oppressive

op·pres·sive  (-prsv)

adj.

1. Difficult to bear; burdensome: oppressive laws.

2. Exercising power arbitrarily and often unjustly; tyrannical.

3. Weighing heavily on the senses or spirit: oppressive weather. See Synonyms at burdensome.

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op·pressive·ly adv.

op·pressive·ness n.

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oppressive [əˈprɛsɪv]

adj

1. cruel, harsh, or tyrannical

2. heavy, constricting, or depressing

oppressively  adv

oppressiveness  n

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	oppressive - weighing heavily on the senses or spirit; "the atmosphere was oppressive"; "oppressive sorrows" heavy - marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness; "a heavy heart"; "a heavy schedule"; "heavy news"; "a heavy silence"; "heavy eyelids"
	2.	oppressive - marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior; "the oppressive government"; "oppressive laws"; "a tyrannical parent"; "tyrannous disregard of human rights" tyrannical, tyrannous domineering - tending to domineer

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oppressive

adjective

1. tyrannical, severe, harsh, heavy, overwhelming, cruel, brutal, authoritarian, unjust, repressive, Draconian, autocratic, inhuman, dictatorial, coercive, imperious, domineering, overbearing, burdensome, despotic, high-handed, peremptory, overweening, tyrannous The new laws will be as oppressive as those they replace.
tyrannical just, soft, gentle, humane, lenient, merciful, propitious

2. stifling, close, heavy, sticky, overpowering, suffocating, stuffy, humid, torrid, sultry, airless, muggy The oppressive afternoon heat had quite tired him out.

3. overwhelming, crushing, devastating, towering, intolerable, overpowering, unbearable An oppressive sense of sadness weighed upon him.

Translations

oppressive [əˈpresɪv] ADJ

1. (= unjust) [regime, law, system] → opresivo; [tax] → gravoso

2. (= stifling) [heat, air, atmosphere] → sofocante, agobiante; [mood, feeling, silence] → opresivo, agobiante
the little room was oppressive → la pequeña habitación resultaba opresiva or agobiante

oppressive [əˈprɛsɪv] adj

[heat] → oppressant(e)
the oppressive heat of the plains → la chaleur oppressante des plaines

[rule, ruler, system] → oppressif/ive

oppressive

adj

(= tyrannical) regime, laws → repressiv; taxes → (er)drückend

(fig) → drückend; thought, mood → bedrückend; heat → drückend, schwül

oppressive [əˈprɛsɪv] adj (regime, system) → oppressivo/a (fig) (heat, thought) → opprimente