be+oppressive
21oppressive — adjective 1) an oppressive dictatorship Syn: harsh, cruel, brutal, repressive, tyrannical, despotic, ruthless, merciless, pitiless 2) it was overcast and oppressive Syn: muggy, clos …
22oppressive — adj. Oppressive is used with these nouns: ↑atmosphere, ↑heat, ↑regime, ↑silence, ↑system …
23oppressive — /əˈprɛsɪv/ (say uh presiv) adjective 1. burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical, as a king, taxes, measures, etc. 2. causing discomfort because uncomfortably great, intense, elaborate, etc.: oppressive heat. 3. distressing or grievous, as… …
24oppressive — Synonyms and related words: Herculean, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, agonizing, airless, annoying, arbitrary, arduous, aristocratic, arrogant, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, backbreaking, besetting, black, bleak, bossy,… …
25oppressive — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. tyrannical, cruel, burdensome, onerous, grievous. See severity, badness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Difficult to bear] Syn. burdensome, onerous, harsh, tyrannical; see autocratic 1 , difficult 1 ,… …
26oppressive — op pres·sive || É™ presɪv adj. depressing; of depression; of oppression …
27oppressive heat — uncomfortably high temperatures …
28oppressive — adjective 1》 harsh and authoritarian. 2》 weighing heavily on the mind or spirits. 3》 (of weather) close and sultry. Derivatives oppressively adverb oppressiveness noun …
29oppressive — a. 1. Burdensome, severe. 2. Heavy, overwhelming, overpowering. 3. Tyrannical, cruel, severe, hard, rigorous, inhuman, grinding, galling. 4. Close, uncomfortable …
30oppressive — adj 1. burdensome, onerous, cumbersome; laborious, toilsome, arduous, operose, wearisome; grinding, wearing, exhausting, racking, trying; unbearable, unsufferable, unendurable, intolerable. 2. tyrannical, despotic, draconian, inquisitorial;… …
