repressive

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

repressive
    adj 1: restrictive of action; "a repressive regime"; "an overly
           strict and inhibiting discipline" [syn: {inhibitory},
           {repressive}, {repressing}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Repressive \Re*press"ive\ (r?-pr?s"?v), a. [Cf. F. r['e]pressif.
   LL. repressivus.]
   Having power, or tending, to repress; as, repressive acts or
   measures. -- {Re*press"ive*ly}, adv.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

69 Moby Thesaurus words for "repressive":
      absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, arbitrary, aristocratic,
      arrogant, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, bossy, brutal,
      choking, constraining, constrictive, contrary, counterproductive,
      crosswise, despotic, dictatorial, domineering, exclusive, feudal,
      forbidding, grinding, high-handed, hindering, hindersome,
      imperative, imperial, imperious, in the way, inhibiting,
      inhibitive, inhibitory, interdictive, interdictory, interrupting,
      interruptive, lordly, magisterial, magistral, masterful,
      monocratic, obstructing, obstructive, obstruent, occlusive,
      oppressive, overbearing, overruling, peremptory, preclusive,
      preventive, prohibiting, prohibitive, prohibitory, proscriptive,
      restraining, restrictive, severe, stifling, strangling, strict,
      stultifying, suppressive, totalitarian, troublesome, tyrannical,
      tyrannous