repressive Syllabification: (re·pres·sive)Pronunciation: /riˈpresiv/Translate repressive | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of repressive adjective (especially of a social or political system) inhibiting or restraining the freedom of a person or group of people:a repressive regime inhibiting or preventing the awareness of certain thoughts or feelings:a repressive moral codeDerivatives repressively adverb repressiveness noun repressive in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of repressive in the British & World English dictionary
