Pressed again.
repressed
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for repressed.
Editorial note
When he was deposed the Sunni were repressed and pushed into a repressed role.
Quick take
Pressed again.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of repressed gathered in one view.
Subjected to repression.
(medicine) Showing the suppression of emotions or impulses.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for repressed.
verb
Pressed again.
adjective
Subjected to repression.
adjective
(medicine) Showing the suppression of emotions or impulses.
Example sentences
When he was deposed the Sunni were repressed and pushed into a repressed role.
It isn't a big leap that it could be doing this as well in response to repressed rage and fear.
In my country, artists were repressed because they refused to sing praises to the communist party.
In waves of political movements, many, if not all, of the old elites were repressed, exiled and killed.
I grew up with a repressed sexuality and no knowledge of how to relate to women.
If I were a young-20-something without kids, I might find it a bit uptight, repressed and boring after a while.
This kind of statement gets repeated so often (and posts like mine repressed so often) that people start to believe that diversity really does just mean great food in the real world.
Negative results are essential for a complete understanding of science and when they are repressed, complete access to the globally available data set is not available.
OK, I need to stop now or the repressed memories will come back.
Feels like some kind of repressed incest vibe.
As much as Americans have, we're still very sexually repressed, and having a free-ish market for journalism, scandalous news generates a lot of clicks.
I agree with you that the situation in America is ridiculous, but do you really think Algeria of all places is less sexually repressed and prurient?
Quote examples
I sure hope that institutions like pension funds etc aren't getting pulled into this because of repressed rates of return on "safe" fixed income investments, because this has the potential to end badly.
It seems however, that Eisenhower intended that phrase to use the psychoanalytic definition of complex - "a related group of emotionally significant ideas that are completely or partly repressed and that cause psychic conflict leading to abnormal mental states or behavior".
For example, when we say "white men's advantage" there is an implicit assumption, not always stated or well-understood by users, that this refers to white men in the US, or perhaps more broadly to countries where there's a large population of "non-whites" that have been historically repressed.
Yudkowsky and friends like to argue for what they call "rationality" (which is the name they give a particular form of autistic thinking imbued with repressed fantasies of power -- or a disaster only they can stop -- which is apparent in all of their "reasonable assumptions"), but their "larger than zero probability" games could be applied to just about any dystopic dream there is.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use repressed in a sentence?
When he was deposed the Sunni were repressed and pushed into a repressed role.
What does repressed mean?
Pressed again.
What part of speech is repressed?
repressed is commonly used as verb, adjective.