🤐 Able to control 🧬 Can be switched off

repressible

6.3

Able to be kept under control, like emotions or urges

adjective
/rɪˈprɛsəbl/

: reprimible

His excitement was barely repressible as he waited for the results.

Examples

She found her anger surprisingly repressible in stressful situations.
The urge to laugh was not easily repressible during the performance.
His anger was repressible during the meeting.
The repressible emotions within her were hard to ignore.
Despite the shocking news, she managed to keep her feelings repressible until after the meeting.
His laughter was repressible on the funny parts of the movie, making it hard for him to stay quiet.
During the tense discussion, her disappointment was repressible as she tried to maintain professionalism.

Synonyms

containable

vsrepressible

1 4.0

Something that can be kept under control or stopped from spreading

focuses on general control rather than specifically blocking spread

suppressible

vsrepressible

1 6.8

Something you can stop by action such as medicine

allows control or restraint without necessarily ending progress

How Controllable

repressible

6.3

controllable

11 3.2

manageable

57 3.2

intractable

22 8.7

Surface Forms

repressible positive

Morphology

repressible = repress (transparent) = repress + ible

This is a regular adjective meaning 'able to be repressed' built directly from the verb 'repress' with '-ible'.

Etymology

Repressible comes from the prefix re- meaning 'back' and the root press meaning 'to push'. Think of 'pressing back' on a feeling or action, so something repressible can be pushed down or kept under control.