oppressive

Adjective Satellite

• weighing heavily on the senses or spirit
  • "the atmosphere was oppressive"
  • "oppressive sorrows"
• marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior
  • "the oppressive government"
  • "oppressive laws"

Adj

• Burdensome or difficult to bear.
• Tyrannical or exercising unjust power.
• Weighing heavily on the spirit; being quite intense, excessive or overwhelming.
• Hot and humid.

Examples

• The oppressive land-owners kept a grip on the labourers.
• The oppressive tax laws made it difficult to start a small company.
• Will the oppressive heat of summer never end?

Synonyms

tyrannical, tyrannous, airy, arrogant, authoritarian, autocratic, big-headed, biggity, blustery, boastful, bombastic, bossy, buggish, close, cocky, coercive, commanding, conceited, controlling, demanding, despotic, dictatorial, disdainful, dominant, domineering, egotistical, entitled, flatulent, flaunting, forceful, full of oneself, grandiose, grinding, hankty, harsh, haught, haughty, haut, heavy-handed, high and mighty, high-handed, high-hat, highfalutin, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, humid, imperious, inflated, insolent, iron-fisted, iron-handed, la-di-da, monocratic, obtrusive, oppressive, ostentatious, overbearing, overweening, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, priggish, puffed up, sanctimonious, self-important, snobbish, snooty, snotty, stout, strict, stuck up, supercilious, thrasonic, thrasonical, toploftical, toplofty, tumid, turgid, uppish, uppity, uppy, upstage, vain