adjective
- tending or serving to repress: repressive laws.
adjective
- acting to control, suppress, or restrain
- subjecting people, a society, etc, to a state of subjugation
early 15c., from Middle French repressif, from Latin repress-, past participle stem of reprimere (see repress). Related: Repressively.
adj.
- Causing or inclined to cause repression.