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[syn: pent-up, repressed]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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unexpansive, ungenial, unmindful, withdrawn