Synonyms for Oppressive:

• adj.

  •airless (adjective)
  • unaired,
  • unventilated.
  •all (adjective)
  • oppressive.
  •black (adjective)
  • sombre,
  • doleful,
  • depressive,
  • sombrer.
  •bleak (adjective)
  • un promising,
  • un-promising,
  • drearest,
  • somber,
  • more unpromising,
  • hopeless,
  • dis heartening,
  • drearer,
  • most unpromising,
  • dis-heartening,
  • most disheartening,
  • more disheartening.
  •bossy (adjective)
  • iron-handed.
  •burdensome (adjective)
  • super incumbent,
  • more superincumbent,
  • most crushing,
  • more crushing,
  • most superincumbent,
  • super-incumbent,
  • more carking,
  • more difficult,
  • most carking.
  •cheerless (adjective)
  • in the dumps,
  • jarring,
  • mopey,
  • tenebrific,
  • woebegone,
  • de solate,
  • de pressed,
  • most dejecting,
  • de-pressed,
  • mopier,
  • un-comfortable,
  • in dumps,
  • most drearisome,
  • drab,
  • more dejecting,
  • draggiest,
  • mopiest,
  • more drearisome,
  • de-solate,
  • draggier,
  • un comfortable.
  •cumbersome (adjective)
  • un-wieldiest,
  • in commodious,
  • most clunker,
  • more clunker,
  • un wieldy,
  • most clunking,
  • embarrassing,
  • un-handy,
  • inconvenient,
  • clunkier,
  • un-handiest,
  • un manageable,
  • un handiest,
  • un handier,
  • un-wieldier,
  • in convenient,
  • unhandiest,
  • un-wieldy,
  • un-manageable,
  • un handy,
  • un wieldier,
  • unhandier,
  • clunkiest,
  • most galumphing,
  • more clunking,
  • in-commodious,
  • un wieldiest,
  • un-handier,
  • in-convenient,
  • more galumphing.
  •demanding (adjective)
  • most backbreaker,
  • more backbreaker,
  • importunate.
  •depressing (adjective)
  • most daunting,
  • more daunting,
  • more saddening,
  • de pressing,
  • bleak,
  • most saddening,
  • de-pressing.
  •dictatorial (adjective)
  • most crack the whip,
  • more crack the whip,
  • more crack-the-whip,
  • most dictative,
  • un-limited,
  • un restricted,
  • stern,
  • un limited,
  • peremptory,
  • un-restricted,
  • most crack-the-whip,
  • more dictative,
  • doctrinaire.
  •difficult (adjective)
  • arduous,
  • rough,
  • strenuous,
  • formidable,
  • wearing,
  • cantankerous,
  • thorny,
  • adverse,
  • harsh,
  • finicky,
  • wearying,
  • tricky,
  • difficult,
  • fussy,
  • bothersome,
  • grinding,
  • toilsome,
  • knotty,
  • hard,
  • wearisome,
  • contrary,
  • rugged,
  • laborious,
  • complicated,
  • uphill,
  • severe,
  • tight,
  • complex,
  • ticklish.
  •discouraging (adjective)
  • more dismaying,
  • unpropitious,
  • more repressing,
  • dis-maying,
  • most dismaying,
  • in-opportune,
  • offputting,
  • most off putting,
  • dis appointing,
  • most hindering,
  • un propitious,
  • more dampening,
  • re pressing,
  • most dissuading,
  • more off-putting,
  • off putting,
  • dis-advantageous,
  • in opportune,
  • most offputting,
  • dis-appointing,
  • more off putting,
  • dis maying,
  • dis advantageous,
  • most off-putting,
  • more dissuading,
  • re-pressing,
  • most repressing,
  • more hindering,
  • un-propitious,
  • most dampening,
  • more offputting,
  • un-favorable,
  • un favorable.
  •dismal (adjective)
  • in auspicious,
  • inauspicious,
  • in-auspicious,
  • un fortunate,
  • un-fortunate,
  • dis-agreeable,
  • in pits,
  • dis agreeable.
  •dreary (adjective)
  • un-interesting,
  • un eventful,
  • un-eventful,
  • un interesting.
  •exacting (adjective)
  • more nit picking,
  • ex-acting,
  • hyper critical,
  • most nit picking,
  • un sparing,
  • nit picking,
  • ex acting,
  • most nit-picking,
  • by book,
  • un-sparing,
  • more nit-picking,
  • hyper-critical,
  • unsparing.
  •funereal (adjective)
  • funereal,
  • dirgelike.
  •gloomy (adjective)
  • most acherontic,
  • gloomy,
  • most acheronian,
  • more acheronian,
  • more acherontic.
  •grievous (adjective)
  • dis-quieting,
  • most heart rending,
  • more heart-rending,
  • in tolerable,
  • more heart rending,
  • most wounding,
  • dis quieting,
  • up-setting,
  • most afflicting,
  • heart rending,
  • most heart-rending,
  • egregious,
  • in-tolerable,
