Repressive vs Obstructive - What's the difference?
repressive | obstructive | Related terms |
Serving to repress or suppress; oppressive
* 1846 Allan Freer - The North British Review
* 1989 Louis Henkin - Right V. Might
Causing obstructions.
* I wanted to see his report on me, but my manager was being obstructive .
As adjectives the difference between repressive and obstructive
is that repressive is serving to repress or suppress; oppressive while obstructive is causing obstructions.repressive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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
- 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.
