'oppressive' definitions:
Definition of 'oppressive'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Weighing heavily on the senses or spirit; "the atmosphere was oppressive"; "oppressive sorrows"
adjective
Marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior; "the oppressive government"; "oppressive laws"; "a tyrannical parent"; "tyrannous disregard of human rights" [syn: oppressive, tyrannical, tyrannous]
Synonyms of 'oppressive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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