oppressive (redirected from oppressively)

oppressive adjective afflictive, arduous, confining, cruel, crushing, cumbersome, cumbrous, depressing, detrimental, devouring, difficult, difficult to bear, distressing, engulfing, exacting, exhausting, fatiguing, formidable, galling, grievous, grinding, hard, harmful, harsh, heavy, hurtful, imperious, inhuman, iniquus, intolerable, laborious, onerous, operose, overbearing, overpowering, overwhelming, painful, pernicious, rigorous, severe, stifling, strenuous, suffocating, taxing, tiring, toilsome, troublesome, trying, tyrannical, unbearable, uncomfortable, unendurable, unreasonable, unyielding, vexatious, wearing, wearisome, weighty

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See also: bad, brutal, cruel, detrimental, dictatorial, disastrous, forcible, harsh, malignant, offensive, onerous, ponderous, severe, tyrannous