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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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REPRESSIVE definition: 1. controlling what people do, especially by using force: 2. preventing people from expressing…. Learn more.
a. : to hold in by self-control. repressed a laugh. b. : to prevent the natural or normal expression, activity, or development of. repressed her anger. 3. : to exclude from consciousness. repressed the memory of abuse. 4. : to inactivate (a gene or formation of a gene product) by allosteric combination at a DNA binding site.
REPRESSIVE meaning: 1. controlling what people do, especially by using force: 2. preventing people from expressing…. Learn more.
Repressive definition: tending or serving to repress. See examples of REPRESSIVE used in a sentence.
2 meanings: 1. acting to control, suppress, or restrain 2. subjecting people, a society, etc to a state of subjugation.... Click for more definitions.
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.
the use of force or violence to control a group of people: The political repression in this country is enforced by terror. the process and effect of keeping particular thoughts and wishes out of your conscious mind in order to defend or protect it: an attitude of unhealthy sexual repression. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
