repressive

See also: répressive

English

Etymology

From repress +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

• 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.

Translations

serving to repress or suppress; oppressive

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

Anagrams

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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