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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, withdrawnROGET 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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