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What is the adjective for repressionary?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb repress which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

irrepressible
  1. Not containable or controllable.
  2. (of a person) Especially high-spirited, outspoken, or insistent.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. uncontrollable, unrestrained, wild, unmanageable, intractable, unconstrained, unstoppable, unquenchable, uncontainable, incorrigible, unrestrainable, insuppressible, relentless, unrelenting, unremitting, inexorable, out of control, unrestricted, unbridled, unchecked, uninhibited, ungoverned, unsuppressed, footloose, freewheeling, out of hand, go-as-you-please, uncontrolled, unhampered, intemperate, rampant, unhindered, abandoned, unbounded, unimpeded, free, uncurbed, reckless, raw, unlimited, immoderate, unrepressed, inordinate, audacious, boundless, outrageous, undying, enduring, unfailing, eternal … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “It remains uncertain, despite his irrepressible need to perform in public, whether Jackson himself will take the stand.”
      “His mother's irrepressible love for her vile husband, Arthur considered, had been correctly labeled by his late uncle monomania.”
      “An irrepressible child, filled with love for the water, could be well on the road to swimming at three years of age.”
repressed
  1. Subjected to repression.
  2. (medicine) Showing the suppression of emotions or impulses.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. subjugated, tyrannised, tyrannized, crushed, subdued, oppressed, downtrodden, intimidated, overpowered, ground down, abused, maltreated, persecuted, mistreated, victimized, misused, exploited, burdened, disadvantaged, suppressed, enslaved, underprivileged, subservient, helpless, prostrate, underfoot, victimised, ill-treated, have-not, under one's thumb, weighed down, under the thumb, at one's mercy, at one's feet, a slave to, bullied, powerless, underdog, overcome, under someone's heel, in one's power, in one's pocket, in one's clutches, led by the nose, at beck and call, browbeaten, subject, tormented, abject, beleaguered … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “When the tyrant dies, the repressed peoples of the world will have cause to dance and sing in joy.”
      “Clearly shy and repressed emotionally, he was nevertheless a man of quiet charm and native intelligence.”
      “He expresses his romantic regrets which regularly return in his work like a repressed temptation.”
repressible
  1. Capable of being repressed, of being controlled, of being suppressed or limited.
  2. Examples:
      3. “Finally, let us examine a minimal genetic toggle based on two repressible promoters arranged in a mutually inhibitory network.”
      “However, a putative glucose repressible element and TCACGC sequences were not detected in the upstream region sequenced.”
      “Especially repressible is the pretense of the racists to be acting on behalf of the soldiers.”
repressive
  1. Serving to repress or suppress; oppressive
  2. Synonyms:
      3. oppressive, despotic, tyrannical, dictatorial, authoritarian, autocratic, tyrannous, harsh, undemocratic, draconian, severe, absolute, strict, cruel, brutal, totalitarian, tough, illiberal, coercive, fascist, dominating, suppressive, forbidding, restrictive, constraining, exploitive, governing, prohibiting, anti-democratic, iron-fisted, overbearing, imperious, domineering, arbitrary, bossy, peremptory, authoritative, tyrannic, high-handed, overweening, ruthless, autocratical, masterful, dogmatic, magisterial, ironhanded, monocratic, rigid, autarchic, inhuman … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The latest move to establish regional offices has created fears of a possible return to repressive and abusive practices.”
      “The country is drifting dangerously towards aggressive military adventurism and the establishment of a repressive national-security state.”
      “Others say the West has forced the government to reinstate the repressive apparatus used by the previous regime to quash opposition.”
repressionary
  1. Causing repression; repressive.
repressing
  1. present participle of repress
  2. Synonyms:
      3. suppressing, stifling, restraining, smothering, curbing, checking, containing, swallowing, controlling, strangling, concealing, inhibiting, muffling, sinking, hiding, submerging, silencing, gagging, pocketing, overpowering, frustrating, corking, shushing, blocking, bottling, internalising, internalizing, holding back, keeping back, choking back, fighting back, bottling up, biting back, keeping in check, reining in, holding in, keeping under control, corking up, buttoning up, keeping the lid on, keeping in, keeping under wraps, blacking out, jamming up, keeping inside, withholding, restricting, stopping, bridling, quashing … more
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