Oppressive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Difficult to bear; burdensome: oppressive laws.
  • adj. Exercising power arbitrarily and often unjustly; tyrannical.
  • adj. Weighing heavily on the senses or spirit: oppressive weather. See Synonyms at burdensome.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Burdensome or difficult to bear.
  • adj. Tyrannical or exercising unjust power.
  • adj. Weighing heavily on the spirit; intense, or overwhelming
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh
  • adj. Using oppression; tyrannical.
  • adj. Heavy; overpowering; hard to be borne; creating a sense of heavy burden.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe: as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service.
  • Given or inclined to oppression; tyrannical: as, an oppressive government.
  • Heavy; overpowering; overwhelming; burdensome; causing discomfort or uneasiness: as, oppressive grief or woe.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. weighing heavily on the senses or spirit
  • adj. marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior
    • Equivalent
    heavy    domineering   
    Cross Reference
    closed   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    tyrannical    heavy    overpowering    humid    close   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Progressive    aggressive    depressive    excessive    expressive   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    unjust    unpleasant    harsh    tyrannical    intolerable   
     
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