Words and phrases that have a meaning related to oppressive: (130 results)
Often used in the same context:
tyrannical, repressive, dictatorial, despotic, unjust, totalitarian, overbearing, authoritarian, illiberal, subjugated, stultifying, imperialistic, tyrannous, patriarchal, fascistic, feudal, inhuman, anachronistic, feudalistic, iniquitous, undemocratic, autocratic, oppressed, tyrannic, draconian, coercive, archaic, intolerable, exploitative, paternalistic, anarchical, unendurable, monarchical, odious, reactionary, brutal, unfree, dehumanizing, unbearable, pernicious, hegemonic, domineering, overweening, barbarous, exclusionist, colonialist, censorious, cruel, capitalistic, inhumane, inimical, exploitive, loathsome, orwellian, unreformable, hellish, inflexible, confiscatory, stalinist, unfriendly, uncivilized, obscurantist, militaristic, antidemocratic, suffocating, insufferable, equalitarian, retrogressive, enslaved, restrictive, rapacious, evil, opprobrious, unjustice, puritanical, onerous, unaccommodating, merciless, inegalitarian, decadent, burdensome, misogynous, imperial, arbitrary, wretched, bonapartist, ethnocentric, intolerant, dehumanised, inequitable, uncaring, nondemocratic, petite bourgeoisie, unpeaceful, totalistic, capitalist, colonial, subservient, barbaric, abominable, unforgiving, monarchal, discriminatory, neocolonial, permissive
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., autocrat, cyberpunk, dead hand, dead hand of the past, dead weight, despot, duvalier, francois duvalier, hang, mortmain, oppressively, papa doc, press, pressure, stifling, sulfurous, sulphurous, sultry, tyrant, weigh, weight, weigh down, weigh on
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— Nouns for oppressive: heat, conditions, system, measures, rule, government, regime, laws, silence, atmosphere, structures, more...
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