Synonyms:
oppressive, tyrannical, tyrannous
Meaning: marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior; "the oppressive government"; "oppressive laws"; "a tyrannical parent"; "tyrannous disregard of human rights"
Synonyms:
oppressive
Meaning: weighing heavily on the senses or spirit; "the atmosphere was oppressive"; "oppressive sorrows"
Usage examples
The air seemed heavy and oppressive.
The fear became oppressive, maddening.
An oppressive sense of strange sweet odor
"Quite oppressive," said the man next him.
His heart ached with a dull, unpleasant sensation, with a sort of oppressive emptiness.
The disorder began in the brain, by an oppressive pain accompanied or followed by fever.
The instability of all human things is familiar to me, to you it is new and oppressive.'
The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive.
The dangers of war were disregarded by his valor; but its fatigues were oppressive to his natural indolence.
The neighbourhood was a dreary one at that time; as oppressive, sad, and solitary by night, as any about London.