| 单词 | repressive |
| 释义 | repressive (once / 5976 pages) adj Repressive things keep people from doing or saying what they want. Repressive controls on the press don't allow journalists to freely report the news. It's almost always a government, or a political or social system, that acts in a repressive way. When police officers don't let citizens videotape arrests, or a society doesn't allow girls to attend school, it's repressive. Someone growing up in a repressive family might feel cautious about saying or doing the wrong things. The adjective repressive comes from the Latin root repressus, "held back or curbed," and also "checked or restrained." WORD FAMILYrepressive: repressively+/repress: repressed, represser, represses, repressing, repression, repressive/repressed: repressedly, unrepressed/represser: repressers/repressing: repressingly/repression: repressions USAGE EXAMPLESIf the readout of your model is that North Carolina is as repressive as Cuba, maybe the problem is your model rather than North Carolina. Wall Street Journal(Dec 30, 2016) Both used their fame to critique fame—a repressive system that kept their real selves from the world. Time(Dec 28, 2016) The true danger of human nature is to idealize anything that’s already happened, be it the repressive 1950s or fancy-free Clinton era. The Guardian(Dec 28, 2016) adj restrictive of action a repressive regime Syn inhibitory, repressing restrictive serving to restrict |
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