What is another word for oppressive?
1015 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ əpɹˈɛsɪv], [ əpɹˈɛsɪv], [ ə_p_ɹ_ˈɛ_s_ɪ_v]Table of Contents
Similar words for oppressive:
- airless (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- black (adjective)
- bleak (adjective)
- bossy (adjective)
- burdensome (adjective)
- cheerless (adjective)
- cumbersome (adjective)
- demanding (adjective)
- depressing (adjective)
- dictatorial (adjective)
- difficult (adjective)
- discouraging (adjective)
- dismal (adjective)
- dreary (adjective)
- exacting (adjective)
- funereal (adjective)
- gloomy (adjective)
- grievous (adjective)
- heavy (adjective)
- heavy-handed (adjective)
- heightened (adjective)
- high-handed (adjective)
- hopeless (adjective)
- hot and humid (adjective)
- humid (adjective)
- imperious (adjective)
- insupportable (adjective)
- muggy (adjective)
- onerous (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- overbearing (adjective)
- overcast (adjective)
- overwhelming, repressive (adjective)
- painful (adjective)
- rigorous (adjective)
- sad (adjective)
- slavish (adjective)
- stiff (adjective)
- strict (adjective)
- sultry (adjective)
- sweltering (adjective)
- taxing (adjective)
- totalitarian (adjective)
- tough (adjective)
- troublesome (adjective)
- trying (adjective)
- tyrannical (adjective)
- unbearable (adjective)
- unendurable (adjective)
- unhappy (adjective)
- unmitigated (adjective)
- unsufferable (adjective)
- unsupportable (adjective)
- domineering (noun)
- oppressive (noun)
- unfair (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Oppressive:
adj.
• airless (adjective) • all (adjective) • black (adjective) • bleak (adjective)- un promising,
- un-promising,
- drearest,
- somber,
- more unpromising,
- hopeless,
- dis heartening,
- drearer,
- most unpromising,
- dis-heartening,
- most disheartening,
- more disheartening.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- ter,
- te,
- in-tensive,
- in tensive.
- re quired,
- most compulsatory,
- over weening,
- over-weening,
- overweening,
- re-quired,
- more compulsatory.
- more headache,
- most headache,
- over-taxing,
- more plodding,
- most overtaxing,
- most plodding,
- more overtaxing,
- galling,
- most embittering,
- over taxing,
- more embittering.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- un-bearable,
- un surpassable,
- un acceptable,
- un bearable,
- un-surpassable,
- un-acceptable,
- in admissible,
- in-sufferable,
- in sufferable,
- in-admissible.
- 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.
n.
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•
- disturbing,
- alarming,
- serious,
- tense,
- worrying,
- distressing,
- grave,
- anxious.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
• 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:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
tyrannical.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
abusive, burdensome, coercive, cruel, despotic, exploitative, ferocious, high-voltage, improper, iniquitous, onerous, oppressed, perverse, punitive, repressed, restrictive, undue, high-pressure, law-enforcement.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
brutal, excessive, heavy-handed, high-handed, repressive, suppressive, unfair, unjust.
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Adjective
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