  • up setting,
  • more afflicting,
  • more wounding.
  •heavy (adjective)
  • Acroamatic,
  • massive,
  • pressing,
  • gravitational,
  • sodden,
  • Heightened,
  • dense,
  • leaden,
  • ponderous.
  •heavy-handed (adjective)
  • heavy handed,
  • heavyhanded.
  •heightened (adjective)
  • ter,
  • te,
  • in-tensive,
  • in tensive.
  •high-handed (adjective)
  • high-handed,
  • high handed.
  •hopeless (adjective)
  • black.
  •hot and humid (adjective)
  • torrid,
  • stuffy,
  • steamy,
  • stifling,
  • sweat box,
  • suffocating,
  • close,
  • steam bath,
  • muggy,
  • overpowering.
  •humid (adjective)
  • most irriguous,
  • more irriguous,
  • mucky.
  •imperious (adjective)
  • re quired,
  • most compulsatory,
  • over weening,
  • over-weening,
  • overweening,
  • re-quired,
  • more compulsatory.
  •insupportable (adjective)
  • in supportable,
  • in-supportable.
  •muggy (adjective)
  • more dampish,
  • most dampish.
  •onerous (adjective)
  • more headache,
  • most headache,
  • over-taxing,
  • more plodding,
  • most overtaxing,
  • most plodding,
  • more overtaxing,
  • galling,
  • most embittering,
  • over taxing,
  • more embittering.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • galumphing,
  • no nonsense,
  • sticky,
  • draconian,
  • paternalistic,
  • fascistic,
  • sultry,
  • onerous,
  • nowhere,
  • grievous,
  • overtaxing,
  • heavy-handed,
  • hardboiled,
  • out and out,
  • straight out,
  • exacting,
  • Irriguous,
  • one-party,
  • Drearisome,
  • nit-picking,
  • trying,
  • heart-rending,
  • sweltering,
  • long-faced,
  • weighty,
  • overbearing,
  • in blue funk,
  • unsufferable,
  • sniffy,
  • draggy,
  • totalistic,
  • insupportable,
  • let-down,
  • superincumbent,
  • head ache,
  • down in mouth,
  • Enervative,
  • Stickling,
  • Infestive,
  • unmixed,
  • highhanded,
  • stressful,
  • totalitarian,
  • ho-hum,
  • unmitigated,
  • bummed out,
  • unsupportable,
  • unabated,
  • despotic,
  • acheronian,
  • burdensome,
  • mirthless,
  • hohum,
  • in the pits,
  • Unhandy,
  • dampish,
  • dictatorial,
  • ironfisted,
  • backbreaker,
  • by the book,
  • strict,
  • claustrophobic,
  • clunker,
  • clear cut,
  • exigent,
  • dictative,
  • off-putting,
  • unbearable,
  • tough,
  • unalleviated,
  • ironhanded,
  • clunky,
  • undemocratic,
  • humid,
  • Compulsatory,
  • stiff,
  • acherontic,
  • bossy,
  • crack the whip,
  • unpromising,
  • Bonder,
  • depressing,
  • throwing weight around,
  • taxing,
  • in pain,
  • dismal,
  • a bit much,
  • uncool,
  • very severe,
  • drear,
  • heavy,
  • imperious,
  • troublesome,
  • dead set,
  • tiresome,
  • down and out,
  • Iron-fisted,
  • crack-the-whip,
  • discouraging,
  • demanding,
  • dragger,
  • unendurable,
  • cumbersome,
  • Carking,
  • ho hum,
  • cheerless,
  • dreary,
  • rigorous,
  • boresome,
  • airless.
  •overbearing (adjective)
  • sniffiest,
  • most high and mighty,
  • more high-and-mighty,
  • up-pity,
  • Over-bearing,
  • over bearing,
  • preponderant,
  • high-and-mighty,
  • para mount,
  • in solent,
  • up pity,
  • in-solent,
  • pre dominant,
  • para-mount,
  • pre-dominant,
  • more high and mighty,
  • sniffier.
  •overcast (adjective)
  • clouded over,
  • not fair,
  • not clear.
  •overwhelming, repressive (adjective)
  • cruel.
  •painful (adjective)
  • Cramping,
  • acute,
  • piercing,
  • Besetting,
  • irritating,
  • throbbing,
  • Torturing.,
  • aching,
  • miserable,
  • offensive,
  • inflaming,
  • withering,
  • wrenching,
  • distressful,
  • excruciating,
  • insufferable,
  • annoying,
  • sore,
  • painful,
  • bitter,
  • torturing,
  • crushing,
  • stabbing,
  • chafing,
  • disagreeable,
  • cutting,
  • smarting,
  • tormenting,
  • woeful,
  • stinging,
  • uncomfortable,
  • harrowing,
  • biting,
  • agonizing,
  • anguishing,
  • aggravating,
  • unpleasant,
  • grueling,
  • hurtful,
  • odious,
  • horrendous,
  • Gnawing,
  • Irksome.
  •rigorous (adjective)
  • un permissive,
  • in-clement,
  • de finite,
  • in flexible,
  • in-flexible,
  • un compromising,
  • unpermissive,
  • more unpermissive,
