repressive
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7.0
- adjective
- /rɪˈprɛsɪv/
- The Tunisian revolution was the first step in dismantling the old repressive regional order; the Egyptian revolution was the second.
- repressive regime
- repressive measures
- repressive system
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Watch on YouTubeSince then, the country has become one of the most repressive for women and girls worldwide.
- Since then, the country has become one of the most repressive for women and girls worldwide.
- So I'm not going to make any brief for that murderous, repressive regime.
- And then there were people who simply got caught up in a process whereby the repressive organs in the provinces were sent quotas.
- There is a very repressive culture when it comes to true diversity of thought in Canadian mainstream media.
- Lex is an autocratic, repressive regime that invades its neighbors in the name of its own security, something new in Russian history.
- And the government, so he says, creates by its repressive attitude towards it as a hostile principle.
Examples
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Mary Shelley grew up with a self-righteous and repressive father, no mother, and a nasty stepmother.
Fiction book (2002) -
There is a very repressive culture when it comes to true diversity of thought in Canadian mainstream media.
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Since then, the country has become one of the most repressive for women and girls worldwide.
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The military, however, engaged in massive repressive measures against the left.
Academic text (1991) -
That was an ugly and repressive time and I'm glad that it's over.
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I will not bow to a repressive government that wants to violate my human rights.
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Their actual rule, which was guided by strong men and repressive measures, reflects this fear of popular mobilization.
Academic text (1990) -
Decades after following Washington's repressive drug policies, most Latin American countries face even worse drug-related problems.
Academic text (2012) -
China's leadership is fully aware that free market economic reform necessitates a more open, less-repressive society.
Academic text (1999) -
The company implemented repressive policies that limited employees' ability to voice their opinions.
Synonyms
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4.7
Limits what people can do by rules or laws
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6.3
Using harsh, unfair power to control people and limit their freedom
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3.5
Keeping someone or something from having full freedom and many choices
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6.3
Makes someone or something unable to act freely
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7.0
Able to stop or reduce something unwanted
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5.6
That limits someone's freedom or ability to move
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6.5
Causes people to feel limited and unable to act freely
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7.6
Causing an action to stop or slow down
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7.1
Making people or groups have less freedom to grow
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7.5
That makes something difficult to do or slow to happen
Antonyms
How Repressive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Repressive comes from the Latin reprimere, made of re- 'back' and press, like the English word press, meaning 'to press back'. So a repressive law or government 'presses down' on people's freedom or stops them from speaking.