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, words, words! They shut one off from the universe.
Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with
things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.