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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. restrictive of action;
- Example: "a repressive regime"
- Example: "an overly strict and inhibiting discipline"
[syn: inhibitory, repressive, repressing]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Repressive \Re*press"ive\ (r?-pr?s"?v), a. [Cf. F. r['e]pressif. LL. repressivus.] Having power, or tending, to repress; as, repressive acts or measures. -- Re*press"ive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

repressive adj 1: restrictive of action; "a repressive regime"; "an overly strict and inhibiting discipline" [syn: inhibitory, repressive, repressing]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

69 Moby Thesaurus words for "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