Synonyms for oppressed
op·pressed

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1. laden, oppressedadjective

   burdened psychologically or mentally

   "laden with grief"; "oppressed by a sense of failure"

   Synonyms:
   laden, loaded, ladened

   Antonyms:
   unburdened

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1. down-trodden

   Submitted by rinat on September 22, 2019  

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1. List of paraphrases for "oppressed":

   downtrodden, suppressed, repressed, underdog, persecuted

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1. Lord Acton:

   It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

2. Abdul Ahad:

   I was jailed three times for trying to leave, i wanted to come and see Islamic State for Abdul Ahad Rustam Nazarov... and to help those being oppressed by the Syrian government.

3. Nadine Gordimer:

   Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

4. Burgess Owens:

   Im so against anybody portraying that generation that didso much to raise such a great group of kidsto be looked at as hopeless and hapless, they would beput down and disgusted to be looked at as oppressed when we were victors.

5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

   Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.