"suppressive" meaning in English

See suppressive in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /səˈprɛ.sɪv/, [səˈpʰrʷɛ.sɪv] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-suppressive.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more suppressive [comparative], most suppressive [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɛsɪv Etymology: From suppress + -ive. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|suppress|ive}} suppress + -ive Head templates: {{en-adj}} suppressive (comparative more suppressive, superlative most suppressive)
  1. That serves to suppress. Translations (Translations): suprimiente (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-suppressive-en-adj-Vka-1MKM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ive, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 49 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ive: 47 53 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 51 49 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 34 33 2 2 24 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 33 33 1 1 29 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 50 50 Derived forms: allosuppressive, atherosuppressive, cardiosuppressive, fibrosuppressive, hypersuppressive, immunosuppressive, lymphosuppressive, myelosuppressive, neurosuppressive, nonsuppressive, oncosuppressive, semisuppressive, suppressively, suppressiveness, suppressive person, thrombosuppressive, unsuppressive

Noun

IPA: /səˈprɛ.sɪv/, [səˈpʰrʷɛ.sɪv] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-suppressive.wav [Southern-England] Forms: suppressives [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛsɪv Etymology: From suppress + -ive. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|suppress|ive}} suppress + -ive Head templates: {{en-noun}} suppressive (plural suppressives)
  1. Any drug that acts to suppress a condition.
    Sense id: en-suppressive-en-noun-WXlSDPSi Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ive, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 49 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ive: 47 53 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 51 49 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 34 33 2 2 24 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 33 33 1 1 29 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 50 50

Inflected forms

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Download raw JSONL data for suppressive meaning in English (3.6kB)

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