repressive
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- adjective
- /rɪˈprɛsɪv/
- Specialized
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represivo
- Although Freud here seems confident that the repressive process eventually will be removed, the continuing resistance that he notes must seem ominous.
- repressive complex
Examples
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Interestingly, their intent was in part to prevent the exposure of or access by Europeans to a less sexually repressive environment.
Academic text (1990) -
"No," you want to say, "the Repressive Hypothesis is a fallacy."
Fiction book (1991) -
People with tight, regimented, "repressive" personalities have elevated metabolic rates in the frontal cortex, whereas sociopaths have lower-than-normal ones.
Academic text (2003) -
The accommodation indicates the further development of what the German philosopher Herbert Marcuse termed "repressive desublimation," whereby alternative forms of behavior are tolerated by being given outlets in commodity consumption.
Academic text (2012) -
Rather than merely a process of repressive desublimation, however, such a condition in fact acknowledges the success of performance art's challenge to the hermeticism and objectification of art that paralleled the political challenges to Fordist capitalism during the 1960s and 1970s.
Academic text (2012) -
First, even in regard to elections, it implies going beyond the absence-of-fraud measure to permit a critique of elections held in an overall context of a system that excludes certain ideological positions and retains many coercive-repressive elements.
Academic text (2000) -
The researchers discovered that certain environmental factors can lead to repressive changes in gene expression.
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Histone modifications play a crucial role in creating repressive environments for specific genes.
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In some cases, the presence of repressor proteins can inhibit gene activation, creating a repressive effect on development.
Synonyms
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Able to stop or reduce something unwanted
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 in biology a repressive state 'presses down' on a gene, making the gene less active or turning it off.