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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  repressed
       adj : characterized by or showing the suppression of impulses or
             emotions; "her severe upbringing had left her
             inhibited"; "a very inhibited young man, anxious and
             ill at ease"; "their reactions were partly the product
             of pent-up emotions"; "repressed rage turned his face


             scarlet" [syn: {pent-up}]

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

  63 Moby Thesaurus words for "repressed":
     Lethean, Olympian, absentminded, aloof, amnestic, backward,
     bashful, blank, blocked, chilled, chilly, cold, constrained,
     converted, cool, crushed, detached, discreet, distant,
     expressionless, forbidding, forgetful, forgetting, frigid, frosty,
     guarded, heedless, icy, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible,
     inclined to forget, introverted, modest, oblivious, offish,
     quashed, quelled, remote, removed, reserved, restrained, reticent,
     retiring, shrinking, smashed, smothered, squashed, squelched,
     standoff, standoffish, stifled, subdued, suffocated, suppressed,
     unaffable, unapproachable, uncongenial, undemonstrative,
     unexpansive, ungenial, unmindful, withdrawn
  
  

















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