Repressive

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  repressive
       adj : restrictive of action; "a repressive regime"; "an overly
             strict and inhibiting discipline" [syn: {inhibitory}, {repressing}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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