Meanings
adjectiveredressive (comparative more redressive, superlative most redressive)
comparative more redressive · superlative most redressive
- Tending to redress.
And here can I forget the generous band Who touch'd with human woe, redressive search'd Into the horrors of the gloomy jail ?
a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Winter”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC
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Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with redressive
progressiveimpressiveaggressiveexcessivesuccessiveexpressiveobsessivedepressiveoppressiverepressivecompressiverecessiveimmunosuppressiveregressivepossessivesuppressiveautoregressiveunimpressiveantidepressivetransgressiveretrogressivepressiveprocessivedigressive
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APA
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Chicago
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