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adj. Causing or inclined to cause repression: a repressive dictatorship.

adj. Serving to repress or suppress; oppressive

adj. Having power, or tending, to repress.

Having power to repress or crush; tending to subdue or restrain.

adj. restrictive of action

"He says the elections held by what he calls the repressive regime are absolutely unfair and not free."

restrictive   

Progressive    aggressive    depressive    excessive    expressive    impressive    obsessive    oppressive    possessive    progressive   

authoritarian    restrictive    autocratic    coercive    totalitarian    prohibitory    dysfunctional    one-party    theocratic    divisive