oppressive
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- weighing heavily on the senses or spirit
- "the atmosphere was oppressive"
- "oppressive sorrows"
- marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior
- "the oppressive government"
- "oppressive laws"
Adj
- Burdensome or difficult to bear.
- Tyrannical or exercising unjust power.
- Weighing heavily on the spirit; being quite intense, excessive or overwhelming.
- Hot and humid.
Origin / Etymology
From oppress + -ive.
Synonyms
airy, arrogant, authoritarian, autocratic, big-headed, biggity, blustery, boastful, bombastic, bossy, buggish, close, cocky, coercive, commanding, conceited, controlling, demanding, despotic, dictatorial, disdainful, dominant, domineering, egotistical, entitled, flatulent, flaunting, forceful, full of oneself, grandiose, grinding, hankty, harsh, haught, haughty, haut, heavy-handed, high and mighty, high-handed, high-hat, highfalutin, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, humid, imperious, inflated, insolent, iron-fisted, iron-handed, la-di-da, monocratic, obtrusive, oppressive, ostentatious, overbearing, overweening, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, priggish, puffed up, sanctimonious, self-important, snobbish, snooty, snotty, stout, strict, stuck up, supercilious, thrasonic, thrasonical, toploftical, toplofty, tumid, turgid, tyrannical, tyrannous, uppish, uppity, uppy, upstage, vain
Scrabble Score: 17
oppressive is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordoppressive is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
oppressive is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary