All repressive synonyms
re·pres·sive
R r adjective repressive
- autocratic — An autocratic person or organization has complete power and makes decisions without asking anyone else's advice.
- infestive — Tending to infest; acting like an infection.
- despotic — If you say that someone is despotic, you are emphasizing that they use their power over other people in a very unfair or cruel way.
- depressive — Depressive means relating to depression or to being depressed.
- oppressive — burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
- constraining — Present participle of constrain.
adj repressive
- ironhanded — having or governing with an iron hand.