oppressive

[Op*pressĀ·ive]

Think of something crushing you, and you will understand what oppressive is. It can be something that crushes your spirit, like a bad relationship, or something that crushes you with its tyranny, like the oppressive rule of a dictator.

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Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law.

Adjective S.
marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior; "the oppressive government"; "oppressive laws"; "a tyrannical parent"; "tyrannous disregard of human rights"

Adjective S.
weighing heavily on the senses or spirit; "the atmosphere was oppressive"; "oppressive sorrows"


a.
Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law.

a.
Using oppression; tyrannical; as, oppressive authority or commands.

a.
Heavy; overpowering; hard to be borne; as, oppressive grief or woe.


Oppressive

Op*press"ive , a. [Cf. F. oppressif.] 1. Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law. Macaulay. 2. Using oppression; tyrannical; as, oppressive authority or commands. 3. Heavy; overpowering; hard to be borne; as, oppressive grief or woe.
To ease the soul of one oppressive weight.
-- Op*press"ive*ly, adv. -- Op*press"ive*ness, n.

Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law.

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Usage Examples

It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

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Other Usage Examples

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.

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