Definition for Oppressive:

• Heavy; overpowering; hard to be borne; as, oppressive grief or woe.

Synonyms for Oppressive:

• adj.

  •airless (adjective)
  • unventilated.
  •black (adjective)
  • depressive,
  • sombre.
  •bossy (adjective)
  • iron-handed.
  •depressing (adjective)
  • bleak.
  •difficult (adjective)
  • adverse,
  • cantankerous,
  • complex,
  • complicated,
  • contrary,
  • cumbersome,
  • difficult,
  • finicky,
  • formidable,
  • fussy,
  • grinding,
  • hard,
  • knotty,
  • laborious,
  • onerous,
  • rough,
  • rugged,
  • strenuous,
  • stressful,
  • thorny,
  • ticklish,
  • tight,
  • toilsome,
  • tough,
  • tricky,
  • uphill,
  • wearing,
  • wearisome,
  • wearying,
  • arduous,
  • bothersome,
  • burdensome,
  • demanding,
  • harsh,
  • severe,
  • troublesome,
  • trying.
  •effortful (adjective)
  • effortful.
  •funereal (adjective)
  • funereal.
  •heavy (adjective)
  • dense,
  • gravitational,
  • heavy,
  • leaden,
  • massive,
  • ponderous,
  • pressing,
  • weighty.
  •hopeless (adjective)
  • black.
  •hot and humid (adjective)
  • airless,
  • close,
  • muggy,
  • overpowering,
  • steam bath,
  • steamy,
  • sticky,
  • stifling,
  • stuffy,
  • suffocating,
  • sultry,
  • torrid,
  • sweat box.
  •offensive (adjective)
  • outrageous.
  •overcast (adjective)
  • overcast.
  •overwhelming, repressive (adjective)
  • backbreaking,
  • bleak,
  • brutal,
  • burdensome,
  • confining,
  • cruel,
  • demanding,
  • depressing,
  • depressive,
  • despotic,
  • dictatorial,
  • discouraging,
  • disheartening,
  • dismal,
  • dispiriting,
  • exacting,
  • exigent,
  • gloomy,
  • grievous,
  • grinding,
  • harsh,
  • headache,
  • heavy,
  • heavy-handed,
  • hefty,
  • inhuman,
  • mean,
  • onerous,
  • overbearing,
  • severe,
  • somber,
  • superincumbent,
  • taxing,
  • tough,
  • troublesome,
  • tyrannical,
  • unjust,
  • weighty,
  • ironhanded,
  • rough going.
  •painful (adjective)
  • aching,
  • aggravating,
  • agonizing,
  • annoying,
  • arduous,
  • biting,
  • bitter,
  • bothersome,
  • burdensome,
  • chafing,
  • cruel,
  • crushing,
  • disagreeable,
  • distressful,
  • excruciating,
  • grievous,
  • grueling,
  • harrowing,
  • horrendous,
  • hurtful,
  • inflaming,
  • insufferable,
  • irritating,
  • miserable,
  • odious,
  • offensive,
  • painful,
  • piercing,
  • smarting,
  • sore,
  • stabbing,
  • stinging,
  • throbbing,
  • troublesome,
  • trying,
  • unbearable,
  • uncomfortable,
  • unpleasant,
  • withering,
  • woeful,
  • wrenching,
  • Besetting,
  • Gnawing,
  • Irksome,
  • tormenting,
  • Cramping,
  • anguishing,
  • acute,
  • cutting,
  • severe,
  • torturing.
  •servile (adjective)
  • slavish.
  •severe (adjective)
  • abrupt,
  • acerbic,
  • acrimonious,
  • acute,
  • ascetic,
  • astringent,
  • austere,
  • authoritarian,
  • basic,
  • bleak,
  • blunt,
  • brisk,
  • brusque,
  • caustic,
  • censorious,
  • chilly,
  • cool,
  • correct,
  • crisp,
  • critical,
  • curt,
  • cutting,
  • demanding,
  • disciplined,
  • dour,
  • draconian,
  • dry,
  • exacting,
  • flinty,
  • frosty,
  • fundamental,
  • grim,
  • gruff,
  • harsh,
  • hidebound,
  • icy,
  • imperial,
  • inflexible,
  • intense,
  • intolerant,
  • keen,
  • lean,
  • meticulous,
  • obdurate,
  • obstinate,
  • piquant,
  • precise,
  • prudish,
  • puritanical,
  • raw,
  • relentless,
  • rigid,
  • rigorous,
  • severe,
  • sharp,
  • short,
  • spare,
  • spartan,
  • stark,
  • stern,
  • stiff-necked,
  • strict,
  • stringent,
  • tart,
  • unbending,
  • uncompromising,
  • strait-laced.
  •tyrannical (adjective)
  • arrogant,
  • autocratic,
  • despotic,
  • deterministic,
  • dictatorial,
  • discretionary,
  • domineering,
  • heavy-handed,
  • overbearing,
  • peremptory,
  • totalitarian,
  • tyrannical,
  • tyrannous,
  • Ogreish,
  • draconian.

• n.

  •
  • distressing,
  • disturbing,
  • grave,
  • serious,
  • worrying.
  •
  • boiling,
  • close,
  • confining,
  • depressing,
  • dismal,
  • hot,
  • scorching,
  • stifling,
  • tropical,
  • warm.
  •
  • backbreaking,
  • effortful,
  • exigent,
  • taxing.
  •oppressive (noun)
  • domineering,
  • heavy,
  • tyrannical,
  • tyrannous.
  •unfair (noun)
  • arbitrary,
  • unjust.

• v.

  •close (verb)
  • sultry.

• Other synonyms:

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

• adj.

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

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    agreeable, airy, balmy, bearable, calm, clement, cold, comfortable, cool, cozy, easy, encouraging, endurable, fair, fresh, friendly, frigid, genial, gentle, hospitable, humane, just, lenient, light, luxurious, merciful, mild, moderate, painless, peaceful, pleasant, propitious, relaxing, reposeful, restful, snug, soft, temperate, tolerable, Relieving.