repressed

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective repressed has 1 sense

  • repressed(s = adj.all) pent-up - characterized by or showing the suppression of impulses or emotions; "her severe upbringing had left her inhibited"; "a very inhibited young man, anxious and ill at ease"; "their reactions were partly the product of pent-up emotions"; "repressed rage turned his face scarlet"

THESAURUS

repressed

Lethean, Olympian, absentminded, aloof, amnestic, backward, bashful, blank, blocked, chilled, chilly, cold, constrained, converted, cool, crushed, detached, discreet, distant, expressionless, forbidding, forgetful, forgetting, frigid, frosty, guarded, heedless, icy, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, inclined to forget, introverted, modest, oblivious, offish, quashed, quelled, remote, removed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, shrinking, smashed, smothered, squashed, squelched, standoff, standoffish, stifled, subdued, suffocated, suppressed, unaffable, unapproachable, uncongenial, undemonstrative, unexpansive, ungenial, unmindful, withdrawn

ROGET THESAURUS

repressed

Dissuasion

N dissuasion, dehortation, expostulation, remonstrance, deprecation, discouragement, damper, wet blanket, disillusionment, disenchantment, cohibition, curb, check, reluctance, contraindication, dissuading, dissuasive, dehortatory, expostulatory, monitive, monitory, dissuaded, admonitory, uninduced &c (induce), unpersuadable, averse, repugnant, repressed.


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