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burdensome
Hard to bear; heavy; oppressive
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  1. Hard to bear; heavy; oppressive
  2. Of or like a burden; arduous or demanding
  3. Weighing much or hard to carry; heavy.
onerous
Burdensome; laborious
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  1. Burdensome; laborious
  2. (Law) Involving a legal obligation that equals or exceeds the benefits
  3. Troublesome or oppressive; burdensome.
harsh
Unpleasant, uncomfortable, or hostile to survival:
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  1. Unpleasant, uncomfortable, or hostile to survival:
  2. Unpleasantly coarse and rough to the touch:
  3. Severe, cruel, or exacting:
tyrannical
Characteristic of a tyrant or tyranny; despotic and oppressive:
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  1. Characteristic of a tyrant or tyranny; despotic and oppressive:
  2. (Comparable) Despotic, oppressive or authoritarian.
  3. Harsh, cruel, unjust, oppressive, etc.
stifling
Very hot or stuffy:
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  1. Very hot or stuffy:
  2. Inhibiting, stultifying, or oppressive:
  3. That stifles.
depressing
Causing especially emotional depression.
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  1. Causing especially emotional depression.
  2. Causing sadness, gloom, or dejection:
  3. Causing depression or sadness.
arduous
Using much energy; strenuous
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  1. Using much energy; strenuous
  2. Hard to traverse, climb, or surmount.
  3. Difficult to do; laborious; onerous
backbreaking
Requiring great physical exertion
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  1. Requiring great physical exertion
  2. (Figuratively) Of work, very physically tiring.
burdensome
Of or like a burden; arduous or demanding
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  1. Of or like a burden; arduous or demanding
  2. Weighing much or hard to carry; heavy.
  3. Hard to bear; heavy; oppressive
demanding
Requiring others to work hard or meet high expectations:
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  1. Requiring others to work hard or meet high expectations:
  2. Requiring much effort or attention:
  3. Making difficult or irksome demands on a person's resources, patience, energy, etc.
difficult
Not easy to endure; full of hardship or trouble; trying:
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  1. Not easy to endure; full of hardship or trouble; trying:
  2. Hard to satisfy, persuade, please, etc.
  3. Not easy to comprehend, solve, or explain:
effortful
Requiring or showing effort.
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  1. Requiring or showing effort.
exacting
Requiring precise accuracy
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  1. Requiring precise accuracy
  2. Demanding great care, patience, effort, etc.; arduous
  3. Making excessive demands; hard to satisfy.
exigent
Calling for immediate action or attention; urgent; critical
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  1. Calling for immediate action or attention; urgent; critical
  2. Having or making urgent demands; demanding:
  3. Requiring immediate action; pressing:
formidable
Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder:
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  1. Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder:
  2. Difficult to undertake, surmount, or defeat:
  3. Hard to handle or overcome
hard
Harsh or severe in effect or intention:
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  1. Harsh or severe in effect or intention:
  2. Difficult to endure; causing hardship or suffering:
  3. Marked by stubborn refusal to compromise or yield; uncompromising:
heavy
Hard to do or manage; difficult
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  1. Hard to do or manage; difficult
  2. Hard to do or accomplish; arduous:
  3. Hard to digest
laborious
Marked by or requiring long, hard work:
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  1. Marked by or requiring long, hard work:
  2. Involving or calling for much hard work; difficult
  3. Mentally difficult; painstaking
onerous
Burdensome; laborious
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  1. Burdensome; laborious
  2. Troublesome or oppressive; burdensome.
  3. (Law) Involving a legal obligation that equals or exceeds the benefits
rigorous
Characterized by or adhering to strict standards or methods; exacting and thorough:
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  1. Characterized by or adhering to strict standards or methods; exacting and thorough:
  2. Rigidly precise; thoroughly accurate or exact
  3. Harsh, severe, or demanding:
rough
Regarded as being risky, dangerous, offensive, etc., often as a result of lacking in conventional social controls
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  1. Regarded as being risky, dangerous, offensive, etc., often as a result of lacking in conventional social controls
  2. Difficult to endure or live through, especially because of harsh or inclement weather:
  3. Difficult to travel over or through:
severe
Causing great discomfort, damage, or distress:
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  1. Causing great discomfort, damage, or distress:
  2. Unsparing, harsh, or strict, as in treatment of others:
  3. Extremely difficult to perform or endure; trying:
taxing
Burdensome; wearing:
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  1. Burdensome; wearing:
  2. With respect to an experience: exhausting; draining.
tough
Difficult to endure; severe; harsh:
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  1. Difficult to endure; severe; harsh:
  2. Hard to cut or chew:
  3. Very difficult; toilsome
trying
Irritating, stressful or bothersome.
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  1. Irritating, stressful or bothersome.
  2. That tries one's patience; annoying; exasperating; irksome
  3. Difficult to endure; arduous.
weighty
Of great consequence; serious or momentous:
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  1. Of great consequence; serious or momentous:
  2. Having much weight; very heavy; ponderous
  3. Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous.
Find another word for oppressive. In this page you can discover 36 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for oppressive, like: suffocating, burdensome, onerous, harsh, tyrannical, stifling, confining, depressing, autocratic, difficult and onerous.

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  • is intended to prevent the king from collecting the money owing to him in an oppressive manner.

  • above sea-level, in which the heat is most oppressive at times and the nights are unpleasantly cold.

  • The tithe was an oppressive form of taxation, as were the various fees pp ?

  • Oppressive taxation and unblushing nepotism were Clement's great faults.

  • In March snow still lies deep in the Tsaidam passes, while Wellby found the heat oppressive in June at 16,000 ft.

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