What is another word for oppressive?

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backbreaking, effortful, sad, ruthless, absolute, 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, 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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, unaired, unventilated, oppressive, sombre, doleful, depressive, sombrer, un promising, un-promising, drearest, somber, more unpromising, hopeless, dis heartening, drearer, most unpromising, dis-heartening, most disheartening, more disheartening, iron-handed, super incumbent, more superincumbent, most crushing, more crushing, most superincumbent, super-incumbent, more carking, more difficult, most carking, 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, 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, most backbreaker, more backbreaker, importunate, most daunting, more daunting, more saddening, de pressing, bleak, most saddening, de-pressing, 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, 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, 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, in auspicious, inauspicious, in-auspicious, un fortunate, un-fortunate, dis-agreeable, in pits, dis agreeable, un-interesting, un eventful, un-eventful, un interesting, 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, dirgelike, most acherontic, gloomy, most acheronian, more acheronian, more acherontic, 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, Acroamatic, massive, pressing, gravitational, sodden, Heightened, dense, leaden, ponderous, heavy handed, heavyhanded, ter, te, in-tensive, in tensive, high-handed, high handed, black, torrid, stuffy, steamy, stifling, sweat box, suffocating, close, steam bath, muggy, overpowering, most irriguous, more irriguous, mucky, re quired, most compulsatory, over weening, over-weening, overweening, re-quired, more compulsatory, in supportable, in-supportable, more dampish, most dampish, more headache, most headache, over-taxing, more plodding, most overtaxing, most plodding, more overtaxing, galling, most embittering, over taxing, more embittering, 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, clouded over, not fair, not clear, cruel, 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, 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, un-satisfactory, more discomposing, tearjerking, dis composing, un satisfactory, tear jerking, tearful, dis-composing, most discomposing, un-inspired, un inspired, de-pendent, sub missive, un-original, un original, groveling, de pendent, imitative, bondest, un-duer, un-conscionable, un due, un duest, un-duest, un-due, ex act, un conscionable, ex-act, in-ordinate, 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, sweltrier, more smothering, most smothering, red hot, most suffocating, sweltriest, sweltry, REDHOT, more suffocating, more stewing, most stewing, most sapping, more stressful, most enervating, more enervating, Sapping, most stressful, more sapping, 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, no piece of cake, in tractable, un-yielding, up hill, up-hill, no piece cake, un yielding, in-tractable, most vexing, un-governable, more murder, in festive, most harassing, Harassing, in-festive, more infestive, most murder, more harassing, most infestive, more vexing, more exasperating, ex asperating, most exasperating, pro vocative, pro-vocative, more aggravating, most aggravating, ex-asperating, Ogreish, arrogant, discretionary, autocratic, deterministic, un-bearable, un surpassable, un acceptable, un bearable, un-surpassable, un-acceptable, in admissible, in-sufferable, in sufferable, in-admissible, un endurable, un-endurable, 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, 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, un sufferable, un-sufferable, un supportable, un-supportable, disturbing, alarming, serious, tense, worrying, distressing, grave, anxious, domineering, tyrannical, tyrannous, unequal, biased, unjustified, unreasonable, wrongful, partial, unfair, one-sided, backbreaking

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