  • in clement,
  • in-temperate,
  • un-compromising,
  • in temperate,
  • most unpermissive,
  • de-finite,
  • un-permissive.
  •sad (adjective)
  • un-satisfactory,
  • more discomposing,
  • tearjerking,
  • dis composing,
  • un satisfactory,
  • tear jerking,
  • tearful,
  • dis-composing,
  • most discomposing.
  •slavish (adjective)
  • un-inspired,
  • un inspired,
  • de-pendent,
  • sub missive,
  • un-original,
  • un original,
  • groveling,
  • de pendent,
  • imitative,
  • bondest.
  •stiff (adjective)
  • un-duer,
  • un-conscionable,
  • un due,
  • un duest,
  • un-duest,
  • un-due,
  • ex act,
  • un conscionable,
  • ex-act,
  • in-ordinate.
  •strict (adjective)
  • most iron fisted,
  • more iron-fisted,
  • more ironfisted,
  • most ironfisted,
  • up tight,
  • nononsense,
  • more iron fisted,
  • most stickling,
  • iron fisted,
  • up-tight,
  • most iron-fisted,
  • more stickling,
  • hard boiled.
  •sultry (adjective)
  • sweltrier,
  • more smothering,
  • most smothering,
  • red hot,
  • most suffocating,
  • sweltriest,
  • sweltry,
  • REDHOT,
  • more suffocating.
  •sweltering (adjective)
  • more stewing,
  • most stewing.
  •taxing (adjective)
  • most sapping,
  • more stressful,
  • most enervating,
  • more enervating,
  • Sapping,
  • most stressful,
  • more sapping.
  •totalitarian (adjective)
  • oneparty,
  • more oneparty,
  • un democratic,
  • more one party,
  • most one party,
  • more one-party,
  • most one-party,
  • most nazi,
  • un-democratic,
  • most communist,
  • most undemocratic,
  • more nazi,
  • more communist,
  • one party,
  • most fascistic,
  • most oneparty,
  • more fascistic,
  • more undemocratic,
  • more totalistic,
  • most totalistic.
  •tough (adjective)
  • no piece of cake,
  • in tractable,
  • un-yielding,
  • up hill,
  • up-hill,
  • no piece cake,
  • un yielding,
  • in-tractable.
  •troublesome (adjective)
  • most vexing,
  • un-governable,
  • more murder,
  • in festive,
  • most harassing,
  • Harassing,
  • in-festive,
  • more infestive,
  • most murder,
  • more harassing,
  • most infestive,
  • more vexing.
  •trying (adjective)
  • more exasperating,
  • ex asperating,
  • most exasperating,
  • pro vocative,
  • pro-vocative,
  • more aggravating,
  • most aggravating,
  • ex-asperating.
  •tyrannical (adjective)
  • Ogreish,
  • arrogant,
  • discretionary,
  • autocratic,
  • deterministic.
  •unbearable (adjective)
  • un-bearable,
  • un surpassable,
  • un acceptable,
  • un bearable,
  • un-surpassable,
  • un-acceptable,
  • in admissible,
  • in-sufferable,
  • in sufferable,
  • in-admissible.
  •unendurable (adjective)
  • un endurable,
  • un-endurable.
  •unhappy (adjective)
  • un happiest,
  • in a blue funk,
  • down out,
  • most dragged,
  • more letdown,
  • more hurting,
  • more ripped,
  • most bleeding,
  • most let down,
  • more dragged,
  • un happier,
  • most longfaced,
  • de-stroyed,
  • more let-down,
  • more mirthless,
  • most mirthless,
  • de stroyed,
  • more longfaced,
  • un-happy,
  • most let-down,
  • longfaced,
  • un-happier,
  • down the mouth,
  • more bleeding,
  • most long faced,
  • heavy hearted,
  • most saddened,
  • most ripped,
  • most long-faced,
  • most letdown,
  • more let down,
  • more long faced,
  • more long-faced,
  • down mouth,
  • un happy,
  • long faced,
  • un-happiest,
  • more saddened.
  •unmitigated (adjective)
  • out righter,
  • clearcut,
  • un abridged,
  • most unalleviated,
  • un alleviated,
  • most unmixed,
  • un-adulterated,
  • un mitigated,
  • more unalleviated,
  • un diluted,
  • un-mitigated,
  • out right,
  • un-alleviated,
  • un broken,
  • straightout,
  • un-abridged,
  • more unmixed,
  • most unbroken,
  • un qualified,
  • most unabated,
  • out-righter,
  • more unbroken,
  • more unabated,
  • un mixed,
  • out rightest,
  • un-broken,
  • un-abated,
  • out-right,
  • un-qualified,
  • un adulterated,
  • un abated,
  • un-mixed,
  • un-diluted.
  •unsufferable (adjective)
  • un sufferable,
  • un-sufferable.
  •unsupportable (adjective)
  • un supportable,
  • un-supportable.

