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Repressive vs Hardhearted - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between repressive and hardhearted

is that repressive is serving to repress or suppress; oppressive while hardhearted is lacking in compassion; cold and pitiless.

repressive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Serving to repress or suppress; oppressive
  • * 1846 Allan Freer - The North British Review
    • Human law is indeed repressive', but ' repressive on moral principles comprehensively applied to the whole community, and commanding the approval of the moral sense of the governed
  • * 1989 Louis Henkin - Right V. Might
    • First, the classical rule forbids any unilateral right to use force to overthrow a regime on the sole grounds that it is repressive in character.

    hardhearted

    English

    Alternative forms

    * hard-hearted

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lacking in compassion; cold and pitiless.

    • Antonyms

    * softhearted

    References

    * * * * " hardhearted" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002)