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[ ri-pres-iv ] / rɪˈprɛs ɪv / SEE SYNONYMS FOR repressive ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivetending or serving to repress: repressive laws. Origin of repressive1375–1425; late Middle English <Medieval Latin repressīvus<Latin repress(us) (see repress) + -īvus-ive OTHER WORDS FROM repressivere·pres·sive·ly, adverbre·pres·sive·ness, nounnon·re·pres·sive, adjectiveun·re·pres·sive, adjective un·re·pres·sive·ly, adverbun·re·pres·sive·ness, noun Words nearby repressiverepress, repressed, represser, repressible enzyme, repression, repressive, repressor, repressor gene, reprieval, reprieve, reprimand Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for repressiveA society that was exclusive and repressive is now freer and more open. The Daily Beast’s Best Longreads, Sept 8-14|John Boot|September 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST What future repressive policies will these killings be used to justify? One Former Hostage Says Negotiate With ISIS, And Pay Ransoms If You Must|Sarah Shourd|September 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST Repressive regimes forced the people here to join parties and causes. On the Ground, Collaborators With ISIS Could Be Its Big Weakness|Christine van den Toorn|August 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST By restricting aid to only registered groups, the State Department is colluding with repressive regimes, fear democracy advocates. Obama’s Budget Fails Democracy Promotion Abroad|Jamie Dettmer|June 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
These tactics are accompanied by other repressive measures—including, increasingly, online media censorship. Why Snowden’s ‘Challenge’ to Putin on Russian Surveillance Doesn’t Matter|Cathy Young|April 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST The secret is, that wherever there is a public demand, no repressive laws will ever prevent trade. The History of Prostitution|William W. Sanger When Gage went out to enforce the repressive acts neither he nor those who sent him thought that his task would be hard. The Political History of England - Vol. X.|William Hunt “There can be no doubt of him, for he was one of the prisoners that got away,” said Captain Carbonel, in a repressive manner. The Carbonels|Charlotte M. Yonge Among all classes men strove in the absence of a repressive power to gain advantages and privileges. Saint George for England|G. A. Henty The repressive measures of Parliament and the landowners only widened the social chasm which parted employer from employed. History of the English People, Volume II (of 8)|John Richard Green
British Dictionary definitions for repressive
adjectiveacting to control, suppress, or restrain subjecting people, a society, etc, to a state of subjugation Derived forms of repressiverepressively, adverbrepressiveness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to repressivecoercive, restrictive, forbidding, governing, suppressive, constraining, prohibiting Medical definitions for repressive
adj.Causing or inclined to cause repression. The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. |