Hyphenation of repressive

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word repressive? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

re-pres-sive

Definitions of repressive:

1.	Restrictive of action A repressive regime An overly strict and inhibiting discipline

Synonyms of repressive:

adj	inhibitory, repressing, restrictive

Last hyphenations of this language

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