oppressive (redirected from oppressiveness)

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