insuppressible

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adjective

That cannot be suppressed.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

adjectiveinsuppressible (comparative more insuppressible, superlative most insuppressible)

comparative more insuppressible · superlative most insuppressible

  1. That cannot be suppressed.

    It seemed as if the sense of public resentment had long been gathering strength unperceived, and now burst forth into insuppressible violence.

    1903, William Godwin, Caleb Williams
    1 more example

    In its stead Victor favoured Karslake with a slow smile of understanding that broadened into an insuppressible grin of successful malice, a grimace of crude exultation through which peered out the impish savage mutinously imprisoned within a flimsy husk of modern manner.

    1921, Louis Joseph Vance, Red Masquerade

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Origin

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APA

insuppressible. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/insuppressible

MLA

“insuppressible.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/insuppressible. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “insuppressible,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/insuppressible.

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