Usually means: Inhibiting or restraining normal function.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. suppressive: Merriam-Webster
  2. suppressive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. suppressive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. suppressive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. suppressive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Suppressive, suppressive: Wordnik
  7. suppressive: Wiktionary
  8. suppressive: Dictionary.com
  9. Suppressive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. suppressive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. suppressive: Rhymezone
  12. Suppressive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. suppressive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. suppressive: FreeDictionary.org
  15. suppressive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. suppressive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. suppressive: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. suppressive: Legal dictionary

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. suppressive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. suppressive: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (suppressive)

▸ adjective:  That serves to suppress.
▸ noun:  Any drug that acts to suppress a condition.

Similar:
restrictive, suppressory, disinhibiting, restricting, stifled, extinguishant, prohibitory, squashed, defusive, subdued, more...

Opposite:
expressive, liberating, permissive, encouraging

Types:
repressive, authoritarian, tyrannical, totalitarian, despotic, dictatorial, more...

Phrases:
Suppressive fire, suppressive person, more...

Adjectives:
more, less, immune, effective, fluorescent, malarial, efficient, subjectless, mild, tumor

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Similar:
restrictive, suppressory, disinhibiting, restricting, stifled, extinguishant, prohibitory, squashed, defusive, subdued, more...

Opposite:
expressive, liberating, permissive, encouraging

Types:
repressive, authoritarian, tyrannical, totalitarian, despotic, dictatorial, more...

Phrases:
Suppressive fire, suppressive person, more...

Adjectives:
more, less, immune, effective, fluorescent, malarial, efficient, subjectless, mild, tumor

Colors:
    black,     gray,     dark blue,     dark green,     maroon, more...



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