Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Inhibitory

Inhibitory , adjective

[Late Latin inhibitorius: compare French inhibitoire.]

Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center.
I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. — Lamb
Collocations (1)
Inhibitory nerves (Physiology) , those nerves which modify, inhibit, or suppress a motor or secretory act already in progress.