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Irrepressible definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IRREPRESS'IBLE, a. [in and repressible.] That cannot be repressed.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: impossible to repress or control; "an irrepressible chatterbox"; "uncontrollable laughter" [syn: irrepressible, uncontrollable]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1811 impossible to repress, restrain, or control <irrepressible curiosity> • irrepressibility noun • irrepressibly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. that cannot be repressed or restrained. Derivatives: irrepressibility n. irrepressibleness n. irrepressibly adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Irrepressible Ir`re*press"i*ble, a. Not capable of being repressed, restrained, or controlled; as, irrepressible joy; an irrepressible conflict. --W. H. Steward.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

An irrepressible person is lively and energetic and never seems to be depressed. Jon's exuberance was irrepressible. ADJ • irrepressibly Gavin was irrepressibly rebellious. ADV: usu ADV adj/-ed

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Uncontrollable, insuppressible, not to be repressed.

Moby Thesaurus

abandoned, beaming, beyond control, blithe, blithesome, boisterous, breachy, bright, bright and sunny, bubbling, buoyant, cheerful, cheery, contumacious, defiant, ebullient, effervescent, elated, enthusiastic, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated, flushed, fractious, genial, glad, gladsome, glowing, go-go, happy, high, hopeful, immoderate, in good spirits, in high spirits, incontinent, incorrigible, indocile, indomitable, indulgent, insuppressible, intemperate, intractable, laughing, lax, licentious, loose, nonrestrictive, obstreperous, of good cheer, optimistic, out of control, out of hand, permissive, pleasant, radiant, rampant, recalcitrant, refractory, reinless, resistant, resisting, restive, rhapsodical, riant, riotous, rosy, sanguine, sanguineous, shrewish, smiling, sparkling, sunny, unbiddable, unbridled, unchecked, uncoerced, uncompelled, unconstrained, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, uncurbed, unforced, ungovernable, ungoverned, uninhibited, unmalleable, unmanageable, unmastered, unmeasured, unmoldable, unmuzzled, unreined, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestrictive, unruly, unstoppable, unsubdued, unsubmissive, unsuppressed, wanton, wild, winsome