Irrepressible

Word IRREPRESSIBLE
Character 13
Hyphenation ir re press i ble
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Irrepressible"

What do we mean by irrepressible?

Difficult or impossible to control or restrain. adjective

Not repressible; incapable of being repressed, restrained, or kept under control.

Not capable of being repressed, restrained, or controlled adjective

Not containable or controllable. adjective

Impossible to repress or control adjective

Not containable or controllable.

(of a person) Especially high-spirited, outspoken, or insistent.

Not repressed by others. Urban Dictionary

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The word "irrepressible" in example sentences

You often hear someone described as irrepressible, so why is no one ever called repressible? ❋ Ann Althouse (2006)

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! ❋ Unknown (2004)

Job's outward calamities affect his mind. poured out -- in irrepressible complaints (Ps 42: 4; Jos 7: 5). ❋ Unknown (1871)

(_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_ ❋ Mary Hunter Austin (1901)

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: ❋ R.G. MacBeth (N/A)

"The screw driver is mightier than the sword, hey, Dink?" called the irrepressible Roy, as Dinky hurried away into the darkness. ❋ Percy Keese Fitzhugh (1913)

I'm breaking into what John Norton would call my irrepressible levity. ❋ Unknown (1892)

He abounded in pretexts; he even sometimes brought contributions; he was persistent and penetrating, he was known as the irrepressible Tarrant. ❋ Henry James (1879)

Sayonara Zetsubo-Sensei character Kafuka Fuura has been called her irrepressible optimism. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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?" ❋ Unknown (1983)

"irrepressible" - David was not a straight man: He had his share of laugh lines embedded into the banter. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The real star here turns out to be the Amazon itself, a place thick with "irrepressible" flora and a "gaudy display" of fauna -- a place, in short, that is "neither paradise nor perdition." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Yet, ironically, courts in British jurisdictions often treated prostitutes with a degree of tolerance, seeing them as a necessary social evil; they were an essential component of servicing an "irrepressible" male lust that was beyond the capacity of "respectable" wives and mothers. ❋ Unknown (2005)

As an actress in her youth, she is best known for her portrayal of the "irrepressible" Zelda Gilroy in the long-running 1950s TV show The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The conflict which Mr. Seward pronounced "irrepressible" at last is ended. ❋ James Quay Howard (N/A)

Between chattel slavery and free labor there is 'irrepressible' antagonism, and there could be no real union -- no blending of the twain; but the gulf was bridged, under the pressure of necessity, as the wisdom of the times could best devise. ❋ Various (N/A)

It was running through Honora's mind, while Lily Dallam's characteristic introductions of the other guests were in progress, that "irrepressible" was an inaccurate word to apply to Mr. Brent's manner. ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)

One of the most important, if not the most important, of all these, is that which daily threatens to become the "irrepressible" woman question. ❋ Thomas Henry Huxley (1860)

Though [nobody] had ever [tried] to repress her, she was [irrepressible], since she was the one trying to repress them. ❋ Solid Mantis (2021)

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