Synonyms for oppressive
əˈprɛs ɪvop·pres·sive

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1. oppressiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   humid, close

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1. oppressive

   Synonyms:
   heavy, overpowering, unjust, galling, extortionate, grinding

   Antonyms:
   light, just, compassionate

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1. oppressiveadjective

   weighing heavily on the senses or spirit

   "the atmosphere was oppressive"; "oppressive sorrows"

   Synonyms:
   tyrannical, tyrannous

   Antonyms:
   light, submissive

2. oppressive, tyrannical, tyrannousadjective

   marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior

   "the oppressive government"; "oppressive laws"; "a tyrannical parent"; "tyrannous disregard of human rights"

   Synonyms:
   tyrannical, despotic, oppressive, autocratic, authoritarian, dictatorial, tyrannous, tyrannic

   Antonyms:
   submissive, light

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1. oppressiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   heavy, overwhelming, overpowering

2. oppressiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   tyrannical, cruel, severe, hard, rigorous, inhuman, grinding, galling

3. oppressiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   close, uncomfortable

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1. oppressiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   rigorous, tyrannical, extortionate, burdensome

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1. List of paraphrases for "oppressive":

   repressive, tyrannical, heavy-handed

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1. Italian President Sergio Mattarella:

   In all these years I've always tried to emphasize and to promote the need to combat the Mafia, because it is a cancer which is oppressive and which stifles everybody's freedom and reduces the possibility for the areas in which it's present to prosper and to develop.

2. Meghan McCain:

   There is an oppressive climate of judgment in public life these days. And I worry that whenever people feel censored, it breeds animosity and discontent. Not to mention that it’s downright un-American, we’re pushing people into boxes and into spaces that are sad and dangerous on both sides because we’re not listening to one another.

3. WhatsApp:

   The idea is simple: when you send a message, the only person who can read it is the person or group chat that you send that message to. No one can see inside that message, not cybercriminals. Not hackers. Not oppressive regimes. Not even us.

4. Mike Pence:

   For all the media fawning over the sister of the North Korean dictator, I think it’s important that every American knows who this person is and what she’s done, the sister of Kim Jong Un is a central pillar of the most tyrannical and oppressive regime on the planet, an evil family clique that brutalizes, subjugates, starves and imprisons its 25 million people.

5. Nancy Northup:

   If this oppressive law takes effect, it will decimate abortion access in Texas -- and that's exactly what it is designed to do, the state has put a bounty on the head of any person or entity who so much as gives a patient money for an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, before most people know they are pregnant. Worse, it will intimidate loved ones from providing support for fear of being sued.