Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Difficult or impossible to control or restrain: irrepressible laughter.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not repressible; incapable of being repressed, restrained, or kept under control.
Wiktionary
- adj. Not containable or controllable.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not capable of being repressed, restrained, or controlled
WordNet 3.0
- adj. impossible to repress or control
Etymologies
- From ir- + repressible. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“You often hear someone described as irrepressible, so why is no one ever called repressible?”
“The scaling him with chairs for ladders to dive into his pockets, despoil him of brown-paper parcels, hold on tight by his cravat, hug him round his neck, pommel his back, and kick his legs in irrepressible affection!”
“Job's outward calamities affect his mind. poured out -- in irrepressible complaints (Ps 42: 4; Jos 7: 5).”
“(_As she rises on the last movement of the dance toward ecstasy, the excitement rises with her, expressing itself in short, irrepressible yelps, at the highest point of which a scream from_”
“Some of the men now coming over it with the police had travelled it with Wolseley a few years previously and would have vivid recollections of the flies and mud and portages and the need of manufacturing skidways over the bogs, but they would also recall the irrepressible and uproarious spirit in which they used to sing of their additional accomplishments in the rollicking "Jolly Boys" chorus:”
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“The screw driver is mightier than the sword, hey, Dink?" called the irrepressible Roy, as Dinky hurried away into the darkness.”
“I'm breaking into what John Norton would call my irrepressible levity.”
“He abounded in pretexts; he even sometimes brought contributions; he was persistent and penetrating, he was known as the irrepressible Tarrant.”
“Sayonara Zetsubo-Sensei character Kafuka Fuura has been called her irrepressible optimism.”
“One recalls the irrepressible Hyman Kaplan, who explained to his night-school class that the "R.S.V.P." he'd tacked onto his composition meant "Reply, vill you plizz?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘irrepressible’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Vocalublary Awareness
Words I need to use more to increase my vocabulary.
incredulous, egregious, prolific, ubiquitous, aplomb, resilience, persevere, punctilious, perspicacious, inordinate, articulate, enunciate and 199 more...
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MyVocab
A list of words to remember to incorporate into my vocabulary.
An extensive vocabulary aids expressions and communication.
Vocabulary size has been directly linked to reading com...acquiesce, self-disparaging, receded, abrogate, robust, putative, capricious, imperious, lexicon, syntax, semantics, pith and 139 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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GRE 3500 I
ignoble, ignominy, illicit, illimitable, imbibe, immaculate, impale, impalpable, impart, impasse, impassive, impeccable and 96 more...
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List A
sorority, tantalize, untimely, deem, to wit, pliable, deteriorate, fortnight, Immaculate, susurration, bushed, stray and 56 more...
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A Christmas Carol vocabulary
ironmongery, unhallowed, residuary, ramparts, entreaty, trifle, phantoms, intimation, impoverished, miser, alienated, morose and 82 more...
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must employ on more frequent occasions
These words I know, I just haven't used them in a while. Time to bring them back into vogue.
questionable, mishap, hectic, prone, departure, retrieve, elsewhere, insurmountable, distraught, immeasurable, potent, ravenous and 76 more...
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catch-all
this will do until i save enough that i need to sort them
otiose, peripatetic, ersatz, pusillanimous, fustian, persiflage, discursive, impecunious, snell, irrepressible, exultant, rapturous and 6 more...
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etymology
preferential, hind, kindling, nonsignificant, intervening, mistakenly, syntactic, streamlined, impassion, impure, involuntary, plaint and 57 more...
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Qualities and feelings
simple, joy, bright, delight, clean, green, wholesome, early, clear, quiet, still, silence and 34 more...
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