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- Dictionaryrepressive/rɪˈprɛsɪv/
adjective
- 1. (especially of a social or political system) inhibiting or restraining personal freedom: "a repressive regime"
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Repress is a verb that means to check, subdue, or prevent something by force, pressure, or self-control. It can also mean to exclude something from consciousness or to inactivate a gene. See synonyms, examples, and word history of repress.
Repressive means controlling what people do, especially by using force, or preventing people from expressing their feelings. Learn more about this adjective, its synonyms, and its usage in sentences from various sources.
Repressive things keep people from doing or saying what they want. Repressive controls on the press don't allow journalists to freely report the news. It's almost always a government, or a political or social system, that acts in a repressive way.
Definition of repressive adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Repression is the use of force or violence to control a group of people, or the process and effect of keeping particular thoughts and wishes out of your conscious mind. Learn more about the meaning, synonyms, collocations and translations of repression with Cambridge Dictionary.
Define repressive. repressive synonyms, repressive pronunciation, repressive translation, English dictionary definition of repressive. adj. Causing or inclined to cause repression: a repressive dictatorship. re·pres′sive·ly adv. re·pres′sive·ness n.
A complete guide to the word "REPRESSIVE": definitions, pronunciations, synonyms, grammar insights, collocations, examples, and translations.
