Suppressive

3 definitions found

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

  Suppressive \Sup*press"ive\, a.
     Tending to suppress; subduing; concealing.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  suppressive
       adj : tending to suppress; "the government used suppressive
             measures to control the protest"

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

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "suppressive":
     absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, arbitrary, aristocratic,
     arrogant, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, bossy, 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, repressive, restraining,
     restrictive, severe, stifling, strangling, strict, stultifying,
     troublesome, tyrannical, tyrannous