Oppressive

What do we mean by oppressive?

Exercising power arbitrarily and often unjustly; tyrannical. adjective

Difficult to cope with; causing hardship or depressed spirits: synonym: burdensome. adjective

Hot and humid; sweltering. adjective

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.

Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh adjective

Using oppression; tyrannical. adjective

Heavy; overpowering; hard to be borne; creating a sense of heavy burden. adjective

Burdensome or difficult to bear. adjective

Tyrannical or exercising unjust power. adjective

Weighing heavily on the spirit; intense, or overwhelming adjective

Weighing heavily on the senses or spirit adjective

Marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior adjective

Burdensome or difficult to bear.

Tyrannical or exercising unjust power.

Weighing heavily on the spirit; intense, or overwhelming

Hot and humid of the weather.

An academic euphemism for first world inequality of outcome; an exaggeration that by comparison minimizes actual suffering, bondage, torture, and totalitarian control. Urban Dictionary

1. Dominating harshly: Imposing a harsh or cruel form of domination. 2. Highly stressful: Exerting a worrying, troubling, or burdensome pressure on somebody. 3. Stifling: So hot and humid as to make people feel tired, irritable, or sluggish. Urban Dictionary

1. An extremely unbalanced system of power in which a group of people is being discriminated against; typically found in dictatorships such as Nazi Germany or North Korea. Examples of oppression include slavery in the United States, the Jewish genocide carried out by Adolf Hitler, and the treatment of every single person in Soviet Russia except for its leader. Oppression can have serious consequences, but, most importantly, it can lead to enormous suffering and immense loss of life. The truly disgusting things that oppression has lead to are to be learned from. Don’t live in the past, but learn from it. 2. Someone saying a mean word on the internet. Urban Dictionary

Synonym with a country having rich oil fields. If a country is rich in oil, then it is by default also oppressed and in need of liberation. Urban Dictionary

The unjust keeping down of others by force... in today's and past societies people were opressed by RACISM as well as violence. One of the main factors of oppresion is human nature and it's regulation...? Urban Dictionary

Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable, doesn't mean it has to change. Urban Dictionary

An act or instance of oppressing or subjecting to cruel or unjust impositions or restraints. Urban Dictionary

Adjective form of oppression Urban Dictionary

Noun: A guy/gal who recently got in a pretty bad state. The manner in which the guy got in such a state is often hilarious. Verb: The act of a person/organization which is the cause for the affected person being in such a state. The person/organization is usually unjust or does it as a joke. Used by some of the south Indians in Chennai, India. Urban Dictionary

Straight people Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to oppressive:
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Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word oppressive:
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Words that rhyme with oppressive:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe oppressive:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective oppressive:
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