Associations to the word «Oppressive»
Noun
- Stillness
- Humidity
- Regime
- Taxation
- Feminist
- Cruel
- Heat
- Yoke
- Tyranny
- Oppression
- Thermometer
- Atmosphere
- Odour
- Dictatorship
- Desolation
- Imposition
- Silence
- Solitude
- Overthrow
- Peasantry
- Domination
- Tyrant
- Racism
- Loneliness
- Aristocracy
- Injustice
- Weather
- Burden
- Apartheid
- Gloom
- Heavy
- Bondage
- Revolt
- Peasant
- Breeze
- Dictator
- Compact
- Capitalism
- Emptiness
- Ideology
- Perspiration
- Enactment
- Liberation
- Colonialism
- Alienation
- Odor
- Grievance
- Rebellion
- Marxism
- Conformity
- Anarchist
- Tax
- Vapour
- Dread
- Ruler
- Sexuality
- Uprising
- Ottoman
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
OPPRESSIVE, adjective. Burdensome or difficult to bear.
OPPRESSIVE, adjective. Tyrannical or exercising unjust power.
OPPRESSIVE, adjective. Weighing heavily on the spirit; intense, or overwhelming
Dictionary definition
OPPRESSIVE, adjective. Weighing heavily on the senses or spirit; "the atmosphere was oppressive"; "oppressive sorrows".
OPPRESSIVE, adjective. Marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior; "the oppressive government"; "oppressive laws"; "a tyrannical parent"; "tyrannous disregard of human rights".
Wise words
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?