repressive

See also: répressive

English

Etymology

From repress +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

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• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛsɪv

Adjective

repressive (comparative more repressive, superlative most repressive)

1. Serving to repress or suppress; oppressive
   • 1846, Allan Freer, The North British Review:

     Human law is indeed repressive, but repressive on moral principles comprehensively applied to the whole community, and commanding the approval of the moral sense of the governed

   • 1989, Louis Henkin, Right V. Might:

     First, the classical rule forbids any unilateral right to use force to overthrow a regime on the sole grounds that it is repressive in character.

Derived terms

• antirepressive
• autorepressive
• corepressive
• derepressive
• immunorepressive
• nonrepressive
• repressively
• repressiveness
• repressivism
• transrepressive
• unrepressive

Translations

serving to repress or suppress; oppressive

Bulgarian: репресивен (bg) (represiven), потиснически (bg) (potisničeski) Catalan: repressiu (ca) Finnish: sortava (fi), sorto- (fi), repressiivinen (fi) French: répressif (fr) Galician: represivo (gl) German: repressiv (de) Hindi: दमनकारी (damankārī) Indonesian: represif (id) Italian: repressivo (it) Russian: репресси́вный (ru) (repressívnyj) Spanish: represivo Swedish: undertryckande, hämmande (sv), repressiv (sv)

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German

Pronunciation

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Adjective

repressive

1. inflection of repressiv:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

repressive

1. feminine plural of repressivo