About The Word Oppressive
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Oppressive
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What's The Definition Of Oppressive?
[adj] marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior; "the oppressive government"; "oppressive laws"; "a tyrannical parent"; "tyrannous disregard of human rights"
[adj] weighing heavily on the senses or spirit; "the atmosphere was oppressive"; "oppressive sorrows" Synonyms | Synonyms for Oppressive: domineering | heavy | tyrannical | tyrannous Related Terms | Find terms related to Oppressive: absolute | absolutist | absolutistic | agonizing | airless | annoying | arbitrary | arduous | aristocratic | arrogant | authoritarian | authoritative | autocratic | backbreaking | besetting | black | bleak | bossy | bothersome | breathless | breezeless | brutal | burdensome | close | crushing | cumbersome | cumbrous | demanding | depressant | depressing | depressive | despotic | dictatorial | discouraging | disheartening | dismal | dispiriting | distressing | dolorous | domineering | down | effortful | encumbering | exacting | exhausting | exigent | feudal | forced | grievous | grinding | grueling | hampering | hard-earned | hard-fought | harrowing | harsh | heavy | hefty | Herculean | high-handed | humid | ill-ventilated | impedimental | impeding | impeditive | imperative | imperial | imperious | incumbent | intolerable | irksome | killing | labored | laborious | lordly | lumpish | magisterial | magistral | massive | masterful | miserable | monocratic | muggy | onerous | operose | overbearing | overburdensome | overpowering | overruling | overwhelming | painful | peremptory | plaguey | punishing | racking | repressive | severe | somber | sticky | stifling | strained | strenuous | strict | stuffy | suffocating | sultry | superincumbent | suppressive | taxing | toilsome | tough | troublesome | trying | tyrannical | tyrannous | unbearable | uncomfortable | unendurable | unvented | unventilated | unwieldy | uphill | vexatious | wearing | wearisome | wearying | weighty | windless | wretched See Also | Oppressive In Webster's Dictionary \Op*press"ive\, a. [Cf. F. oppressif.]
1. Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or
harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of
service; an oppressive game law. --Macaulay.
2. Using oppression; tyrannical; as, oppressive authority or
commands.
3. Heavy; overpowering; hard to be borne; as, oppressive
grief or woe.
To ease the soul of one oppressive weight. --Pope.
-- {Op*press"ive*ly}, adv. -- {Op*press"ive*ness}, n.
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