• n.

  •
  • disturbing,
  • alarming,
  • serious,
  • tense,
  • worrying,
  • distressing,
  • grave,
  • anxious.
  •domineering (noun)
  • domineering.
  •oppressive (noun)
  • tyrannical,
  • tyrannous.
  •unfair (noun)
  • unequal,
  • biased,
  • unjustified,
  • unreasonable,
  • wrongful,
  • partial,
  • unfair,
  • one-sided.

• v.

  •Other relevant words: (verb)
  • nature,
  • property.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • backbreaking,
  • effortful.
  •
  • sad,
  • ruthless,
  • absolute.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • arrant,
  • compelling,
  • feudal,
  • canicular,
  • coarsely,
  • major,
  • awful,
  • closed,
  • unfortunate,
  • rigorously,
  • cumbrous,
  • considerable,
  • gloomily,
  • calamitous,
  • confined,
  • laboriously,
  • coercive,
  • slavish,
  • despotically,
  • incumbent,
  • brutally,
  • lordly,
  • formally,
  • fetid,
  • joyless,
  • indurate,
  • complete,
  • mightily,
  • confine,
  • damp,
  • unyieldingly,
  • swingeing,
  • intolerable,
  • depressingly,
  • brutish,
  • dispassionate,
  • unjust,
  • dismally,
  • careful,
  • overcast,
  • painstaking,
  • restrain,
  • haughty,
  • down,
  • unreduced,
  • utter,
  • worrisome,
  • distressingly,
  • foetid,
  • melting,
  • laboured,
  • stony,
  • intractable,
  • magisterial,
  • submerge,
  • labor,
  • heavily,
  • DEADWEIGHT CARGO,
  • imperative,
  • pushy,
  • minute,
  • inequitable,
  • excessive,
  • fascist,
  • inclement,
  • securely,
  • sullen,
  • warm,
  • depressant,
  • merciless,
  • solidly,
  • oppressively,
  • jiffy,
  • lamentable,
  • malevolent,
  • rough going,
  • officious,
  • roughly,
  • hidden,
  • dispiriting,
  • lugubrious,
  • tenacious,
  • unsentimental,
  • juncture,
  • obdurately,
  • uncompassionate,
  • illiberal,
  • Hard-headed,
  • boiling,
  • atrocious,
  • mean,
  • desperate,
  • dictatorially,
  • upsetting,
  • matter,
  • lowering,
  • deeply,
  • profoundly,
  • hardly,
  • drudgery,
  • Encumbering,
  • absolutist,
  • breathless,
  • exorbitant,
  • enormous,
  • tediousness,
  • somberly,
  • rigidly,
  • reticent,
  • racking,
  • concise,
  • viscous,
  • toughly,
  • broiling,
  • thorough,
  • frowsty,
  • aggrieved,
  • headache,
  • hard-nosed,
  • contain,
  • Overruling,
  • flash,
  • closely,
  • insensitive,
  • hard-fought,
  • powerfully,
  • bleakly,
  • mildewy,
  • positive,
  • gravely,
  • penetrating,
  • badly,
  • tedium,
  • mouldy,
  • arduously,
  • Operose,
  • boredom,
  • fiercely,
  • unjustly,
  • unyielding,
  • stiffly,
  • gruelling,
  • suppressive,
  • unqualified,
  • punitive,
  • lumpish,
  • categorical,
  • invalided,
  • unhappy,
  • Magistral,
  • stingy,
  • outright,
  • exhausting,
  • wretched,
  • nazi,
  • hour,
  • poignant,
  • Overburdensome,
  • frowzy,
  • plaguey,
  • daunting,
  • seriously,
  • wet,
  • disastrous,
  • hard-earned,
  • tyrannically,
  • sternly,
  • hard-boiled,
  • steaming,
  • tragical,
  • tightly,
  • undiluted,
  • immense,
  • overwhelming,
  • inquisitorial,
  • Impeditive,
  • unsympathetically,
