Oppressive Synonyms and Antonyms

ə-prĕsĭv
Weighing on the senses or spirits
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. suffocating
  2. stifling
  3. confining
  4. depressing
Difficult to cope with; causing hardship or depressed spirits:
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. burdensome

Words Related to Oppressive

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Oppressive Sentence Examples

  • The heat of summer is most oppressive.

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

  • Over all is the sagging roof of an oppressive yet inherently weak government.

  • Even in the desert the heat had not been so oppressive... and one day it had reached over a hundred.

  • He was defeated by a combination of the Kossuthists, Andrássy Liberals and Clerical People's party, the 30 Croatian deputies, whose vote might have turned the election, abstaining on Dr Wekerle promising them to deliver Croatia from the oppressive rule of the ban, Baron Rauch.

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