Usually means: In a controlling and restrictive manner.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word repressively:

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  1. repressively: Merriam-Webster
  2. repressively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. repressively: Collins English Dictionary
  4. repressively: Vocabulary.com
  5. repressively: Wordnik
  6. repressively: Wiktionary
  7. repressively: Dictionary.com
  8. repressively: FreeDictionary.org
  9. repressively: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. repressively: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. repressively: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (repressively)

▸ adverb:  In a repressive manner.

Similar:
repressedly, oppressively, unrepressedly, suppressively, suppressedly, repulsively, erasively, restrictively, reprovingly, inhibitedly, more...

Opposite:
liberally, openly, freely, permissively

Types:
stifling, suffocating, choking, crushing, overwhelming, smothering, more...

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Similar:
repressedly, oppressively, unrepressedly, suppressively, suppressedly, repulsively, erasively, restrictively, reprovingly, inhibitedly, more...

Opposite:
liberally, openly, freely, permissively

Types:
stifling, suffocating, choking, crushing, overwhelming, smothering, more...



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