suppressive

1. 1.

   tending to suppress

   “the government used suppressive measures to control the protest”

   Similarrestrictive

Questions about suppressive

What does suppressive mean?

suppressive means "tending to suppress".

How many syllables are in suppressive?

suppressive has 3 syllables: sup-pres-sive. The stress falls on "sup".

Is suppressive a common word?

suppressive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.