Definition of Suppressive

1. Adjective. Tending to suppress. "The government used suppressive measures to control the protest"

Similar to: Restrictive
Derivative terms: Suppress, Suppress

Definition of Suppressive

1. a. Tending to suppress; subduing; concealing.

Definition of Suppressive

1. Adjective. That serves to suppress ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Suppressive

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suppressive

supposures
suppress
suppressant
suppressants
suppressed
suppresser
suppresser gene
suppresses
suppresseth
suppressibility
suppressible
suppressing
suppressio veri
suppression
suppressions
suppressive (current term)
suppressive fire
suppressiveness
suppressor
suppressor gene
suppressors
supprest
supprise
supprised
supprises
supprising
suppurate
suppurated
suppurates
suppurating

Literary usage of Suppressive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Theory of Legislation by Jeremy Bentham, Etienne Dumont, Richard Hildreth (1840)
"In determining the punishment, reference must be had to the intentions of the offender; in applying preventive and suppressive remedies, we must take into ..."

2. A History of Greece: From Its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time, B by George Finlay (1877)
"THE POLICY AND CONDUCT OF SULTAN MAHMUD II. Policy of Sultan Mahmud.—suppressive measures and first executions of Greeks.— Execution of the Patriarch ..."

3. Annual report of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service of the by United States Public Health Service (1921)
"PLAGUE suppressive MEASURES. The operations for the control of plague in California have ... Plague suppressive measures have been continued in New Orleans, ..."

4. History of the Greek Revolution by George Finlay (1861)
"POLICY OP SULTAN MAHMUD—suppressive MEASURES AND FIRST EXECUTIONS OP GREEKS—EXECUTION OF THE PATRIARCH ..."

5. The Country School: A Study of Its Foundations, Relations, Developments by Homer Horatio Seerley (1913)
"... remarkable kinds that are beautiful to look upon, but suppressive in result and training. Such a system does not train in self-control or self- ..."

6. The Country School: A Study of Its Foundations, Relations, Developments by Homer Horatio Seerley (1913)
"There is such a thing as attempting to compel order and conduct of remarkable kinds that are beautiful to look upon, but suppressive in result and training. ..."

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