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repressive
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective repressive has 1 sense
- repressive(s = adj.all) inhibitory, repressing - restrictive of action; "a repressive regime"; "an overly strict and inhibiting discipline" Derived form verb repress1
CIDE DICTIONARY
repressive, a. [Cf. F. répressif. LL. repressivus.].
Having power, or tending, to repress; as, repressive acts or measures. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
repressive
absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, bossy, brutal, choking, constraining, constrictive, contrary, counterproductive, crosswise, despotic, dictatorial, domineering, exclusive, feudal, forbidding, grinding, high-handed, hindering, hindersome, imperative, imperial, imperious, in the way, inhibiting, inhibitive, inhibitory, interdictive, interdictory, interrupting, interruptive, lordly, magisterial, magistral, masterful, monocratic, obstructing, obstructive, obstruent, occlusive, oppressive, overbearing, overruling, peremptory, preclusive, preventive, prohibiting, prohibitive, prohibitory, proscriptive, restraining, restrictive, severe, stifling, strangling, strict, stultifying, suppressive, totalitarian, troublesome, tyrannical, tyrannous
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