Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an irrepressible manner or degree; so as to preclude repression.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a manner or to a degree that can not be repressed.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a manner or to a degree that can not be repressed; in an irrepressible way.

Etymologies

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irrepressible +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • What made her spin and twirl about like this -- irresponsibly, unintentionally, irrepressibly, meaninglessly?

    What's Bred in the Bone Grant Allen 1873

  • Poppy is the kind of irrepressibly chipper person who attempts to start conversations with random strangers; when they act standoffish, she says things like, "I won't bite!"

    Portland Mercury 2009

  • Poppy (Sally Hawkins) is the kind of irrepressibly chipper person who attempts to start conversations with random strangers; when they act standoffish, she says things like, "I won't bite!"

    Portland Mercury 2009

  • Poppy (Sally Hawkins) is the kind of irrepressibly chipper person who attempts to start conversations with random strangers; when they act standoffish, she says things like, "I won't bite!"

    Portland Mercury 2009

  • The children are back from their Christmas holiday with their father, irrepressibly bouncy and laden with plastic tat, an inch taller each.

    Diary of a separation 2012

  • Although he can be as stern as any stony-faced Puritan preacher, especially on the topic of greed, he regards our planet—the site of all our mortal trials and travails—as an irrepressibly joyous place, everywhere open to human betterment.

    Dispatches From the Natural World 2011

  • Diana was also irrepressibly mischievous, and William inherited that quality, too.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

  • Owain Weinert is a terminally ill 10-year-old boy, introduced by the Make-A-Wish Foundation to PopCap, the irrepressibly quirky developer recently very expensively purchased by Electronic Arts.

    This week's new games 2011

  • Mr. Stein wrote the librettos for more than a dozen Broadway musicals, including "Zorba," a 1968 production about an irrepressibly charismatic Greek title character.

    Joseph Stein, writer of Broadway's "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Zorba," dies at 98 Emma Brown 2010

  • Arthur's a bike messenger - long lean musculature that only seems like gangliness because he's irrepressibly silly.

    Odin's Day ellyssian 2009

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