Repressed REPRESS'ED, pp. Crushed; subdued.

repressed adj 1: characterized by or showing the suppression of impulses or emotions; "her severe upbringing had left her inhibited"; "a very inhibited young man, anxious and ill at ease"; "their reactions were partly the product of pent-up emotions"; "repressed rage turned his face scarlet" [syn: pent-up, repressed]

repressed derepress

repressed adjective Date: 1665 1. subjected to or marked by repression 2. characterized by restraint

repressed A repressed person is someone who does not allow themselves to have natural feelings and desires, especially sexual ones. Some have charged that the Puritans were sexually repressed and inhibited. ADJ

63 Moby Thesaurus words for "repressed": Lethean, Olympian, absentminded, aloof, amnestic, backward, bashful, blank, blocked, chilled, chilly, cold, constrained, converted, cool, crushed, detached, discreet, distant, expressionless, forbidding, forgetful, forgetting, frigid, frosty, guarded, heedless, icy, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, inclined to forget, introverted, modest, oblivious, offish, quashed, quelled, remote, removed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, shrinking, smashed, smothered, squashed, squelched, standoff, standoffish, stifled, subdued, suffocated, suppressed, unaffable, unapproachable, uncongenial, undemonstrative, unexpansive, ungenial, unmindful, withdrawn

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