Oppressive

Adjective

 * 1) Burdensome or difficult to bear.
 * the oppressive tax laws made it difficult to start a small company
 * 1) Tyrannical or exercising unjust power.
 * the oppressive land-owners kept a grip on the labourers
 * 1) Weighing heavily on the spirit; intense, or overwhelming
 * will the oppressive heat of this summer weather never end?

Synonyms

 * humid, close

Adverbs for Oppressive
heavily; unbearably; intolerably; insufferably; dismally; cruelly; barbarously; bitterly; tyrannically; heartbreakingly; gallingly; domineeringly; savagely; brutally; inhumanly; drearily; ruthlessly; needlessly; systematically; incredibly;  incomparably; grievously; obnoxiously; shockingly; appallingly; frightfully; odiously; tragically.

Thesaurus
Herculean, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, agonizing, airless, annoying, arbitrary, arduous, aristocratic, arrogant, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, backbreaking, besetting, black, bleak, bossy, bothersome, breathless, breezeless, brutal, burdensome, close, crushing, cumbersome, cumbrous, demanding, depressant, depressing, depressive, despotic, dictatorial, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, dispiriting, distressing, dolorous, domineering, down, effortful, encumbering, exacting, exhausting, exigent, feudal, forced, grievous, grinding, grueling, hampering, hard-earned, hard-fought, harrowing, harsh, heavy, hefty, high-handed, humid, ill-ventilated, impedimental, impeding, impeditive, imperative, imperial, imperious, incumbent, intolerable, irksome, killing, labored, laborious, lordly, lumpish, magisterial, magistral, massive, masterful, miserable, monocratic, muggy, onerous, operose, overbearing, overburdensome, overpowering, overruling, overwhelming, painful, peremptory, plaguey, punishing, racking, repressive, severe, somber, sticky, stifling, strained, strenuous, strict, stuffy, suffocating, sultry, superincumbent, suppressive, taxing, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, tyrannical, tyrannous, unbearable, uncomfortable, unendurable, unvented, unventilated, unwieldy, uphill, vexatious, wearing, wearisome, wearying, weighty, windless, wretched

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Lingua Franca Nova opresante

Adjective
oppressive


 * 1) Feminine plural form of oppressivo