the Forest 2009

  • The world recognizes that there is a problem with this kind of uninhibited greed.

    Seeing the Forest 2009

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  • uninhibited – without inhibition; esp., free from the usual social or psychological restraints, as in behavior

    July 14, 2008