repressing

Thân thiện

A teacher's repressing rules forbid students from talking during lunch.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Restrictive of action, freedom, or expression; serving to suppress or control: The word "repressing" describes something that actively holds back, subdues, or prevents actions, feelings, or ideas, often through force, authority, or strict control.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The repressing laws silenced any form of political dissent.
  • She grew up in a repressing household where showing emotion was discouraged.
  • The government was accused of using repressing tactics against the protestors.

Advanced Usage

• Used to describe psychological mechanisms: In psychology, "repressing" can describe the unconscious exclusion of distressing thoughts or impulses from conscious awareness.
  • He had a repressing memory of the accident that he could not consciously recall.
• Describing an atmosphere or environment: Can characterize a general climate of control and limitation.
  • The office had a repressing atmosphere that stifled creativity.

Variants and Related Words

• Repress (verb): To subdue or hold back by force, authority, or conscious effort.
  • He tried to repress his anger.
• Repression (noun): The action of repressing or the state of being repressed.
  • The repression of free speech was widespread.
• Repressive (adjective): Very similar in meaning to "repressing," often used interchangeably.
  • They lived under a repressive dictatorship.

Synonyms

• Suppressive: Tending to suppress or put an end to something.
• Oppressive: Unjustly inflicting hardship and constraint.
• Inhibiting: Hindering, restraining, or preventing an action or process.
• Authoritarian: Favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom.

Antonyms

• Permissive: Allowing or characterized by great freedom of behavior.
• Liberal: Favorable to or respectful of individual rights and freedoms.
• Liberating: Setting free from imprisonment, slavery, or oppression.

Related Phrases and Concepts

• Repressing regime: A government system characterized by severe restrictions on freedom.
  • The citizens fled the repressing regime.
• Repressing force: A power or entity that acts to suppress.
  • The army was used as a repressing force against the rebellion.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. restrictive of action
   • a repressive regime
   • an overly strict and inhibiting discipline

Từ đồng nghĩa

• inhibitory
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