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repressed | represser | repressible | repressing | repression | repressive | repressor | repressor gene | reprevable | repreve | repriefe

repressive

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Adjective
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re=pres=sive

CIDE DICTIONARY

repressivea. [Cf. F. répressif. LL. repressivus.].
     Having power, or tending, to repress; as, repressive acts or measures.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

repressive

absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, bossy, brutal, 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, restraining, restrictive, severe, stifling, strangling, strict, stultifying, suppressive, totalitarian, troublesome, tyrannical, tyrannous

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