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[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