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
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.