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repressed

adjective

re·​pressed ri-ˈprest How to pronounce repressed (audio)
1
: subjected to or marked by repression
2
: characterized by restraint

Example Sentences

a 19th-century church in the repressed style favored by the strict religious sect
Recent Examples on the Web Yet the long and melancholy withdrawal from empire was drowned out by the rise of a new England, less class-ridden, cold and repressed, and more musical, multiracial and fashionable. Dominic Green, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022 His past films include Berberian Sound Studio, which followed a repressed sound designer working on an Italian horror film, and The Duke of Burgundy, which essayed the sado-masochistic relationship between two lepidopterists. David Sims, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2022 Doing so brings her to meet another night-type, Eli (Belmont Cameli), who has a repressed past of his own. Angela Andaloro, EW.com, 23 June 2022 Even before Freud came along with his batty theories about infantile sexuality and repressed wishes to kill one’s father, the discipline had struggled to define its methods and objectives. Daphne Merkin, The Atlantic, 10 July 2022 In four decades as a psychologist, Anderson had witnessed waves of adolescents develop eating disorders and repressed memory syndrome. Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2022 Although Sigal gradually pieces together the facts of Harrison’s case, a lot of the film’s allusions to reincarnation and repressed memories remain just vague enough to allow for broad interpretation. Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2022 Why doesn’t this character remember these until-now repressed details? K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 20 June 2022 If Cho’s casting was a foregone conclusion, the most challenging role to fill was Will, the aloof and snobbish Darcy character who eventually reveals a wellspring of decency and repressed passion. Inkoo Kang, Washington Post, 7 June 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1606, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of repressed was in 1606

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