repressive adj : restrictive of action; "a repressive regime"; "an overly strict and inhibiting discipline" [syn: inhibitory, repressing]

English

Adjective

1. Serving to repress or suppress; oppressive

Quotations

• 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

Italian

Adjective

repressive

1. Feminine plural form of repressivo

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