  • out-and-out,
  • powerful,
  • total,
  • numbing,
  • hardhanded,
  • suppress,
  • flinty,
  • true,
  • ungracefully,
  • sheer,
  • searching,
  • troubling,
  • fastidious,
  • bit,
  • dolorous,
  • importance,
  • monocratic,
  • huge,
  • aristocratic,
  • forced,
  • in low spirits,
  • Desolating,
  • unalloyed,
  • dull,
  • absolutistic,
  • untempered,
  • monotony,
  • callous,
  • sunny,
  • reeking,
  • work,
  • Precisian,
  • devastating,
  • harshly,
  • Acidly,
  • toil,
  • hot,
  • monolithic,
  • authoritative,
  • demandingly,
  • extortionate,
  • magnitude,
  • import,
  • plain,
  • frowsy,
  • consuming,
  • dingy,
  • unfeeling,
  • grey,
  • musty,
  • violently,
  • pitiless,
  • Hard-hearted,
  • approximately,
  • Unlessened,
  • impeding,
  • pure,
  • tragic,
  • confining,
  • downright,
  • choking,
  • heartless,
  • drastic,
  • exigently,
  • irresistible,
  • estival,
  • inhuman,
  • time,
  • Stony-hearted,
  • perfect,
  • baking,
  • undeviating,
  • strained,
  • fusty,
  • clammy,
  • nearly,
  • firmly,
  • unhappily,
  • thick-skinned,
  • overbearingly,
  • ennui,
  • secrete,
  • unrelieved,
  • unkind,
  • severely,
  • moist,
  • pungent,
  • implacable,
  • confidential,
  • arbitrary,
  • moment,
  • lurk,
  • close quarters,
  • potently,
  • Hard-shell,
  • violent,
  • stale,
  • unsympathetic,
  • unvented,
  • depressed,
  • unmodified,
  • narrowly,
  • glowering,
  • forcefully,
  • Frouzy,
  • dark,
  • Familiar,
  • unwieldy,
  • Breezeless,
  • disheartening,
  • hefty,
  • cruelly,
  • wilting,
  • thumping,
  • undiminished,
  • parsimonious,
  • solid,
  • consummate,
  • conceal,
  • Impedimental,
  • telling,
  • regrettable,
  • immoderate,
  • Hampering,
  • thoroughgoing,
  • repressive,
  • hardbitten,
  • masterful,
  • soggy,
  • punishing,
  • malign,
  • vexatious,
  • scorching,
  • unmoderated,
  • steadfastly,
  • savage,
  • tyrannic,
  • strongly,
  • beastly,
  • outrageous,
  • strictly,
  • windless,
  • exactingly,
  • brutal,
  • unfeelingly,
  • inexorable,
  • deplorable,
  • compactly,
  • roasting,
  • tropical,
  • ruinous,
  • killing,
  • weight,
  • fierce,
  • consequence,
  • labored,
  • compact.

Paraphrases for Oppressive:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    tyrannical.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    despotic, oppressed, coercive, abusive, punitive, burdensome, onerous, iniquitous, high-pressure, repressed, restrictive, improper, ferocious, high-voltage, exploitative, perverse, cruel, undue, law-enforcement.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    repressive, suppressive, unjust, high-handed, heavy-handed, unfair, excessive, brutal.

Antonyms for Oppressive:

• adj.

  • hot and humid
    frigid, dry, cold.
  • overwhelming, repressive
    nice, kind, mild, easy, cool, Relieving, gentle.
  • Other antonyms:
    peaceful, bearable, comfortable, calm, clement, endurable, cozy, snug, friendly, pleasant, tolerable, moderate, submissive, agreeable, reposeful, luxurious, relaxing, restful, genial, hospitable, temperate.