repressive

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Adjective
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re=pres=sive

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective repressive has 1 sense

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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