Dictionary

repressive en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English press English repress Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English repressive From repress + -ive.

Meanings

1. Serving to repress or suppress; oppressive
   • District 7 notably detonated landmines and killed a large group of Peacekeepers while the 75th Hunger Games were going on, signaling to the Capitol the district was joining others in a rebellion against its repressive rule. 2023 November 30, Colin McCormick, Allison Gemmill, “Hunger Games Panem Map Guide: Every Location Explained”, in Screen Rant, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2025:
   • 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 1846, Allan Freer, The North British Review:
   • 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. 1989, Louis Henkin, Right V. Might:

Forms

Deriveds

nonrepressive · immunorepressive · corepressive · transrepressive · antirepressive · unrepressive · derepressive · repressiveness · autorepressive · repressively · repressivism

Translations (17)

sv undertryckande (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive) · bg репресивен (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive) · it repressivo (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive) · id represif (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive) · fr répressif (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive) · de repressiv (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive) · hi दमनकारी (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive) · bg потиснически (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive) · fi sorto- (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive) · fi repressiivinen (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive) · gl represivo (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive) · es represivo (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive) · sv repressiv (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive) · fi sortava (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive) · sv hämmande (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive) · ru репресси́вный (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive) · ca repressiu (serving to repress or suppress; oppressive)